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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 !<\/p>\n

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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. <\/div>\n

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Around  7PM they crammed us all in buses and took us out on the LA freeways headed towards Universal studios.. <\/p>\n
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The traffic here is really, really bad.. I couldn’t do this every day !<\/div>\n

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

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We got to Universal at abut8Pm…  Universal is a combination working movie set and theme park<\/div>\n

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Here’s a shot of the various studio buildings from above..<\/div>\n

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They had all sorts of interesting props laying around.. Like this is the real capsule used in the making of Apollo 13…  pretty cool…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Bruce, Brian, Brett  and I took a great back stage tour bus ride. here’re Bruce and Brett <\/p>\n
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and our very funny trolley guide. <\/div>\n

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It was hard to photograph most of what we saw.. but much of it involved fire !.. like this wharf fire  scene..<\/div>\n

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and this car crash scene <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Here’s the original Psycho scene..   and look. there’s vacancy !<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Here’s one of the sets from the Grinch … <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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… and a warehouse fire scene… lots and lots of fire !<\/div>\n

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On the way out we came upon Lisa and Tom getting their characture down… Aren’t they cute ? <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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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. <\/div>\n

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In front of the ride was this cryptic sign… <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Okay my switched children.. time for sleep.. talk to you all tomorrow.  Love you all.. love you Sam !
-me<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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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 … Continue reading Tuesday night – universal fire<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}