(Yes, I speak in airport IDENTs, leave me alone!)

This is not the post about our local SQL Saturday that I wanted you to read, nor is it the one that I wanted to write. I’m barely even getting to write and post this within the week that I intended to. Alas, sometimes we have to do things we don’t want to do. Yay, being a grown-up!

The Plan

Pretty much: See what Tammy wrote. We were going to have some #sqlfamily out on Thursday for dinner, do the usual Friday pre-SQL Saturday things (Speaker Dinner, etc), then on Saturday, Tammy and I were going to co-present a session targeted at accidental or otherwise new-to-SQL Server folks. This was going to be the third time she’s presented at a SQL Saturday, and was going to be my first time speaking.

Although as of last weekend, I was horribly nervous about this already and still feverishly working to get all of the details of my part of the session together, I was really looking forward to this. It was going to be a nice way for me to present for the first time, as I could rely on Tammy’s experience doing this at SQL Saturdays and the internal training she has been doing at her company. Hopefully after this, I’d have some confidence and would be able to start doing something on my own. You know; theoretically…

That WAS the Plan

As I have mentioned before, Tammy’s Grandma had been in the hospital for a couple of months now, recovering from heart surgery. Although there had been some stretches of good days (some really good), she passed last weekend. It wasn’t necessarily unexpected, but it was somewhat sudden. Dealing and coping with that wouldn’t have affected the plan very much, except Tammy’s brother & new wife were still on their honeymoon, and wouldn’t be back until middle of this week. With services delayed until late in the week, we realized that having that on Friday just wasn’t going to fit with speaking on Saturday very well.

Unfortunately, we had to cancel our speaking slot in Nashville. And, just about everything else, for that matter. I still feel really bad about having to do this to the local chapter leaders. I feel bad that it was our local chapter that this happened to! I also hated that we had to cancel what was going to be my first time speaking; now I’m probably going to be cursed 😉 . I know that this is one of those things that comes up nothing can really be done about it, but it doesn’t mean I have to be happy about it. Last weekend I commented that I was about every emotion but “happy” about the entire thing.

But it’s OK. Things are better for Grandma now. We’re hoping to be able to make it back into town to see our Nerd Family at/after the after party tonight. I feel like a bit of a heel for showing up to the party after not speaking at the event, but we won’t eat any of your food 😀 .

Now…

So, today, Saturday, SQL Saturday 145 is in-progress, and when this posts, we’re likely in the car somewhere along US 31 or I-65 (hopefully actually moving and not stopped by a cop 😉 ). Not sure how many people will see this before tonight, but we hope to see some of you then.

We’re sorry, we’ll see y’all soon, and hope you don’t hate us now.