On the Road Again

In January I started a new job.   I'm a field sales rep for a company that is a global provider of enterprise computing solutions.  I will be dealing with partners who sell NetApp products. My territory is Western Canada.  So far I really like it.

The company has a office downtown and when I started the job I figured that is where I would be working, but after I started a laptop and printer showed up at my house. Turns out that I have been set up to work out of a home office. So I have the best of both worlds....I can work at home or can go into the office.  One nice thing about the office is the walk.  I park about a mile away (where its free) and walk.   Its a great walk.   Here's a couple of pictures taken about a month ago.

The view of downtown from close to where I park.

 

I walk along this path to get to the office.
This is along the river (only a couple blocks from the office)

Back in my WordPerfect/Novell days I used to travel alot for work. They usually weren't exciting trips (to places like Regina, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Vancouver) but I seemed to be at an airport everyweek. Well for the first couple months I've been on the road quite abit I have been on the road alot but that is mostly been for training. It should slow down from now one. So far I've been to Toronto (twice), Minneapolis Minnesota, Vancouver, and Sunnyvale California.

Temple Tour 2010

 I don't like being away from home but there have been some perks to the travel.   I've been able to attend the temple on my trips.

I've been able to attend the Toronto temple both times I was in Toronto.
(Taken Feb 24, 201)

In Vancouver I had a couple of hours before my flight so I checked out the Vancouver Temple.   The outside is finished and the grounds are done.  There will be an open house in April.

  Vancouver Temple
(Taken March 4, 2010)

While in California I was able to attend the Oakland Temple.

Oakland Temple
(taken March 10, 2010)

This year I've also been able to go to the Edmonton and Cardston Temple.

Edmonton Temple
(Stock Picture)

Cardston Temple
(taken March 13, 2010)

I was also in Minneapolis but didn't have time to get to the St. Paul Temple which is really close to where I was staying. The head office for my group is in Minneapolis so I'll I may have another opportunity to get to that temple.

Looks alot like the Edmonton Temple

(Stock photo)


More posts to come.

I have fallen behind on the blog.  I have lots of updates that I've thought of but just haven't posted.

I have spent more time in airports than I have planned.   Delayed flights home seem to be the norm.   

I've seen this more than I would like.  No plane at the gate yet.   And this is after our scheduled departure time.    I should be using this time to update my blog.   But there are 3 problems. 

1)  its hard to find these at the airports.  Why is that?

2)  Free wireless internet access.  I'm too cheap to pay to get access to the internet at the airport
(Calgary and Vancouver are great because you do have free wireless)

3) its at the end of the day and I'm uusally tired just want to veg.