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Back in NY, at least for a couple days. Will take me a while to catch up. Got up early today, been doing things around the house all morning.

Random comment: those plastic containers used by many consumer packaged goods are such a pain to open. I end up cutting myself half the time, and cursing. The manufacturer's goal is to deter shoplifting by making it super-hard to get the packages open at the store. The end result is that the packages are very hard to open even if you use power tools, 5 knives, and 2 scissors.

Went to the dentist yesterday. Standard scheduled checkup. No problems. Funny how they always tell you that you need to floss more, and point out your gums bleed a bit. The thought that always comes to mind for me is: "Well, maybe they bleed because you are poking around in my mouth with a sharp metal object!"

Will be in Cinci again Wed, Thu, Fri most likely.

I have to post a couple pics from Vegas when I have a minute.

Late dinner last night. Met Maria, a friend of Charles', briefly. She is considering moving to NY for work, currently working at P&G, wanted to get my impressions on moving from Cinci to the Big Apple. She has a PhD and works in the Chemistry/Pharmaceutical area I believe. Interesting.

Will be a busy morning in the Cinci office. Will catch a flight back this afternoon.

Talked to Bill late last night, he went out with Sanja, it went well.

Back in Cinci, the Millennium. Will be in meetings all day tomorrow morning, and will fly back to NY in the afternoon. Pretty busy schedule this week.

The travel agent accidentally booked me on a smoking room. The the hotel was out of non-smoking rooms in the club level, so they sent to another lamer room, but it's fine. All I need is a bed.

In the car rental roulette I got upgraded to an SUV at no extra cost. It's a huge 2006 Trailbrazer, white.

In Vegas. Full first day of conferences at NAB 2006. The city is packed with about 150,000 show attendees. Took me a while to register this morning. Need to spend some time in the exhibit halls tomorrow.

Staying at the Luxor South of the Main Strip. It's OK, typical Vegas.




Sunday was pretty rough. Took me about an hour to get a cab from the airport to the hotel, and another hour to check in. That's on top of the 4+ flight hours, and the delays out of Cinci. But I made it, and it's all good.

Several other people I know are here as well. Hans from Siemmens/Seattle and Jesus and Eusebi from Tatamia Solutions/Spain. We all met for dinner today, it was fun.

If you haven't noticed, today is supposed to be "Earth Day," check it out:

http://www.earthday.gov/

"Earth Day is a time to celebrate gains we have made and create new visions to accelerate environmental progress. Earth Day is a time to unite around new actions. Earth Day and every day is a time to act to protect our planet."

Don't know, sounds kinda lame to me, more of a pretend thing for PR