Just landed in Orlando yesterday at 10AM, and we’re already half installed in the booth.  By the time I arrived at the scenic shop, our crews had already completed the custom cabinets and furniture for the install, as well as a huge sign frame that would attach to some recycled truss.  I worked quickly with Dennis and Colin to complete the wiring and assembly of the recessed lighting, hopefully enough to give us some decent ambient light on a mostly-dark show floor.  A bit of the old, a bit of the new, and we had a truck loaded down with all our goods, and six plasmas from partner NMR.

Roland and I headed over to the Convention Center only to find that for the first time since its inception, LDI would be held in the NEW portion of the Orange County Convention Center.  After finally finding the POV docks, we were unloading carpet, finding an electrician to get us a special pig-tail for our little power pagoda, and busy installing padding and carpet.  By the time we finished that, Nicolas was thru the marshalling yard and gear started to arrive about 4PM.  Colin joined us soon thereafter, and we started assembly of the large sign.

The pieces fit together after a bit of wrangling, and we attached the truss to a 550-lb base plate and soon had everything ready to go up.  I was designated the ropes guy (sometimes being a big guy has its advantages!) and we slowly but gracefully put the sign into the air.  We were out by 7, in time for Roland to see his son’s baseball team go undefeated for the season, Colin to get back home before he leaves today for a site survey in Chicago, and for Nicolas to head over to the new Hilton next door to do a strike of some scenic panels.  We go back today to finish the cabinet installations, and hopefully get the plasmas up and the programming working with the touch-screens.