Ok, I'm back from Las Vegas. I had a good time and now it's time for the obligatory entry about the travel and the trip.
I still don't understand the shoe thing at the airport. For a while, you could wear sneakers through the metal detector and then you couldn't anymore. In Farmington's airport, I saw the guy in front of me go through with his shoes on so I figure it's all good now so I tried to go through with my shoes on. Au contraire. I had to take mine off. Apparently, they make exceptions for employees who, by being employees, are incorruptible and could never pose a security risk. Now, why are we putting another deadbolt on the front door when the back door is open?
I'm getting pretty familiar with the higher gate numbers of Concourse A of Denver International Airport. I know I can get a good cinnamon roll from Lefty's Colorado Trails Bar and Grille. I also don't understand the boarding order that Ted/United uses. I was in group 4, which is the last boarding group, both to and from Las Vegas but I was in rows 13 and 16 respectively. You can see the cabin layout of an Airbus A 320 here, the plane I was on both ways. Admittedly, I had an aisle seat both times so has United gone to some sort of sophisticated window, middle, aisle seating order style? If they have, it's not working at all. Also, our flight left over an hour late for Las Vegas because we had to change planes. I suppose that's better than not finding the oil leak in the number 2 engine. By the way, Terminal D of McCarran (Las Vegas) is also quite nice. It's much cleaner and better lit than the other three terminals.
One last travel note, why must those TSA shirt be somewhat see through? White dress shirts, if not made of a heavy enough material will be see through. It's that simple. So please, someone in the federal government, do something about this.
About Las Vegas. They put us up in the New York New York. It's a nice hotel, kind of like all the other major hotel and casino resorts on the strip. Now I've stayed at the Stardust, Tropicana, Monte Carlo, The Mirage, and New York New York. I think I stayed at the Circus Circus as well at some point. Tuesday afternoon was work, then we had dinner and fun in the evening. Wednesday was ostensibly a team building exercise that was a lot of fun. Thursday was meetings all day and then dinner and a show in the evening. Friday morning was more meetings and then we were done. The work aspects of the event were very worthwhile. A lot of very important managers were very interested in what we field engineers had to say and in showing us what was available to us. A lot of what was said related to what I wrote about on January 16 of this year. Communication is key to solving and preventing many of the problems we all experience at work.
At dinner on Thursday, we ate at the Chinese restaurant in the New York New York. The event organizer had some fortune cookies made with fake fortunes as a gag. Mine said, "Your family and friends still don't really understand what you do for a living." How apt.
2 comments:
You asked "why are we putting another deadbolt on the front door when the back door is open?" Duh. That how's your Tax $$ at work. The government assumes the average Joe is so stupid, he probably cannot figure out there is such thing called "back door". And whoever that work for these people couldn't care less (or more). You also expect the government to change the TSA shirts, come on, you gotta be kidding, that's too much thinking and work for them.
"Communication is the key to solving....." How often do people really use this key? Virtually the word "communication" always crops up as a "problem solver" for practically every organization. Unfortunately it is never a "2-way street" for most of them.
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