The Last Week of Training

I completely forgot to blog about my last week in Dallas. It wasn't only because of most classes ending late, but also due to our increased drinking :)

Last Saturday we went to an Irish pub in Mockingbird to watch rugby. one of my new colleagues used to play professional rugby and wanted to see the match between England and Scotland. Luckily for us who joined him, he explained what was going on during the game, and why various things happened. It's a really tough sport, with none of the theatrics of football (both American and soccer). If someone goes down, they just keep playing, and if the blood doesn't stop flowing from an injury, the player is temporarily replaced until he's stitched back together. Actually a really great sport to watch, as the speed of the game is almost unrivaled. Only hockey is faster I think.

Anyway, we get to the bar at 9am, given the time difference, kickoff was at 10. I choose to start off with a cup of coffee, but later joined the others in having a beer. We got a few beers each before the match was over. Since the bar wasn't going to show any more interesting events, we decided to head home, and meet up later for dinner. Dinner brought a few more beers, and since there wasn't anything else to do, we went to a pub and after that a bar. When the two others decided to meet up with some of the other people from the office at a place far from the hotel, I gave up trying to keep up and went back to the hotel. Apparently they both got really plastered, and didn't look all that hot on Sunday.

Sunday was Superbowl Sunday, which we naturally had to see - not for the game but rather the commercials. The game started out really good, we were Bears fans at that point, but even the commercials went downhill from there... We didn't have that many beers, as we were all fairly tired - the two others more than me though :)

The last week of training was filled with business topics, and very little time in the application. It didn't matter that much, as I think we've been through most of it anyway. All topics were naturally fairly light, as it would have taken weeks to go into details with every single subject. That's why we have a few weeks before we're sent to a client; then we have time to go into details with the areas of the system and business that we will be working with. We had a few late night as we all had to do a small demo of part of the system, and there wasn't any room in the regular schedule. But hey, we didn't have anything better to do.

Tuesday we went for happy hour in the downstairs bar. Wednesday there was the usual happy hour at the hotel, so we had a few beers there before we went our and had a really nice steak. Probably the best stake I've had. Thursday we went downstairs for the happy hour again, as there we a couple of people from the training class who flew home Friday. On Friday a couple of us had talked about trying to have an easy night with time to pack - the Canadians had to leave for the airport at 8am on Saturday - but somehow we ended up downstairs again. This time a few people from the office joined us as it was our last evening in Dallas. Having had quite a few beers each, we drove up to the pub at Mockingbird (people from Dallas doesn't seem to take all this about not drinking and driving all that serious) where we continued drinking. I got back to the hotel together with another Dane and the two Canadians, who still hadn't packed, around 12pm and was glad that i didn't have to get up in a few hours to pack :)

I've already told you about the flight home, so this was just a quick summary of the week before that.

P.s. this was written on my E61. It was a bit fiddly to start with, but after a while i got used to the keyboard and typed away fairly fast. Not at fast as on a regular sized keyboard, but fast enough that I didn't mind writing a full blog story.

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