This is crazy

I just had a look at my timesheet for the last week... 83 hours ! A lot of people said to us "Good holiday" before we came in BC... No comment on that. In 7 days here, all I saw in Victoria was the road between the plant and the hotel (which is about 5 minutes). And all I will see in Nanaimo is the road from the hotel to the plant. By chance I drive from Victoria to Nanaimo, thats the only photos I will have...

Our boss are crazy, they are asking us to do things we never did before... On sunday afternoon, which should have been our only spare time of this trip, I entered price list in the system with another guy in here... Wtf is that ?!? What can we say ? Nothing for now... They want everything to work perfectly and we all know it won't happens because it's way too big. Anyway i'm off to bed now. I worked 15 hours today so I have to get some sleep...

And oh, this hotel here is a lot nicer then the Holiday Inn. I'm on the 14th floor with a view on the nanaimo port and the pacific ocean. There's also a couple of mountains, it's very nice (pictures to come !!)

News from BC

Tuesday, october 25th, 5am, it's time to go to the airport. When we arrive at the airport, we had breakfest and then went to our gate. 30 minutes later we were on the plane. Half the plane was japanese, quite impressive. We had a movie during the flight, It was suppose to be "Batman Begins" (or "Batman Starts" like our captain said !!) but instead we had "Game of their lifes". It was a movie about a US soccer team which goes to the "World Cup of Soccer" and won a game 1-0 and that's about it... I would prefer Batman for sure. I didn't really watch the movie because I was in the first row, right in front of the big screen, so it was kinda hard for my neck! By chance I had my MP3 player. Flight was about 5 hours to get to Vancouver. Then we switch to a small plane of about 40 places and 15 minutes later we were on the Vancouver Island in Victoria. Next step get the rental car. I got an American car with some "wood" part in it. This is so ugly ! This car is way bigger then mine so I had some difficulties to park it. Took me about 2-3 try each times. Then we go to the plant in Victoria. We stayed there until 9pm. That was a hell of a long day. We go back to check-in at our hotel (Holiday Inn) and then had lunch at the restaurant in the hotel...

Next day I woke up a 6am and I went to the Safeway store do to the DEX testing (see previous post), It didn't work and maybe this thing will be cancelled cause we spend too much time on it. After I went back to the plant. We were 7 in there with our laptop computer in a small room. Two girls went to buy some candies and they came back with some Kit-Kat banana flavor !! It was not bad.... It was another long day, like 12 hours.

Thursday, I had to go to Cassidy, which is about 1h15min from Victoria. Road to go there was very nice (pictures to come). Big moutains, couple of islands which I could see from my car. I go trought a city called Duncan. There was totems everywhere along the road. Also there is a huge hockey stick on one of the building. Weird city... Day was quite boring over there so nothing much to say. At around 5pm I came back to Victoria to have lunch (and beers). There was a hockey game Vancouver-Colorado. Funny thing is when I watch hockey in Montreal, I'm the only one (or almost) taking for the other team. And even in here, I was the only one cheering for the Colorado because thats my #1 team! They won 6-2 so I was happy about that! There is another game between those 2 teams on friday night so I'll be there again.

Friday - nothing to say, work from 8am to 6:30pm, sleep at 10pm!

Sunday I'm heading north to see the Sequoias. I've been told those trees were like 200 foot tall and 10 foot wide ! It will be the fun part of this trip !

Thats it for now. Pictures are coming in my next post if my next hotel room at Nanaimo has Internet access !!

BC in 2 days

Yup i'm leaving for British Columbia tuesday at 08h30 ! I'm going there for business because we bought a company and we (me and 15 other persons) are going there to implement our system... Flight will last 5hours 15mins to Vancouver and then 30 more minutes to get to Vancouver Island. I'll be in Victoria the first 2 days and after that i'm going to Cassidy, a small city near Nanaimo on the Vancouver Island also. I was told Victoria is the nicest city in Canada with a lot of japanese and their money ! Let's hope we will have time to visit a little bit. Since we are there for 10 days, we should have time on sunday !


We worked very hard last couple of weeks to make sure everything is ready. This week-end I had to make the handheld send/receive file to the white laptop on the picture. It was a really boring week-end but I had to do it. By chance I had a dinner saturday night which was great (even if the Habs won...)


So I guess that's it for now, next post from BC ;-)

First post !!

First post... let's see how many days I will keep this thing up and running...

I could not find a template I like so I took the one call "minima" which is pretty simple.. black text on white background.

I'll work a little bit to make it look better. See you in a couple of days...