Voyage Return: Vandalized
Recall in my earlier post this week, I illuminated some of the friction points which had emerged during my coverage of the Mobile Web Congress in Barcelona. 
I thought I had put all my problems behind me when at 04:15 am on Friday when I was departing, serendipity played it’s hand while I walked out of my apartment to run into a Japanese fellow getting into a cab with an MWC knapsack. He invited me to share it to the airport, then proceeded to pay it all since he was a journalist covering the event. Great start to the day and time to bury the past week. Alas, by the day was over the Yang had overpowered the brief Ying. When I picked up my garment bag at IAD (Washington DC-Dulles) a locked compartment had been torn open and clothes, files, and my CardScan device had been pinched.
When I was in high school in Rocky River, Ohio, I was a middle distance runner on the track team competing in the mile and half mile run. I'm thankful for all those painful days running and developing a mindset of compartementalizing pain and anguish. I drew deeply on those experiences the last few days--physically given the venue is every bit a mile plus long, and elevates about 300 feet from the entrance to the palace above the exhibition areas (8 of them), and having sharp elbows in a crowd is a distinct advantage--and emotionally to just bury the barriers in my mind, and go off to execute on the day's activities. Now at 4:20 am (jet lag folks) from the perspecitve of my corner office aery, the trip was much better than last year and was quite productive.
I'll write more over the next few days.
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