Diamond Notes

I have a confession to make.  I am struggling this afternoon.  For two or three weeks before the conference I had many things to do and managed to wear myself out.  Then, last Thursday, I jumped on a plane (for the second time in a week) and flew cross-country to come out here.  I then spent two days taking a look at Kickfire’s new technology.  Sunday night came around and the conference started (well, not officially, but it was good community dinner).  Oh, and I was working hard to get the latest issue of MySQL Magazine out  Tuesday.  The first two days for the most part I have been OK.  Then, because I was a bit run down, I went to bed fairly early last night (10 ‘ish).

I woke up at 5:00 AM.  Couldn’t go back to sleep. Now I am paying for it.  I haven’t blogged in the last two sessions simply because I don’t have the energy.  And in the last session (Baron’s great session on the Query Cache) I started dozing off at one point. Shhh…don’t tell him.  Oh wait, he will probably read this.  I couldn’t help it and it certainly wasn’t his fault.  He did a great job.

I have woken up a bit since then (the caffeine helps sometimes!!).  Now I am listening to Ann Harrison talk about Falcon and explain how it is quite a bit different than Innodb.  However, for the rest of the day I am going to skip blogging the sessions.  Too much concentration required.  My point to all this is that you shouldn’t go to the conference run down.  Get as much rest as you can.  We end up in information overload somewhat as it is so don’t hobble yourself by not resting up beforehand.