rockin out in Houston, Texas

after landing in Den Haag and getting relatively settled...off to Houston for a week of training some of the guys over here...this kind of random changes in schedule makes my head spin a bit, and, i'm usually more comfortable with order and routine, but this trip has surely tested my ability to handle pressure, adapt to a new environment...each time those boundaries are tested, i think they're also widened a bit...but then again, who wants their boundaries always tested??? is that some kind of masochistic attempt to distract myself from other areas of my life? sometimes i think the answer is most definitely yes...but...

I landed in Houston and caught a taxi to the hotel...my initial impressiions were of the warm weather, signs for the weekend gun show downtown and the laid back nature of the people here...then again, in most restaurants there are signs warning that unlicensed gun carriers can be punished with 10 years jail and a huge fine...how can such laid back people need guns so much?

the work's been quite good...i feel underprepared, tho that's how i often feel...the combination of not good enough training material and not enough time to prepare make the delivery not quite as good as it should be...not looking for perfection, but i think these folks deserve better...on so many jobs over the past few years, these symptoms have been widespread...maybe that's the next revolution - to quality? i like quality

rocking out? a guy from work and i had been talking about how we like to play a bit of guitar - so, at Best Buy last night we went to the acoustic guitar testing room and jammed a bit...it was the most fun i've had since the DSC in Mysore...funny though, coz the room's virtually soundproof, so there was this South African guy and I (Reuben Aldum), playing along, for as long as we liked while no one could hear us...heaps of fun

couple of days and i'm back on a plane to Den Haag, which I'm really looking forward to...tho, after just reading my mate Bec's blog...don't look too far forward, the good stuff's going on now :)