18 February 2006

Lost in the wheels of confusion.


Sitting in the airport, Detroit. Just flew in from Belgium and are my arms tired, ha ha.

Finally completed the around the world trip, lots of flights, lots of eating out, lots of drinking, not bad for awhile, but not good for a long time either.

So here is the surprise of the day, my flight from Detroit to MBS is delayed, probably will get cancelled soon, I will be pissed if it does, I could have driven home, but, that's the way it goes.

I am really looking forward to seeing my family again, it has been too long. Next week we go to Disney World and then I have another business trip to Japan in March.

Had a good trip, met lots of new people, and made a lot of good progress on the project. Alsohad a discussion with a few people about next jobs, could be sooner than later, but we'll see...

Had an interesting evening in Brussels, I was tired and ready to come home, so I stayed at a hotel near the airport and ate dinner in the hotel bar, it was fine, additionally I had the great pleasure of drinking lots of good Belgian Beer,kind of remember going up to the room and passing out, kind of...

I'll insert a picture of Japan for you to marvel at

03 February 2006

These dogs are curled up in a little ball.


What is on this weekend? It's colder than shit here, the wind is blowing through the windows of the hotel. Google says it's 7 F here, with the wind chill, it is colder than that by quite a bit, but they don't report wind chill in Korea.

Got here Wednesday evening after a long flight, from Minny apple less through Tokyo.
Jet lag is tough to deal with, Seoul is 14 hrs ahead of home time. Screws up my sleeping and my appetite, typically don't eat dinner for 3-4 days after arrival. Yesterday I had all day meetings with HR for Asia in the business, really nice person, great ideas it was excellent to meet with him. Then I walked back to the hotel and had a couple of Korean beers, and sampled the potato wedges and calimari rings off the "wonder hour" spread, came back up to the room, and watched a little football on the telly and went to sleep. Another problem with the trip is you cannot get a real good night of sleep, I think I woke up 5 times last night, had a hard time falling back to sleep every time, but I did sleep until 6 am, yesterday it was 5 am, so I am getting close to turning the body clock round.

My team starts arriving today, should be very good to start seeing everyone.

The entire block is hotels and offices, I heard yesterday that most days the population of this city block is higher than Midland County, pretty cool.

I'll attach a picture I took of Seoul from my hotel room, I should get out and look around a bit more today and tomorrow. I also need to do some shopping for souvenirs for my children and wife.

I am going to get up and around now, get a work out, clean up and have breakfast. You know I love hearing from you so keep the threats coming.

PO Monte