Busy 4/21 through 5/6

[palandri]

I'll be tied up for the next two weeks. If you use InfoSniper and map my IP you'll see why I am busy.

 

[Dave Blake]

Paris France?! What the **** are you doing there?

 

[palandri]

Paris France?! What the **** are you doing there?

My wife is French. What can I say?

I'll stop by when I can.

 

[Dave Blake]

Enjoy your vacation

 

[Duvi]

Lol @ Dave really 'Sniping' pal!

Enjoy your trip Pal.

My cousin is always in Paris on business (as he's in the fashion industry, and writes for some magazines). Dude spends a ton of cash (that gets reimbursed) when he's out there.

 

[palandri]

Lol @ Dave really 'Sniping' pal!

Enjoy your trip Pal.

My cousin is always in Paris on business (as he's in the fashion industry, and writes for some magazines). Dude spends a ton of cash (that gets reimbursed) when he's out there.

Thanks!

Talking about fashion. I work construction and I am a jeans and t-shirt type of guy. When meeting with relatives and going out to dinner, I need to get a set of nicer clothing. My wife and I went to a couple of Men's clothing stores today. Talk about not my style, plus I think half the clothes in the Men's store should actually be in a Women's clothing store. I never got into the metro male look in the states. France has taken the metro male look to a whole new level.

 

[palandri]

Unlimited data/internet on my Pay as You Go, Orange SIM card in France for 9 euro (11.91 usd) a month. It's been 3.5G the whole time here. We were in Paris and we are in NIce now.

 

[Duvi]

Unlimited data/internet on my Pay as You Go, Orange SIM card in France for 9 euro (11.91 usd) a month. It's been 3.5G the whole time here. We were in Paris and we are in NIce now.

Niceeeeeeee! Lol.

Enjoy yourself. It's been quiet here and wow, prepaid service is pretty nice. $12/mo!

 

[palandri]

I am back.

Had a crazy trip back. We were suppose to land in Chicago at 12:30pm Sunday, but there were bad storms at O'Hare airport, so we circled over Lake Michigan for an hour. Then the Air France pilot says we are heading to Detroit to wait it out.

We spend two hours sitting on the runway in Detroit. U.S. laws prevented us from even leaving the plane, due to it being an international flight.

Then they decided to drop us off in Detroit and turn us over to Delta airlines. Delta put us in a hotel for the night, but had no flights for us until Tuesday. So I rented a car and drove back to Chicago.

 

[Dave Blake]

Glad you're back and made it safely.

I hate airlines sometimes. I fled Monday Southwest canceled my 6 am flight through St Louis to Indianapolis. I was supposed to be there at 10: am. They put me on a flight that wet from Dallas to St Louis to Chicago to Indianapolis and got me there at 2:30. It made no sense. I was going to the same place leaving 15 minutes later but couldn't make the connection or something. I think they oversold my connection and bumped me.

I flew 5 flights in 2 days had to sit in the middle seat every flight. I had to spend about 3 hours at a customer facility to look at a machine we will be building. What a pain in the ***. All to save a couple of hindered dollars on a plain ticket. My company puts zero value on the human part of the equation. It just pissed me off.

Enough about me. How was the trip did you see any unique windows phone stuff. Were where a bunch of people with Lumia 800's?

 

[palandri]

....How was the trip did you see any unique windows phone stuff. Were where a bunch of people with Lumia 800's?

The trip was great. I haven't taken two weeks off in a row in a long time. A couple of different things we did this time was we went to Monte Carlo, Monaco. It's real close to Nice, France. They were setting up miles of high fencing for the Grand Prix which is in another week. It's a real ritzy area; you see a lot of brand new Ferrari's and Rolls Royce cars around. We also went up to the French Alps for a day, where they had the 1992 Winter Olympic games. There's still snow up there and we weren't prepared going up there in t-shirts.

I did see a lot of Lumia 800 phones being used, mostly by a younger crowd. All three of their major carriers had Windows advertising up in their stores. The most popular phone I saw being used was The Samsung Galaxy II, followed by the iPhone. Something unusual I've noticed in the past is bluetooth earphones are almost impossible to find and rarely used. Most people, about 98%, used the wired earphones.

Three things I would like to bring to the U.S. from France are:

1. Video calling through the carrier, rather than a 3rd party application. It works great over their 3.5G. Also, lower mobile phone rates like they have in Europe, especially if you buy the phone outright.

2. High speed trains are great. They reduce traffic, oil consumption, and they get you from point A to point B fast. They make Amtrak look like something from the Flintstones.

3. Electric cars and electric car rental. Most people in the U.S. could use an electric car for work everyday.

Here's a picture of an electric car rental place:

 

[Duvi]

Nice! Glad you enjoyed yourself.