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On the road (air?) again

richard — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:49:00 +0000

Well, it’s been a while, but I’m heading off on another little trip. Sydney for a couple of days of meetings, and then off to Bangkok for some training. I’d almost forgotten how hard it is to leave Bren and … Continue reading →

Airline pain

richard — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:56:00 +0000

I had to kill a few hours in terminal 4 at LAX today, so I went to the lounge to chill out. As American Airlines do, they reminded me on the way in to keep an eye on the monitors as they don’t make boarding announcements in the lounge.

Two problems with this:

The monitors are few and far between, so you have to keep walking from wherever you’ve managed to find a seat (not enough room there) so you can see what’s going on.
Half the time they don’t update the screens anyway! I kept checking my connection, the status never changed to “boarding”, yet all of a sudden I had people paging me to get on the plane.

Which brings us to the best bit: It doesn’t matter if they make a boarding call or not, just wait until they go looking for you and stroll down then.

Cold. Really cold!

richard — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 05:02:00 +0000

Seeing as it’s Sunday, and bright and sunny, I figured I’d go for a stroll down to the local shops for breakfast. I try to limit the amount of hotel food, and get out and about a little.

Big mistake. I got maybe 200 metres down the road before I had to call it off as a bad joke. It is so cold! Checking good ol’ weather.com, it’s currently -7c, but thanks to the wind chill it feels like -17c. Nice! The top is forecast to be -5c. It gets getter – the top for tomorrow is estimated to be -11c.

So, I’ll still go out for breakfast, but I’ve had to return for my car keys!

New job, new travels

richard — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 14:38:00 +0000

Finally started my new job on Feb 1. My first day was spent travelling to Boston to meet the team. What with time zone changes, it made for a very long day. So after one day in the office so far, it all looks good!

Time zone wise it’s a real pain. It is almost exactly totally wrong for talking to Bren and Campbell. For example, when it’s 5pm here, it’s 9am the next day back home. That works on the weekend, but it’s what with school and work it’s hopeless on week days.

Initial impressions of Massachusetts: Lovely countryside, but really cold! Looking forward to exploring a lot more. It’s MUCH better driving here than in LA, the traffic is nowhere near as chaotic.

Probably predictably, the camera is travelling with me. Photos from the trip can be found in our travel gallery at http://stocksfamily.smugmug.com/gallery/5172699_ft2mB.