I actually thought that I was over the jet lag, having had a couple of decent nights sleep but apparently not.
I woke at 3am this morning with severe sugar cravings (yay for Coca-Cola in the mini-bar) and having spent an hour reading Reddit and a further hour attempting to sync my Garmin FR 310xt by USB cable (you can’t), I’m still awake.
My alarm is going to go off in one hour when I’m supposed to be out for a run – I think I’ll push that back by thirty minutes.

I’m in Switzerland because I had to help one of our channel partners talk to a large swiss bank about email security.
Tomorrow I fly out to Dubai, UAE, to talk to our  sales force in the Middle East area about Symantecs security strategy.
I’m imagining the contrast will be crazy and not just a cultural thing but temperature wise more-so.

It was -3c this morning when I went for a run.  It has been snowing for most of the day too.
In Dubai it’s currently 8am and is already 20c.

After Dubai, it’s Amsterdam and Brussels for the same Symantec security strategy discussions.
By the time I get back home on February 5th, I’ll have been to 6 foreign countries in just over 3 weeks and have renewed my spg.com gold membership for 2012 .
This is a new record.

Flight time to Dubai is around 6 hours, maybe I’ll come up with something interesting to write about on here - Maybe I’ll just take a nap…..

//ian

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Most of the week was, understandably, tied up with work.  Some good presentations during the day, and a days course on Product Management MRD (Requirements That Work) which really was excellent.  The instructor had some awesome anecdotes (true or not) that really got you thinking about the requirements process.  For example,  take the zero gravity space pen.  Legend has it that after they discovered that the bog standard ball point pen wouldn’t work in zero G environments, NASA spent millions of dollars developing the aforementioned space pen.  Of course, when you look back at the potential product goals and use case (enable astronaut to write in space),  it is penned that the Russian Cosmonauts simply used a pencil.  An example of over thinking?  Maybe…

On the day I had free and after hitting Alcatraz, a colleague and I hired a couple of mopeds and spent 5 or so hours cruising around the city,  There is a handily signposted ‘scenic drive’ around that takes you past the obvious places (Fishermans Wharf, Golden Gate Bridge) and out to the not so obvious (names escape me now).
I also managed to go to the late-opening Apple store about 4 times in the week, further tempting myself with the Macbook…  I held strong, I’ve still got a feeling about an announcement this month..

Finally, the Wednesday evening 5 of us hired out a practice room and some equipment (drums, keys, bass, axes, mics, amps..) and had ourselves a wicked little jam session.  None of us having played together before, it was none too shabby.  Belting out such classics as Hold The Line (Toto), Run To You (Bryan Adams), Paradise City (GnR) and also a sweet rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody, intertwined with some ‘freestyle’ 12 bar blues and failed attempts at other tracks (Sweet Emotion, Don’t Fear The Reaper).

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