OMG so beat - maybe cumulative 8hr sleep in last 5ish days.
Event went well but not the way expected. got out (between pre and post production) 900 handouts on Frederick Douglass with my name on it.
People just didn't show. The only loss was on the money for the banquet room, which was not too bad. everything else was pure positive. I am getting a personal endorsement from Lenny McAllister, and Kevin Daniels directed me to seek the endorsement of the Frederick Douglass Foundation, which I will probably get.
We picked up a few stragglers around the event space and really turned them on to the Constitution. I got to conflab in triangle between Lenny and Kevin from 6:30 PM until 3AM and then again from 7AM until 9:30AM.
The materials was no loss, because the reception was through the roof (even if people didn't show) the rooms were no loss because I got 10x the value back from the conference. The food was no loss because it was my contribution to the GOP picnic thing today.
The experience was priceless. I have never (and I mean NEVER) set up an event before, and now I actually know what I am doing and what to expect.
It turns out that both Lenny and Kevin have had the same experience as I did trying to set up such events, so they were not even a little upset.
Turns out to be a pretty big net positive even if there wasn't a direct audience.
More good came from this than I even said but I am so beat.
I am meeting Adam Kokesh in Raleigh tomorrow afternoon, and then on Monday doing a 70 piece signbomb. Then I'll basically rest up until RonPaulHawaii blows into town, and I know from experience in SC 2008 what kind of energy he has, and it's infectious, so from then to November It'll be non-stop dawn past dusk.