Week 10 - Monday 31/01/00

Call home to inform them I am a liar. the country is white. It snowed over night.  The meeting goes well.  We have a Hungarian break out session on one of the sofas around the place. Hooker 1 comes in and goes to the lifts. 5 Minutes later, Hooker 2. Then a third. after 15 minutes, Hooker 1 comes back down, then Hooker 2. I did not see Hooker 3 return.  Went out that night for some food. "I know a great restaurant in the old town" off we go. we arrive at the wrong place but stay. The waitress is stunning. About 6.5 feet tall and black shiny hair down to her waist. We stay! The food was great so was the Vodka. Lots of Vodka.
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Week 9 - Friday 28/01/00

Called my old comrade to see how his interview went. He got the job and will start next week at my old company. Sounds like they have some problems.
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Week 9 - Thursday 27/01/00

Took the team out, well only three showed up, one was my boss, one was our primary supplier and one was our Sun rep. He has done a great job in getting our equipment here in break neck speed. It is a novel situation for me to buy a supplier a drink. Something I must put a stop to!  Had one of the great 1 liter jugs. People watch in amazement as I drink it with little effort!
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Week 9 - Tuesday 25/01/00

A day of news and confusion.  Started the day with the first of the development status meetings. This is going well, but less than my expectations. Strange! Things were not as bad as I spent last night worrying about, or so the team tell me. After the 'laying down the law' session last week they seem to be working better together.  Great news the Sun server is due tomorrow. Something's are just working out peachy.  Spent a lot of time sorting out flights.  First I was not going to Poland next week! So I booked tickets to and from Budapest as normal.  Then I was going, called travel agent, hold my tickets as I may need to change them. I am going so call to reschedule flights to Warsaw, via Frankfurt. I now have to travel Sunday night. I receive confirmation that I can do this and leave the Warsaw to Budapest sector blank.  I then recall my agent to fill in the missing sectors  Here is the flight plan <blockquote>  Sunday Fly to Warsaw via Frankfurt  Tuesday Fly to Budapest via Vienna  Friday Fly to East Midlands via Paris </blockquote>  Not a bad week, 6 countries in 6 days!  Now got to worry about the Israeli trip the following week.  All this is fine, but we are now reaching a critical phase in the project and being away from the office does worry me, nice as it is, I just wonder what crap will occur without me being there! The PAY TV channel in the hotel had "Lock, Stock and two Smoking barrels" on tonight. It was great!
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Original Publish Date Week 9 - Tuesday 25/01/00

Week 9 - Monday 24/01/00

Up early again today. My little man came through about 15 minutes before my alam clock ran. I got up. Started watching TV. It was the original "Brewster's Millions", due to finish at 5:30, great my cab is booked for then and it is bound to be a minute or two late. I have never seen this film, but did enjoy the re-make with ...... Cab arrived at 5:20. Missed the end. Oh well another day.  Machine crashes are constant during the day. I am begining to suspect my laptop does not approve of all this traveling! Or maybe it is Lotus Notes as I do not have this problem at home!!!!  Got to the hotel. I was knackered. Plan to sleep at 8PM. Went to bed about 11:30, I was playing "Homeworld". A bloody great game, shame my machine is crap at playing it.
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Week 8 - Saturday 22/01/00 Sunday 23/01/00

Great to be home. After the swimming lessons, we start stripping my daughters room as we are redecorating. I have loads of holes to fill before Kelly can paint.
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Week 8 - Friday 21/01/00

Project Status meeting. The super Users return from Israel today following their training. Some discontent about some items I cannot go into here. More shit to worry about and sort out!  Start traveling home. Loads to drink!
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