The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive-Ass Slippers

Fri, 09 Dec 2005

White Christmas

Back in Ft Collins for the last part of my flying visit. It only took 15 minutes for a guy to arrive with a portable battery and jumper leads and get my car started so I was out of California in no time. I don't remember having the NRMA in Canberra turn up anytime sooner than an hour after calling. The plane out of San Jose was over an hour late, so I didn't get to the hotel until after midnight. I was a bit freaked out having to drive 60 miles in the snow and ice but it turned out OK. There were only a couple of places where there was snow covering the road and other drivers just zoomed along at 75mph anyway.

My boss neglected to mention that the temperature here would be below zero, and that's Fahrenheit not Celsius! Apparently people live quite happily in this weather. I am sure that I get a small dose of altitude sickness when first arriving as I get headaches and nausea on the plane in which lasts for half a day or so.

Wed, 07 Dec 2005

Do You Know the Way to San Jose

I'm in San Jose doing a conference and flying visit to see various people. To begin it was quite an exciting trip as I missed my international connection to San Francisco in Sydney but managed to get on the flight to Los Angeles an hour later. That turned out to be quite lucky as the San Francisco flight ended up being cancelled due to a malfunctioning air conditioner. Who knew that the inside of airplanes could get so hot?

The conference is interesting and well organised with lots of technical talks and people to meet and talk to. I have met a bunch of HP people who profess to be interested in WBEM - HP is well represented here.

To Ft Collins tomorrow after figuring out what to do with my rental car after discovering I left the lights on all last night and today. Luckily there is a rental car return at the hotel, so I may be able to get away with dumping the car here and catching a taxi to the airport.