Wicked Cool Stuff
Dominick Gallegos, Civil 3D Technical Marketing Manager for Autodesk, shares his unique perspective and ideas on the functionality and use of Civil 3D for a range of different project types.
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- posted 03/27/07 by Anthony Governanti International Travel – the ups and downs
- International Travel – the ups and downs
I’m sitting in a very nice Hotel in Shanghai, China as I write this post, and will get to the details of the “ups and downs” of this particular international trip. First I want to apologize for not getting a new post up here in a while. As you can imagine, I’m busier then a one-armed paper hanger at the moment as I transition from the technical marketing job to the regional sales job. Essentially I’m doing (or trying anyway) both jobs at the same time. Anyway, not a good excuse for lack of posts, if Lynn Allen can do it, I can!
Anyway, now onto the ups and downs, and we’ll start with the downs. To get to Shanghai, I had a set of flights that originated in Boston early Sunday morning, and a connection to Shanghai on a flight through San Francisco. All was going well until we got about two hours into the Shanghai flight, and a passenger noticed a piece of the fuselage hanging off of the right side engine – not good. After many trips by the captain back to through the cabin to take a look, and several passengers employing there digital cameras and zoom lenses, it was decided that we’d better turn back and land the plane while we still could.
Bottom line, 5 hours in the air, and I wound up right where I started, back in SFO. We were delayed till the next morning when they got a us a new plane and could take off again. Now I won’t mention any Airline names here, but it started with a “U” and ended with a “nited”. After several less then desirable experiences, I’ve started to doubt my allegiance to this corporation (I’ve been flying them pretty much exclusively for almost four years). This is yet another delayed flight due to maintenance or mechanical issues for me in a short span of time, and quite frankly, I’m fed up.
Anyway, that was the down, what about the up? Well I finally did arrive here in Shanghai, and I must say this is a pretty cool city. I haven’t seen much of it, but was able to take a small walking tour of the area around my hotel The Royal Meridian. What I’ve seen so far I like a lot. Also, I’m reunited (no pun intended for those paying attention) with the APAC AEs and sales team, whom I usually only get to see once a year, and this week should prove to be a blast. I’m here to do “train-the-trainer” classes on Civil 3D 2008, and despite loosing a day to travel woes, we should be able to cover some great new functionality, and of course share some laughs over some Tsing Toa beer in between.
I’ll try to post again from China before I leave on Saturday, then it’s off to Paris France for the EMEA Train the trainer event. Sounds luxurious I know, but I doubt I’ll get to do too much as I only have two days there to squeeze in 3 days worth of content. Anyway, once the whirl-wind global tour of the Da Govna show is completed, it’s onto the dark side of sales full time for me.
Cheers,
AG
PS - This is a landmark event - this 50th wicked cool stuff post. May not seem like much, but that's close to average of two posts a week. Not ground breaking, but I'm happy with it.