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It’s late. It was a long day. About all I can do is prune through the 80-some digital pics and come up with a smattering of marginally good ones. Pretty much the only one I really like is the one entitled “My Next Wallpaper.” And maybe the one labeled “Contrails.”

More photos.

The flight
The flight was pleasant and even though it claimed to be a direct flight, I did have a stop in Baltimore. I didn’t have to get up though… just sat and read while a new crowd of cattle people herded into their seats for Phoenix. After Phoenix, the plane continued to Burbank, CA.

I stashed several bags of crunchy snacks and trail mix in my carry on bag. That kept me going until I got to the destination whereupon I had… more crunchy snacks.

The rental car fiasco
Ok. My bad. I should have reserved one a couple days ago. I didn’t, so I walked from rental agency to rental agency looking in vain for one that wasn’t sold out. Another businessman was in my predicament and we were hunting together. Finally Advantage had some cars still in the lot and I picked one up there. Then there was another flyer I recognized, a friendly army brat, he was almost in the same situation. Even though he reserved a car, they were going to charge him $300 MORE on top of what he was quoted when he checked online! He was pretty pissed and left that rental agency–ended up behind me in line at Advantage. He was driving to Tucson, much further than I would be driving. When I got to the counter, the lady said they had such and such, and blah de blah, and also a Dodge Charger. I looked over my shoulder and said “You want the Charger?” He said, “At this point I’d take a Geo Metro, but sure!” So I took a Dodge Caliber (yay) and let him have the Charger.

The hotel
Pretty nice digs. Separate living room, separate kitchen, king size pilllow-top bed. Free wireless internet in each room… excellent. I could get used to this.

Huh, I thought I was tired. I guess not enough to drone on about day one of the big business trip. Tomorrow starts the process of testing what we’ll be doing over the weekend. Dismantling Novell from our corporate network. Stuff will break. People will get upset. It’s all good, he said sarcastically.

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