A tour of my last hotel room on this trip. Slightly dark, but I'm happier in this one :¬)
For another much nicer hotel room tour see Garr Reynold's Presentation Zen blog post about his stay at the Ritz-Carlton Tokyo. Ever so slightly outclasses my video for content and quality.
Basically people get to make their point, their pitch, their whatever, in the time that it takes for an automated slides presentation to move through 15 slides allowing a strict twenty seconds per slide. You see the clock counting down from 20 in the bottom right hand corner of the slide as soon as it appears...
Here is a tour of my room in Cuijk as requested by my best girls.
Love you both (and the little guy!) xxx
When I arrived on Sunday night in Venray, exhausted after a long flight, (thought not as tired as the guy sitting next to me on the plane who'd been traveling 24 hrs from Texas to Dusseldorf), I was told that their was no booking for me. I did manage to get the last room they had (the guy after me at the desk was turned away!), but only for two nights.
So today I'm moving. I managed to get a room twenty minutes drive down the road at Cuijk. However, this is only for two nights. I have to make further arrangements for Thursday! Bit annoying to say the least. Traveling for business is hard enough for a week without having to figure out where your going to sleep every night. A consistent place to stay does wonders for a professional attitude whilst working.
I am on the road again. Back in Venray, Netherlands visiting my colleagues. Maybe off to Switzerland midweek.
I don't really like going away. Always though it would be fun to travel for business a little. But for me it's a real struggle. I hate leaving the family to travel to work, never mind for a week. The little guy gets all quiet and starts frowning and sucking his fingers.
Joy said to me yesterday as she was unfolding the plastic crate in a very business like manner not unlike her mother, "What are you doing in the Netherlands?". I told her I was showing some people how work some software. After a moments thought she asked, "Can't they do that themselves?"
Aye, there's the rub...
Hot news for Segway/Arrested Development fans: a Long Beach cop riding a Segway captured 3 car thieves driving a stolen Merc. That's right, the 12.5 mph top speed vehicle used Police pursuit techniques to force the perps to finally abandon the car and enable capture by the officer.
Paves the way for an odd sort of vigilante. Knight Seg! Seg-Wolf!
Shame we live in the middle of the country. I'd love to take advantage of one of these babies.
Full Story on the Reg (and thanks to GadgetLab for the link)
Here's an old link about the sale of GOBs Segway.
We had lunch with some friends yesterday in their garden with their dog. We were really taken with Corrie as she was a beautiful dog. It really reminded us that we would love a dog. I love the shot of this mutt from Guy Kawasaki's blog. The only problem is that we just don't really have the room for a dog at the moment. We live in a great area for them but I keep thinking the house is just too small that it wouldn't be fair on the dog or the neighbours...
Yes, we have a new car. A NEW new car. Amazing! Never thought we would be able to do it but we have. It's a shiny new model Kia Carens. We are chuffed to bits with it and are looking forward to a bit more visiting to friends and family in it. We always had very old cars so it is lovely to buy something brand new and be absolutely overwhelmed by the comfort and ease of driving.
Much more on it to come, but in the meantime here are some pictures:
