Hilarious.  What’s a brother to do when he can’t fly his own personal jet anymore because it’s too expensive! Well he must fly commerical now. Well at least he still has first class!

I’m really liking Orlando!

Taken on a “beach” while there was some downtime at the conference.

Things have been moving pretty quickly here. Getting settled in to the new digs but there’s still a bit to do. I have some visitors coming in mid February so I have to get it all finished by then!

So for the first time ever, I’ll be heading down to Lotusphere in Disney World in Florida. IBM puts it on every year, but this will be the first time anybody from MNP has gone. Big thanks goes out to IBM Canada for the free pass! I’m really stoked this year about it too, as we are looking towards using more Lotus products in the future and this will get the ball rolling. Lotus has been moving towards “webifying” many of their products, making it easier to collaborate between users. This is especially significant for MNP as we have such a wide spread firm across Canada.

So I’m off away from the snow and the cold to hopefully warm and sunny Florida! My computer is broken at home currently, however I’m borrowing Jana’s camera. Hopefully I’ll be able to post some more photo’s soon. And get some photo’s of the new place up as well.

Stay tuned!

There’s some new photo’s posted up in the gallery of the Kananaskis Trip. Last weekend we had an IT conference with some personnel from across the firm. For a “Team Building” activity. We took a bus out to Kananaskis country, west of Calgary, just before you hit the mountains, and had some outdoor activities including fire building, and boomerang tossing. For the afternoon we headed out white water rafting. For those that have never done it, go right now. It is super fun. I’ll gladly go again.

Before that on Saturday a bunch of us went paint-balling. The outdoor course was huge and had several courses ranging from full forest to an open, tire-filled field. No serious injuries came about, which was good, however on the way home, I got my first speeding ticket. 70Km in a 50km zone. I was bound to get one sooner or later. Honestly I wasn’t even on the gas and was slowing down, however going down a hill, you don’t slow down quick enough and 2 cops were sitting at the bottom of the hill, pinging off people left and right. $124 later, I was on my way.

So the weekend of firsts had it’s up and downs!

Did you know the United States has a coin for $1? Did you know this coin is currently in circulation? I didn’t either. Apparently they’ve been around since 2000, however American’s don’t like them so they are used rarely in daily transactions.

So that was my surprise when I put $5 into the transit ticket machine and it gave me back coins in change. I was a little confused as I had no clue they had adopted a “loonie”. Everywhere I had been the last couple of days still were using the normal $1 bills. Turns out, most of the US just use it for postal and transit change dispenser machines.
Ah…remember those days? Yes I was only 8 in 1989 but I still remember the $1 bill!