Next on the list:
Find those folks who didnt show up and/or didn't turn on the equipment. THere seemed to be a lot of them this morning.

I have to check on the other room, the one located a floor below. I dash off to the elevator and punch the button. I feel a little silly, thinking I should have just taken the stairs. Just as I start to try to think about where the stairs even are, the elevator opens, and I jump in.

It's the wrong elevator. I figure that out when the doors close and I drop fast to the ground floor.

So I rush out, get on the RIGHT elevator, and move into the next room.

My cell rings again: "we don't like the conference room we are connected to. We want to move to another one."

Fine, okay, just tell me which one.

*Ring*

"Um? hello? I think I'm supposed to do something with the video?"

"Yes, you are, actually. Would you mind going to the room that you were supposed to be in a half hour ago and turning on the equiment? Thaaaaannnkkksss.."

"Half an hour? I can't do that...I turned the TV on..."

"Yes, but you do need to turn on the actual video conference equipment. Do you know how to do that?"

"I guess..."

"Okay, why don't you do that, and I'll talk about showing up for the half-hour set up later..Okay? GOOoood."

Now they are set up, rush back upstairs, get that one set up. Oh look, the main speaker is completely blocked by a chair positioned in front of the camera. But before I can tell him, the introducer guy starts in:
"Okay, let's get started already..."

when he pauses, I have to jump in.

"Hello, this is Murphy Horner. I'm the Video Conference Administrator. Could the persons in Silicon Valley just step around the table and move the chairs directly in front of them and the camera? I'm sure the folks in this conference would prefer to see more of you, and less of the chairs. Thank you."

They were good sports, they moved the chairs.

Shwew.

Thank god.

I'm finally set up.

I walk downstairs, very slowly, waiting for the adrenaline to seep out of my body.

Yikes.

What a morning!

I'm gonna eat my yogurt now.