"USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population." - David Letterman

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The editor at USAToday.com has the weekend off.
"Abuse Case Sheds Important Lessons"

I know I should have listened to NPR or the classical music station but sometimes it's not about the higher order of things. Some days it's about workin' the groove.
Pam left for work at 6:30 and shortly thereafter I rolled Ilsa out into the driveway where I'd have more room and better light. Cranked up the garage stereo as loud as I thought I could get away with here in the land of nearly-deads and dialed in the 70's, 80's and 90's station.
Spent the next three hours working on the wiring, routing and connecting almost everything in the front left corner. Every wire in the car is getting replaced with a factory correct set, color coded just like the originals. It's tedious work and I won't know if I got everything right until the first time I fire it up. The most likely source of trouble will be ground connections, which in most cases happens through the screw or bolt that mounts a particular item to the body. The paint job can prevent good contact. We'll see. Another couple of hours and I should have that part of the restoration done.

I've been working on my Seattle presentation of and on throughout the day for about a week. I realized yesterday that I have too much content for the time allotted, which leaves me two options. I can remove some of that content or talk really fast. I think I have to go with the latter.
I always feel better when I have good pacing, when I move along briskly. I think it keeps people's minds engaged. I'd rather have them struggling to keep up than mentally wandering off because they have spare time in their head.
The fine line gets crossed when they can't keep up, when the content is too new or too complex for them to process at my rate of travel.
Normally I can tell by body language - by facial expressions and subtle things like snoring. But there will be enough people in this large room that it will be difficult to read those signals. If I'm burning through the time allotted I can usually edit on the fly, but this presentation is backed up with a Keynote presentation (the Mac equivalent to Power Point) with lots of slides. How do you skip over content when you have to work through slides sequentially?

I've got a 25 hour drive between here and Seattle to run through it in my head, and ten days before making that drive. That should allow time to figure things out.