So I’ve been to Vegas before, but I always wanted to be out
there when they hold the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Every year electronics companies and
industry people from all over the world descend upon sin city to show off of
and check out all of the new technology that it is on the horizon. I’m talking everything from new TVS,
videogames, cars, all kinds of stuff!
All the new stuff gets demonstrated and prototypes are shown off, you
get to see stuff that may be coming out next week, or in 10 years, or sometimes
stuff that will never even actually be released at all. The convention is huge, and I’ve
followed it for years but never actually attempted to go.
As you may or may not know, for the past year and a half
I’ve been working different events and promotions for different companies. I pick up random work promoting
different stuff, it’s pretty fun and I can find work pretty much anywhere in
the U.S. for short periods of time, and for big conventions like CES there are
usually a ton of opportunities. I
had already flirted with the idea of working it last year and I knew I had some
friends doing it this year so I applied to a couple of things out there. I was kinda lazy and only applied for
like 2 things; of course I didn’t hear anything until after day 1 of CES was
already in the books. This was a Tuesday
night and they wanted me to come down to work weds-fri, but since there were no
more flights that night I had to tell them that I couldn’t do it unless I could
just work thurs-fri. And of course
they didn’t hit me back up until like 830pm on weds night. But I said what the hell? Let me check
flights really quick, sure enough there was another flight at 830 that night. I
told them that I had to contact my friend to see if I could crash in his hotel
room, and that I’d call them back when I knew. I told em if they find anyone else first, go ahead and hire him
or her. I successfully scrambled
to make arrangements and called back 20 minutes later, unfortunately they found
somebody else. But then I thought
about it for a minute, why not just go for fun and try to check out CES? I
literally stuffed my backpacked with a couple changes of close, and within 10
minutes I was off to the airport.
