 Hi, this is Mitch Mitchell and I did put up a video yesterday, but I put it up earlier and I decided to do a second Video to talk about my last two full days in San Diego where I still am. I'm still at the Manchester Grand Hyatt and Geez what time is it? It is 956 which means it's almost 10 o'clock which means it'd be 1 a.m.. At home if I was at home But I've already done my little trek for the night and I'm in the room for the rest of the night I go home tomorrow, and I'm ready to go home, but I thought I would at least talk a little bit about You know my kind of impressions of the bits of San Diego that I've seen and this conference and Unfortunately, this is the best light. I'm getting in here yesterday. The Sun was still out So I it was a little brighter, but it's nighttime now I got this little light that's just enough so that I can see the keys if I want to use the keyboard on the laptop And I've got a light over here in the corner that's kind of muted But without that light you couldn't see me at all and let's face the fact here Why would a black man need to do a video if you can't see them at all? Don't even answer So I When last we talked I think I mentioned that I had gone down and I had had this ice cream And I had some shepherd's pie and whatever so let's pick this up with Wednesday morning then Wednesday morning I basically went to the board meeting. I'm an organization we call it a ham, but it's the American Association of Healthcare Administrative Management and This is our annual Institute National Institute and you get anywhere between 450 and 500 people who show up And we always have it in kind of a large hotel because we have the vendors who sponsor it They get to set up their booths and you walk around and this year we had 73 a couple years ago we actually had over a hundred but this time we had 73 and So, you know, you have to have it in a place that has a room big enough to do that as well as a room big enough to handle 450 people if they all show up for That we do some presentations and we have some speakers You know some keynote speakers. So anyway, we started out with the board board room and The board meeting and that went okay. I mean they had fake eggs Let's just tell like it is they had some fake eggs, but they had bacon and So I eat some fake eggs and bacon. There was some kind of weird sausage this real fat thick sausage something like country apple or something like that it was nasty and Here I was I'm a soda drink in the morning. I've never drank coffee Okay, I did for maybe a week when I was 16 years old ended up hating it But I don't drink coffee. I drink soda. They never have soda So I went back down to the lobby and I bought two bottles of soda It was 750 for two lousy bottles of soda at home. That would have been two 12 packs So what are you gonna do? But you know so I had that and the meeting went pretty well I'd have to say but it turned out there was one guy in the room Who supposedly had a Fitbit on and I had a chance at getting a charger So I thought he left the meeting early. He was on the phone I was gonna wait till after the meeting he left early and I didn't notice that he had left And I've never seen him again. I know he's in this town somewhere, but I haven't seen him in anything I haven't seen him at either of the keynote conferences. I've not seen him down in the vendors boot nothing I didn't even see him at the dinner tonight So so much for that I'll get to go home and charge it when I get home and I also have to buy medication because I ran out of my Medication, I don't know if I mentioned that I actually still have my insulin But I don't have much left, but this is enough that you can't really see it But this is enough to get me tonight shot and my two shots tomorrow, and I'll have to buy more on Saturday But my pills I'd run out of my pills Actually Sunday So it is what it is. So anyway, then we had The luncheon well actually they had a luncheon and I didn't get to go to that one because it's for a specific group of people So I ate in the hotel because I wanted to stay close enough so that I could go to see the Award ceremony as well as the first keynote speaker. So I ate in the hotel lounge They have kind of like a sports pub if you will and all they had was some hamburgers, but they had something called short ribs I'm not necessarily a big fan, but you know what? I didn't want a hamburger. So I had the short ribs That was twenty one dollars worth of something that shouldn't have been twenty one dollars worth. I mean just say that Yeah, it's tasty enough. I guess but you know it really wasn't a whole lot of food, but that was twenty one dollars Keep your hands on your hats because there will be more stuff. So anyway We I go to the thing they give out chapter awards and a couple of individual visual words And then we had a speaker named dr. Jack Singer and he's kind of a sports psychologist I'd never heard of the guy, but he was pretty good. I have to give him credit for that But I got distracted at one point. This is my fault and I think this is kind of intriguing I got into of all things a Twitter battle and I got into this battle that I didn't even know was going to be a battle one of my You know online friends from home from Syracuse had put something up talking about this thing called Gamergate Now I've heard some people talk mention it But no one has ever said what it was and she had put up a link saying what it was So I'm reading this thing and one of the things that it was talking about was how There's a couple of women who have objected to some of these gamer things because you know They say that they're against women or whatever and you know what they gotta tell these truth There's some of them that are I don't know about all of them But I've seen some of the things on TV. I'm not a gamer I don't play the games and I think you know some of them are pretty rough about women But I've also seen the other side which says well the game is geared towards these younger men or whatever I don't know that that that's an excuse, but it is what it is So they talked about how these women have been harassed and there's been death threats And this followed up a story that I had read earlier in the day or maybe Tuesday night Talking about some woman who was going to speak at some university and the university got these letters from some nut casing And he was gonna basically kill everybody around as many people as he could if they let her talk What is that? That's ridiculous. So anyway, my friend put this thing up. I read the story. I Basically skipped most of the stuff. I got a little insight But you know didn't care about that but I didn't care about the thing about women being threatened with their lives So I resured the thing and then a couple of people got on there And they just wanted to correct about the story And so I said the only thing I cared about was women being attacked. Well, they didn't believe it And so they start trying to attack me Well, you know, I don't back down from a lot of stuff. So I didn't back down I got sarcastic first one of them called me a derogatory name, you know a dirty word, whatever I didn't like it. So I kind of went after them and then There was two of them and one of them said no one called you anything I'm sorry. I said go back and look at what the person said and so the person went back So, okay. Yes, you're right that person did say something but you said something. Okay What did I say? Tell me what I said point to something I said And he said would you ignored what I said? No, I didn't if you read what I said I said that you can't excuse any of the violence that's being directed towards women who are saying something You cannot have death threats going against people because they disagree with you. That's just stupid Well, we actually ended up having a conversation Doesn't happen often on Twitter, but it turned into a full conversation and by the end of the thing We have resolved the difference. I said, okay Understand, I'm not a gamer But I read this story because I wanted to find out what this was and it talked about women being threatened with death And I said that's really the only thing I care about. I'm not a gamer and then they got around They thought I was just Dismissing everything else and saying that they were the ones causing it which I didn't say so by the end One of them apologized the other one said yes I can actually see where it is and said thank you for at least talking to us about this because people don't always Want to talk to us That's the point of communications and it worked out. Well, so, you know, basically two young people and myself How I got into it, you know, it's really odd But that's how how it happens people sometimes react to things They think you said that you didn't say and I could have just kind of let it go and whatever But you know what they were angry and I got a little angry, but I handled it in a different way So really it was great communication. So anyway, we get through all that And then we have the thing where you know, I get to come back to the room really quick And then I go back because they what they have is they have a first timers Kind of get together and if you're a board member, they'd like you to come down and meet first timers I'm a board member a chapter president So I had to go meet some people and they wanted me to meet this one guy who's from New York Who I had never met before so we talked for a while and it turns out he's from Westchester County And I've worked in Westchester County So we did talk a little bit about that and that was cool and then we went to what they call that They call it exhibition hall, which is where all the vendors set up So I Shmoos I went through talked a whole lot of the vendors got some candy didn't get a bunch because they didn't have a lot of candy Got some chachkies and you know different things like that I got a dog and you know a stuffed dog of some kind and You know that was pretty much that so that ended and While I was there someone asked me if I would like to be invited to a party later on I Don't know what kind of party. This is what we're gonna be raising money for make-a-wish Foundation I'm a charitable kind of guy. So it's okay fine. So they put this purple thing on my oh here we go They put this on my wrist. They said this is your ticket to get in if you're wearing this then the guy will let you in So It was supposed to be at the hard rock. This is what they said. It's at the hard rock I know where that is cuz I passed it the night before when I was walking looking for something to eat So add a little while I go and I walk all the way to the hard rock now Let me mention this glad I didn't mention this before that. I Was late getting to the new members reception because I had some time to kill and I wanted to go see the Midway They have a Aircraft carrier actually out here on the bay. It's the Midway It's not the original Midway because that got sunk in the war But they created another one and they put this thing together It's the Midway and now it's been decommissioned and sitting out there and they've got a couple of planes on and I said Oh, I gotta go see this it's so cool So I walked over there and it wasn't a long walk and I walked over there And I saw the aircraft carrier and have you ever seen that picture of the soldier kissing the woman in the streets of New York? You know where they come up and turns out they didn't know each other Today that would be harassment But you know it was an iconic picture what turns out they name that unconditional surrender and they have a statue like a 30-foot statue of that They're next to the aircraft carrier, which is really cool And they also had in this exhibit of Bob Hope talking to the soldiers You know some of you young people have no idea who Bob Hope was but Bob Hope Basically went to all the wars Entertaining soldiers he would take these movie starlets with him and singers and dancers and whatever and they would just put on shows for soldiers Who are on the front lines? It was just amazing bravery for this guy So anyway, they had a tribute to him and they had some of his routines being played out And I thought that was kind of cool, too. I mentioned that because when I went back to the hotel I did what most guys do which is I decided to take a different route because I thought it would be quicker Got lost So I made it back to the hotel 15 minutes later Then I was supposed to had to come up to the room wash up quickly So I was a little late, but who cares so I throw that in because now it's later I'm ready to go to the hard rock So I get out there and I start walking and my legs are killing me. They just hurt really really bad and So God I gotta make it there So I make it to the hard rock cafe and I look in and I don't see hardly anybody So I go in guys. Oh, welcome. I said, yeah, hi. I've got my little purple thing here I'm looking for my party of people. He says no not here. Maybe you mean the hard rock hotel There's a hard rock hotel. It's yeah, so how far is that? He says a little maybe 10 to 15 minute walk Oh, no What are you gonna do? So I walked more Luckily, it was just a straight walk. I had to stop at a whole bunch of lights and you know, once I get going I'm usually pretty good. I'm listening to my Harry Potter book. Yeah, I'm listening to my Harry Potter book Don't judge me I'm listening to my Harry Potter book while I'm walking and you know people just getting on my nerve And I finally make it to the hard rock hotel I go inside the guy tells me up your it's up on the fourth floor. I go up to the fourth floor I get out. There's a party going on. Hey, I Said, okay, you guys have food, right? No, we only have dessert Okay, I haven't eaten since noon. I need food So they said well go downstairs the cafe is still open. I said what cafe said what is a hard rock cafe? It's right downstairs Turns out there's a cafe. They don't call it hard rock cafe. It's called MJs. I don't know why But they were playing music from the 70s and 80s. I was fine. There was nobody in there But they were still serving food. So I went in bought an omelette, you know soda ate most of the omelette Didn't eat it all because I said, well, there's dessert upstairs So now I go back to the party and a guy guy who calls himself a performance artist performance artist And what he basically is he's an artist. He's Not quite a painter But he's an artist and what he's got is he's got his well He's got paints, but he's not really like painting with a brush or whatever and he did these paintings He did one of the Rolling Stones Oh, it was like four corners of Rolling Stones, which is really really cool And I took a picture of it and then he did one of the Beatles and he did the Rolling Stones in about 22 minutes And he did the Beatles in about the same length of time and they auctioned them off For people and you you bought tickets and They were looking for at least $20 donations. You got 20 tickets So I bought 20 tickets didn't come close to winning anything. So anyhow, I'm up there and I go over to Their desserts and these little petty four things. I hate pedophore things. They're just always nasty I got one. I did taste it. It was nasty. I'm thinking Really, this is dessert. I Went downstairs ate a omelet that wasn't necessarily great. It was okay, but you know, it wasn't great So that I could come up and try to eat this Still it was a party I talked to a couple of people But in general I basically went over and I sat down and I just kind of chilled because you know what my feet hurt My legs hurt and I was tired because at home By the time it was time to leave it would have been 2 30 in the morning. Oh Here's the thing There's a lot of homeless in the area downtown area of San Diego It's it's very interesting in the fact that you got these super high-class hotels You have these buildings where people are paying in essence a million dollars a year to rent These super huge apartments downtown They have all these downtown stores and restaurants the gaslight area and supposedly 125 restaurants There's tons of restaurants and little parties and little bar things or whatever things that overall it's not my style But still, you know, they have all this stuff, but they also have all these homeless people Some of them were begging for money. Some of them were just sleeping right in the middle of a sidewalk Just wherever you can get it I'm not really used to kind of seeing that kind of thing And it's just so odd once again that you've got this kind of wealth and you've got this kind of poverty Right next to each other. I had to deal with that back in 2009 when I was working in Manhattan And it sounds odd to say that half a block away from Madison Square Garden and 7th Avenue where you've got all this Richness you had this mission where you have all the poor people who come and basically sleep wherever they can find a spot In front of the mission because when it opens at 6 30 in the morning, they get food What a weird contrast I think So anyway go to the party it's time to leave. I'm thinking oh god I'm gonna have to walk all the way back everything's hurting these two other ladies are living at the same time And there's this guy out there with a bike and they got these lights all on these bikes and they give people rides And so I asked the guy, okay, how much is he says for all three of you 20 bucks We decided to ride back so we all rode back on this thing and the guy was talking to us and my god Their leg muscles must be something strange because I'm not a small guy and one of the ladies with me wasn't small at all But there you go. He got us all back. He told us a few tales and stuff whatever fine and dandy we make it back and By 12 30 in the morning because I had to get on the computer to do something but now I'm ready to go to bed So now we get to this morning and I'm gonna try to tell this part quicker because this has already been 18 minutes we get to this morning and I know that the first keynote speaker is gonna be at 915 and I met the lady tonight the day before and she seemed really nice and I said, okay, you know, I want to see this So I said, you know what I'm gonna eat breakfast here in the hotel now, I'm gonna tell you something Don't do this. I'm not gonna say don't ever eat food in the hotel What I'm gonna say is ask people how much stuff is before you decide on it I knew they had a breakfast buffet in a different place. So I go over there So it's just one actually the lady says, so how many of you are there and I Just I just stared at her just oh is it just you and other two people looked at her said Yeah, we don't see the others and she said I gotta stop asking people that when it's only one person showing up So She sits me down and I go over to the buffet and I get my little bit of something I had to make me an omelet and I'm eating another omelet and I got a one of those little half of those little waffle wedges like a quarter of a waffle and it was tasty and everything It was okay And now it's like I don't eat big breakfasts anymore I shouldn't have paid for a breakfast buffet, but truthfully, I thought that's all they had So I tell the guy, you know, that's it. I'm done. Whatever. So he brings me the check It is $29 and of course I had to tip the guy I didn't tip them tons, but I had to tip him. So basically breakfast cost me $35 for an omelet and a waffle wedge What are you gonna do at least this time? I didn't have to buy extra soda because they had soda in there But still $35 So we had the second keynote presentation Nate lady named Cheryl Roush R-O-U-S-H and she was very good and I spelled it because her website is Cheryl Roush dot com very good very inspirational talking, you know about about mood and positivity and working with other people and such and Of course, she picked on me a little bit now, but it's fine because you know, this is what I do and she asked me Point blank. She says what helps you stay positive and I said and I've written this I put it in videos So y'all know I've said this I said that I figured we all get the choice To decide whether we want to be negative or positive and if I can be positive Then a lot of other people seem to be positive towards me and you know, it helps me feel better And it helps other people feel better as well So there you go Then the next presentation was this guy named der vell the devel dee veerl. I can't pronounce it He was from Franklin Covey and he did something talking about trust and you know how sometimes You can do certain things to get trust and how sometimes just never gonna get that trust back no matter what it is but maybe you can Keep it from getting worse than it is and we talked about Anthony Weiner He was a former congressman from New York who did some stupid stuff and then he ran for mayor and then when he people decided to look at him found that he was still doing the same stupid stuff and There you go. Probably won't ever hear from this guy again And unless we hear he's getting divorced or went to jail for being stupid So we had that presentation then it was time for lunch and lunch was just passable, you know more hotel food and then I decided to skip the next thing because I was just tired So I came up to the room and I just chilled after printing my ticket so I could go home in a while and then the final Presentation later named Judy vieze the easy ie and I've known her for years. I've seen her quite a few times She's spoken to my group in Syracuse and her son lives in Buffalo. So, you know, we she gave a presentation talking about conversations these days of what they call the small bite communications and it's talking basically about how Boomers and Millennials and Gen X all these people try to communicate with each other and you know, whether it's email or text messaging or even Video conferences and how things can get messed up or whatever and she gave some tips for how people can try to communicate some And what was funny is that her computer went down during the presentation and she says here I am talking about technology and the computer goes down I don't know how to fix it. And so they got someone in there and he fixed it. She said what happened. He says absolutely no idea So that's funny So then that was finally over. I got to come upstairs again and relax a little bit more and We had the what they call the president reception Which is still with all the vendors and I'm talking to these people. Let me tell you something Vendors are not stupid There are just so many attractive women who you sit there say do they really work for this company or Are they doing like the old computer shows and they're just finding pretty women? I found out last year that some of the companies actually just do that They hire some women just train them enough so that they can talk to someone But they don't really know anything about the company in this case It seemed that all the pretty women that I did talk to along with everyone else They all actually work for the company in some fashion and they all knew what they were talking about There you go Then we have the big dinner now my problem with the dinners has always been that they Redo the award ceremony that they do on the Wednesday before the first keynote speaker So this time I ate some food. It was okay. Not bad, but once again, they had those pedophores then they called this dessert I'm sorry, San Diego dessert is not pedophores dessert is cake or brownies maybe even ice cream Cobbler dessert is not pedophores. I got one. Anyway, it was nasty. I knew better So I ate my food. I was talking to this woman about blogging. She wants to be a blogger. All right This is what I talk about. So we were talking about blogging They start this awards thing a couple other people who are at our table wanted to hear their awards I'm thinking burnt you at the keynote yesterday. Did you miss this? So we go out no haul and we talk a little bit and I'm telling her about blogging and hosting and getting domain names And then she says well I better go back inside because my boss would probably be wondering if I'm in here talking whatever and you know I hate the word boss. I wrote a blog about that long time ago. I've never called anyone my boss Didn't like it when anyone called me their boss absolutely hate that term, but you know people use it There it is. So I said I'm not going back in matter of fact with what they put in there I'm going back and I'm getting ice cream at Giordelli again. So I came back to the room Didn't have my card key went back down to the lobby had them give me a new key came back up got in got my phone got my earphones and I walked once again all the way to Fifth Avenue just to get ice cream and Walk past some homeless people But it's a Thursday night Which means there's a lot more people out there a lot more the short black dresses and short white dresses and a whole lot of Legs and a whole lot of pretty and a whole lot of noise But I wanted ice cream and I got my ice cream and I enjoyed my ice cream and now I'm back in the room and There you go tomorrow morning. I will wake up. I will shower I will go downstairs and say get me a taxi and I will go to the airport and in Basically, 11 hours. I will be back in Syracuse so that I can have a couple days before I go do something else What a weird life, but this has been fun. I mean, I really have to tell you it's been fun It's interesting flying a different airline than what you used to it's interesting seeing how people interact with each other It's interesting how people interact with me I gotta tell you the truth one thing that happened that I thought was so cool is that when I was down there with the vendors One of this lady comes over to me and I don't know who she is she comes over to me and she says Mitch I just got to tell you I see your post sometimes show up on LinkedIn and every time I see your post I think they're absolutely wonderful And I always make sure I read everything you say and I agree with so much of what you say And I just think you're brilliant and I hope you continue writing and I just well Thank you and you love hearing that it's always a surprise but it's nice and That happens sometimes when I come down to conferences, you know, I gotta tell you the truth I've been coming. This is my 14th year out of 15 years and the powers that be Pretty much ignore me pretty much. There's one lady who's been nothing but nice to me And that's happened here in there, but in general, I'm I don't fit. I'm not a conformist I don't play the fake game and I hear that all the time and it sounds terrible, but y'all know what I mean I don't play that game But it's always interesting that someone has seen something that I've written on my blog or that has shown up in a magazine Or every once in a while someone has actually seen one of my videos and they say these nice things to me and That always makes me happy and it's surprising because sometimes you do these things and you don't think anyone is paying any attention whatsoever and it just shows you that there's always someone out there who appreciates something that you do and All it takes is a few fans a few people to come up to you and say I appreciate that and You know what one of these days I'm gonna do a video of appreciation And we'll see if any of those people watch it Okay, almost half hour. It's time to end it so I can get myself ready to go to bed I gotta pack all my stuff the rest of my stuff. I did some packing earlier But I'm ready to go home ready to go home. So this is Mitch Mitchell. This has been long It's been a story but two days in San Diego. I'm done ready to come home See y'all later Thanks for watching if you're watching if you didn't watch then I just talked to myself But at least I can watch it later on maybe 10 years from now. I real old and say Yes, I really made those videos right back then didn't yeah Bye