Just got to my hotel room in Mexico city after a fun and long day in Guadalajara.. or ‘Guad’ as the local call it. I just love that city.. lots of cool people great food.. nice weather.. i’ll go back there whenever they need me.
Im here as part of an “RTLE’ which is like an in-service training days for the technical leaders here. They’re treated to (subjected to) a bunch of talks and workshops given by folks from their own technical leaders and other leaders from other parts of the company . I’m here i think as comic relief. My assignment was to give a career development talk.. instead I gave a talk on the importance of Play and fun in your job. Its a theme that keeps coming up in my life these days.. same kind of thing I discussed with the high school kids at MMU when I accidentally set off the fire alarm back in May. Isn’t it funny that when we talk to others we’re really talking to ourselves sometime ? This talk was about reminding myself to remember to have fun in my job.. to make a plan to be brave to not worry so much and to do rather than talk.. i hope other folks enjoyed it because I really did..

I did learn a great new tongue twister in spanish last night.. or trabalinguas as they call them here.

Tres tristres tigres, tragaban trigo en tres tristes trascos sentado en un trigal, en tres tristes trasto, tragaban trigo tres tristes tigres.

that means.. three sad tigers carry wheat in three sad bowls sitting in a field  en three sad bowlst hree sad tigers carry wheat.

which goes along with my other favorite :

Pancha plancha con quatros planchas quantos panchas Pancha plancha ?

which means Plancha irons with 4 irons how many irons does plancha iron with ?

Not too many pictures from the day because I was talking the whole time.. Here’s what I have. I really need a new camera..

The crowd looking enthralled (?)

 

 

My friends Manuel and Gabrial getting inventors awards (congrats guys !)

Our eminent  imminent panel..

La Jeffa Selene

the very nice coms folks.. they helped us record the whole event and helped us speak with the journalists.. (My spanish is getting better.. but not so great that I’d want to be interviewed in spanish )

Cool demos of traffic prediction stuff !

it’s only 3 PM ? ? ? !

A panel of women.. I snuck in like a ninja to take this picture.. I escaped before they kicked me out.

our krewe aiting at the airportfor our flight to MEX> (Christy dale Selene and Holly)

Holly’s ubercolorful luggage.

ok.. im happy and beat…

more tomorrow..

nite all nite sam

-me