Today’s meetings were very good.. lots of new information.. lots of perspective on our business. I’m glad that I’m here.  There are about 3000 people here from my division… What a cool geekfest !

We were inside in meetings all day… I did step outside for 30 seconds in the middle of the day just to show that I could.. and here’s proof.

Around  7PM they crammed us all in buses and took us out on the LA freeways headed towards Universal studios..

The traffic here is really, really bad.. I couldn’t do this every day !

We did catch a quick glimpse of the Hollywood sign, but that’s about as much sightseeing as we were able to do.

We got to Universal at abut8Pm…  Universal is a combination working movie set and theme park

Here’s a shot of the various studio buildings from above..

They had all sorts of interesting props laying around.. Like this is the real capsule used in the making of Apollo 13…  pretty cool…

Bruce, Brian, Brett  and I took a great back stage tour bus ride. here’re Bruce and Brett

and our very funny trolley guide.

It was hard to photograph most of what we saw.. but much of it involved fire !.. like this wharf fire  scene..

and this car crash scene

Here’s the original Psycho scene..   and look. there’s vacancy !

Here’s one of the sets from the Grinch …

… and a warehouse fire scene… lots and lots of fire !

On the way out we came upon Lisa and Tom getting their characture down… Aren’t they cute ?

We then went on several rides.. the mummy and Jurassic Park.. both pretty good.. Here’s our triumphant splash down after the Jurassic Park log ride.

In front of the ride was this cryptic sign…

Okay my switched children.. time for sleep.. talk to you all tomorrow.  Love you all.. love you Sam !
-me