Building a Fence
On a brief stopover in Edmonton, I helped put up a fence, and I managed to enlist some labour from "Tomi". It wasn't free though, he was well fed and compensated with delicious home cooking.
I also stopped by KHz with Lobo and Tomi to listen to Derelict bust some vibes out. He couldn't handle the waves of groupies and we had to escort him out to take refuge at "Happy Family", a delicious late night Chinese eatery downtown.
Boy is digging in clay with a manual auger ever hard work! It's also great exercise...
Also, since I looked like such a great Mennonite, I might not have to get a photo on my next driver's license! I'm going back to my commune tomorrow... I would show pics but I think that it may be forbidden.
Horrifying Zombie State
On the run up to the executive briefing for a major grocery company, I found myself working 13-16 hour days. That included working over the weekend, and driving back to Pleasanton from SF in the wee hours of the morning.
I arrived at the Pleasanton Hilton just in time to get
some sleep before waking up Monday to work more than 30 hours in a row
without any sleep. You may have seen 28 days later, or be thinking about watching 28 weeks later. Well let me tell you that while both of those are scary, 28 hours later isn't much better.
My coworker and I found ourselves playing chicken with the negative productivity zone, and occasionally we would break out into giddy laughter over something mundane like the "don't rock the pop machine" sticker. I'm not sure what my manager thought of all that, but he managed to retain his composure and let us get it out of our system. We were all huddled around a tiny desk in my manager's hotel room, my coworker and I having wheeled the chairs from our rooms over.
It was intense, and while a good bonding experience (comrade-in-arms), it was not something I would like to re-experience immediately.
In the end we were very successful, and it felt rewarding, but now I'm in San Jose (
just ate lunch here at Don Don) doing another customer pre-sales educational activity. This time I will be explaining our programming model and how you can expose pieces using web-services.
Hopefully I eventually find my way back home. I ran out of clean clothing a week or two ago.
EDIT: Just ate supper with Dalban, we went to
Gooyi Gooyi, and had the best marinated korean bbq I've eaten in a long time. Tomorrow I get a ride to Cupertino to sell my wares.
Labels: business trip, California
Back in San Francisco - Westin St. Francis
I find myself in San Francisco again, continuing my travels around California. Now I'm staying at the "Westin St. Francis", the oldest hotel in SF. I'm staying in the historic wing, which means that everything is old. In some ways it is cool because the hallways and doors look like something out of an old 1930s detective movie. In other ways it is annoying because the hallways smell like mothballs.
It is quite obvious that the place is pricey, and I wouldn't be staying there on my own dime. I recommend dropping by for coffee though.
Labels: business trip, California, San Francisco
Hollywood - Happy Madison
Here you can see the Happy Madison offices for Adam Sandler, and his sweet ride.
Labels: business trip, California, Los Angeles
On a brief stopover in Edmonton, I helped put up a fence, and I managed to enlist some labour from "Tomi". It wasn't free though, he was well fed and compensated with delicious home cooking.
