Getting answers

Its been a hectic week for me.

Monday and Tuesday was burning it hard with 10-11 hr days at the office to finish my functional designs so that the developers up in Brisbane can start their technical work.

I made another trip up to Brisbane on Wednesday morning, it was pretty tough trying to stay awake after catching the 7am flight. Apparently it was a public holiday in Brisbane but we got the developers working through it.
This time round I was a one man road show coming up here, armed with only my laptop and trusty Analogue PDA (Notepad and pen) =)

It was good to finally meet development team face to face, since we've only spoken on the phone and through the email the past couple of weeks.
These are the guys who are going to be writing the data migration software based on the rules and designs I came up with from all the work done in the last 2 months. This is outsourcing at its best, seeing that they're migrated over from our various offices in India for the duration of this project.

The good:
The Indian team were great fun to hang out and work with.
Walking by myself up to the company we bought over to sit down with one of their programmers and getting all my important questions answered.
Room service food was yummy.
Fitness First on Adelaide St has a nice basement weights area which is a sweaty 4 wall dungeon filled with heavy weights.

The bad:
Getting hooked up at the Grand Chancellor hotel (again).
It ain't grand. In fact, it looks like it was built in the 70s.
Think porn movie set when you look at the raunchy red leopard print bedspread which matches the drab red carpets.
Situated on top of the tallest and steepest hill overlooking the city, you'd think it was an Everest expedition trying to walk up here.

At least the service was good, I helped myself to a cup of peppermint tea last night.
When I got back to the room this evening, sure enough the cups were cleaned etc, but the maid left a mug out next to the kettle with a peppermint teabag on top. Its little thoughtful gestures like this that really make my day! =)

Off to bed now.... So tired I can hardly keep my eyes open.
I can't wait to fly back to Melbourne tomorrow evening!