It's official: I'm now officially a Londoner. You know how you can tell? Today on the way home from work I was navigating the train stop in Paddington towards the Circle platform to Bayswater and I found myself behind someone walking incredibly slowly. Then it happened -- I found myself muttering silent profanities under my breath at this person who was keeping me from my train. It's at that point that you realize that you're over the romance of being in a strange town taking exotic forms of transportation, and all you really want to do is get home efficiently. I'm a real Brit now -- I almost cried. Except that I had to catch my train.
This week in the office it's all about training sessions. Each morning this week except for Friday I have a 2 or 3 hour training session with different groups of people. Sales, Pre-Sales, Majors, Nationals, Primaries... someone, somewhere is going to squeeze the most knowledge out of me that they can while I'm here. And to tell the truth, I absolutely love it. I feel like I'm genuinely helping out here. Today Andrew needed me to help him prepare his demo environment for an EIGHT HOUR demo tomorrow with Philips. So I grabbed Scott Drew (SSC, Nationals), and we went through all the demo scenarios Philips gave Andrew and we built in as much as we could into the demo environment. Andrew seemed genuinely stressed about it (naturally), and thanked me a few times for helping out. It's nice to be appreciated, but even nicer to feel wanted, and now I see why I'm in London for a month. They really need the help here. If I would I'd stay longer, because I'm having the time of my life in this office. Every night I go home exhausted but happy. Can't say enough about this group of individuals -- here they are, 5000 miles from Redmond, preaching the gospel of Concur, without so much as an idea of what the headquarters in the States looks like. They're a passionate group, and I'm honored to be working along side them.
No real interesting pictures to speak of, except for this one shot I grabbed outside the Bayswater tube station. He was handing out flyers for some sort of calling card that is most likely an overpriced ripoff. He certainly, however, showed a complete lack of ability to dress himself...
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