It's been a busy couple of months. Finished my first class here and they've turned out quite well. To say it's been a whirlwind of activity down here is an understatement. Lots of things going on to be sure.
The site opening is proceeding quickly. We're looking at around 1200 people on site at present and we're bringing more folks on tomorrow. ABay validation went quite well. Should be finished today.
On the non-work side, things have been just as busy. Seen some pretty neat things in town, lots of good food. Found a couple of the local hobby shops, neither of which seem to stock Reaper paints, which is a little puzzling. Definitely got some good deals out of the visits as well.
At any rate, back to it.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Everything Really Is Bigger In Texas
Well, the food seems to be at least. I'm rapidly finding out that most of things I take for granted as coming in bottles or small containers at home seem to come in medium sized buckets here. I'm getting used to it though, just more partial containers in the fridge and the like.
The flight in wasn't too bad, though I could have done with a longer stop at O'Hare. Perhaps next time.
The hotel is quite nice and I'm finding the people here quite pleasant. As to the actual call centre here, it's massive by our standards in North America. This will be our largest site on the continent by a sizable margin once we're done.
Aside from that, the team is generally good and fun to work with. This weekend will be interesting I'm certain.
The flight in wasn't too bad, though I could have done with a longer stop at O'Hare. Perhaps next time.
The hotel is quite nice and I'm finding the people here quite pleasant. As to the actual call centre here, it's massive by our standards in North America. This will be our largest site on the continent by a sizable margin once we're done.
Aside from that, the team is generally good and fun to work with. This weekend will be interesting I'm certain.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Back In Barrie......For A Couple Of Weeks
Well, I think 'whirlwind' would be an apt description for the last while with me.
Work picked up from busy to nuts on quite a few fronts. I've divorced myself from the 'Client Who Shall Not Be Named' and one of our sites and dived into a brand new one. Bright House is picking up again in terms of training and the like, so I'm working updates and recursive training across four sites, seven teams and three countries. It's crazy busy, but my team is full of super stars. As insane as it is, we're making it look easy and it's pretty fun.
We've started work for Comcast in San Antonio and I'll be heading down there to train in a couple of weeks, so I'm on to the pre-planning and running reviews for my team on top of everything else before I leave. It's been a while since I've done a site opening, so I'm looking forward to that. I've never been to Texas before and it looks like a really cool area. Definitely taking in the Alamo, northern Mexico and Corpus Christi while I'm there. Looks like I'll be coming in to a nice jazz festival when I land too, so that's good. If anyone can suggest some other things to see, by all means, let me know.
I returned from Niagara Falls (more accurately Tonawanda) on Thursday. Good visit overall, saw the Falls and things like that again, but I was much more excited to meet my team. Great bunch in that site too, I'm happy to say. Went to some neat places and got to hang out with some very cool people.
Late in August, I got word that my Dad had been in for kidney surgery, so I packed off to Owen Sound for a couple of weeks. Spending some time with my family and with the team in Owen Sound was a pretty good thing all things being equal. It was a double boon since I'm not sure when I'll be back in Canada.
On the modeling front, it's been stop and start to a greater or lesser degree. I've been working on two boxes of Lootas for a couple of weeks now. It turns out that speed painting isn't my strong suit these days. I think I've been spoiled by too many HQ type units.
At any rate, the bodies of the Lootas are done and I'm working on the rest of the mob in pairs. If things go well, I might even have a couple finished up today or Monday.
On the other side of things, I've pretty much been working to get old projects off of my desk. Of course, me being me, I've managed to sneak in a few of those models which I really wanted to paint.
I finished up the Tallaran Officer Nic gave me to paint about a year and a half ago.
I've a Lexmechanic done.
And I couldn't resist doing a Death Cult Assassin because the model is just awesome.
I'm also working here and there on an Imperial Bastion, but there's not much to see yet.
I've also started puttering with a War Machine Bloat Thrall which will probably wind up going into Sean's army of Nurgly stuff.
In terms of current projects though, the main one I'm working on is my Lootas, at least for the moment.
Work picked up from busy to nuts on quite a few fronts. I've divorced myself from the 'Client Who Shall Not Be Named' and one of our sites and dived into a brand new one. Bright House is picking up again in terms of training and the like, so I'm working updates and recursive training across four sites, seven teams and three countries. It's crazy busy, but my team is full of super stars. As insane as it is, we're making it look easy and it's pretty fun.
We've started work for Comcast in San Antonio and I'll be heading down there to train in a couple of weeks, so I'm on to the pre-planning and running reviews for my team on top of everything else before I leave. It's been a while since I've done a site opening, so I'm looking forward to that. I've never been to Texas before and it looks like a really cool area. Definitely taking in the Alamo, northern Mexico and Corpus Christi while I'm there. Looks like I'll be coming in to a nice jazz festival when I land too, so that's good. If anyone can suggest some other things to see, by all means, let me know.
I returned from Niagara Falls (more accurately Tonawanda) on Thursday. Good visit overall, saw the Falls and things like that again, but I was much more excited to meet my team. Great bunch in that site too, I'm happy to say. Went to some neat places and got to hang out with some very cool people.
Late in August, I got word that my Dad had been in for kidney surgery, so I packed off to Owen Sound for a couple of weeks. Spending some time with my family and with the team in Owen Sound was a pretty good thing all things being equal. It was a double boon since I'm not sure when I'll be back in Canada.
On the modeling front, it's been stop and start to a greater or lesser degree. I've been working on two boxes of Lootas for a couple of weeks now. It turns out that speed painting isn't my strong suit these days. I think I've been spoiled by too many HQ type units.
At any rate, the bodies of the Lootas are done and I'm working on the rest of the mob in pairs. If things go well, I might even have a couple finished up today or Monday.
On the other side of things, I've pretty much been working to get old projects off of my desk. Of course, me being me, I've managed to sneak in a few of those models which I really wanted to paint.
I finished up the Tallaran Officer Nic gave me to paint about a year and a half ago.
I've a Lexmechanic done.
And I couldn't resist doing a Death Cult Assassin because the model is just awesome.
I'm also working here and there on an Imperial Bastion, but there's not much to see yet.
I've also started puttering with a War Machine Bloat Thrall which will probably wind up going into Sean's army of Nurgly stuff.
In terms of current projects though, the main one I'm working on is my Lootas, at least for the moment.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Back In Barrie.......For A Couple Of Weeks
Well, I think 'whirlwind' would be an apt description for the last while with me.
Work picked up from busy to nuts on quite a few fronts. I've divorced myself from the 'Client Who Shall Not Be Named' and one of our sites and dived into a brand new one. Bright House is picking up again in terms of training and the like, so I'm working updates and recursive training across four sites, seven teams and three countries. It's crazy busy, but my team is full of super stars. As insane as it is, we're making it look easy and it's pretty fun.
We've started work for Comcast in San Antonio and I'll be heading down there to train in a couple of weeks, so I'm on to the pre-planning and running reviews for my team on top of everything else before I leave. It's been a while since I've done a site opening, so I'm looking forward to that. I've never been to Texas before and it looks like a really cool area. Definitely taking in the Alamo, northern Mexico and Corpus Christi while I'm there. Looks like I'll be coming in to a nice jazz festival when I land too, so that's good. If anyone can suggest some other things to see, by all means, let me know.
I returned from Niagara Falls (more accurately Tonawanda) on Thursday. Good visit overall, saw the Falls and things like that again, but I was much more excited to meet my team. Great bunch in that site too, I'm happy to say. Went to some neat places and got to hang out with some very cool people.
Late in August, I got word that my Dad had been in for kidney surgery, so I packed off to Owen Sound for a couple of weeks. Spending some time with my family and with the team in Owen Sound was a pretty good thing all things being equal. It was a double boon since I'm not sure when I'll be back in Canada.
On the modeling front, it's been stop and start to a greater or lesser degree. I've been working on two boxes of Lootas for a couple of weeks now. It turns out that speed painting isn't my strong suit these days. I think I've been spoiled by too many HQ type units.
At any rate, the bodies of the Lootas are done and I'm working on the rest of the mob in pairs. If things go well, I might even have a couple finished up today or Monday.
On the other side of things, I've pretty much been working to get old projects off of my desk. Of course, me being me, I've managed to sneak in a few of those models which I really wanted to paint.
I finished up the Tallaran Officer Nic gave me to paint about a year and a half ago.
I've a Lexmechanic done.
And I couldn't resist doing a Death Cult Assassin because the model is just awesome.
I'm also working here and there on an Imperial Bastion, but there's not much to see yet.
I've also started puttering with a War Machine Bloat Thrall which will probably wind up going into Sean's army of Nurgly stuff.
In terms of current projects though, the main one I'm working on is my Lootas, at least for the moment.
Work picked up from busy to nuts on quite a few fronts. I've divorced myself from the 'Client Who Shall Not Be Named' and one of our sites and dived into a brand new one. Bright House is picking up again in terms of training and the like, so I'm working updates and recursive training across four sites, seven teams and three countries. It's crazy busy, but my team is full of super stars. As insane as it is, we're making it look easy and it's pretty fun.
We've started work for Comcast in San Antonio and I'll be heading down there to train in a couple of weeks, so I'm on to the pre-planning and running reviews for my team on top of everything else before I leave. It's been a while since I've done a site opening, so I'm looking forward to that. I've never been to Texas before and it looks like a really cool area. Definitely taking in the Alamo, northern Mexico and Corpus Christi while I'm there. Looks like I'll be coming in to a nice jazz festival when I land too, so that's good. If anyone can suggest some other things to see, by all means, let me know.
I returned from Niagara Falls (more accurately Tonawanda) on Thursday. Good visit overall, saw the Falls and things like that again, but I was much more excited to meet my team. Great bunch in that site too, I'm happy to say. Went to some neat places and got to hang out with some very cool people.
Late in August, I got word that my Dad had been in for kidney surgery, so I packed off to Owen Sound for a couple of weeks. Spending some time with my family and with the team in Owen Sound was a pretty good thing all things being equal. It was a double boon since I'm not sure when I'll be back in Canada.
On the modeling front, it's been stop and start to a greater or lesser degree. I've been working on two boxes of Lootas for a couple of weeks now. It turns out that speed painting isn't my strong suit these days. I think I've been spoiled by too many HQ type units.
At any rate, the bodies of the Lootas are done and I'm working on the rest of the mob in pairs. If things go well, I might even have a couple finished up today or Monday.
On the other side of things, I've pretty much been working to get old projects off of my desk. Of course, me being me, I've managed to sneak in a few of those models which I really wanted to paint.
I finished up the Tallaran Officer Nic gave me to paint about a year and a half ago.
I've a Lexmechanic done.
And I couldn't resist doing a Death Cult Assassin because the model is just awesome.
I'm also working here and there on an Imperial Bastion, but there's not much to see yet.
I've also started puttering with a War Machine Bloat Thrall which will probably wind up going into Sean's army of Nurgly stuff.
In terms of current projects though, the main one I'm working on is my Lootas, at least for the moment.
Back In Barrie......For A Couple Of Weeks
Well, I think 'whirlwind' would be an apt description for the last while with me.
Work picked up from busy to nuts on quite a few fronts. I've divorced myself from the 'Client Who Shall Not Be Named' and one of our sites and dived into a brand new one. Bright House is picking up again in terms of training and the like, so I'm working updates and recursive training across four sites, seven teams and three countries. It's crazy busy, but my team is full of super stars. As insane as it is, we're making it look easy and it's pretty fun.
We've started work for Comcast in San Antonio and I'll be heading down there to train in a couple of weeks, so I'm on to the pre-planning and running reviews for my team on top of everything else before I leave. It's been a while since I've done a site opening, so I'm looking forward to that. I've never been to Texas before and it looks like a really cool area. Definitely taking in the Alamo, northern Mexico and Corpus Christi while I'm there. Looks like I'll be coming in to a nice jazz festival when I land too, so that's good. If anyone can suggest some other things to see, by all means, let me know.
I returned from Niagara Falls (more accurately Tonawanda) on Thursday. Good visit overall, saw the Falls and things like that again, but I was much more excited to meet my team. Great bunch in that site too, I'm happy to say. Went to some neat places and got to hang out with some very cool people.
Late in August, I got word that my Dad had been in for kidney surgery, so I packed off to Owen Sound for a couple of weeks. Spending some time with my family and with the team in Owen Sound was a pretty good thing all things being equal. It was a double boon since I'm not sure when I'll be back in Canada.
On the modeling front, it's been stop and start to a greater or lesser degree. I've been working on two boxes of Lootas for a couple of weeks now. It turns out that speed painting isn't my strong suit these days. I think I've been spoiled by too many HQ type units.
At any rate, the bodies of the Lootas are done and I'm working on the rest of the mob in pairs. If things go well, I might even have a couple finished up today or Monday.
On the other side of things, I've pretty much been working to get old projects off of my desk. Of course, me being me, I've managed to sneak in a few of those models which I really wanted to paint.
I finished up the Tallaran Officer Nic gave me to paint about a year and a half ago.
I've a Lexmechanic done.
And I couldn't resist doing a Death Cult Assassin because the model is just awesome.
I'm also working here and there on an Imperial Bastion, but there's not much to see yet.
I've also started puttering with a War Machine Bloat Thrall which will probably wind up going into Sean's army of Nurgly stuff.
In terms of current projects though, the main one I'm working on is my Lootas, at least for the moment.
Work picked up from busy to nuts on quite a few fronts. I've divorced myself from the 'Client Who Shall Not Be Named' and one of our sites and dived into a brand new one. Bright House is picking up again in terms of training and the like, so I'm working updates and recursive training across four sites, seven teams and three countries. It's crazy busy, but my team is full of super stars. As insane as it is, we're making it look easy and it's pretty fun.
We've started work for Comcast in San Antonio and I'll be heading down there to train in a couple of weeks, so I'm on to the pre-planning and running reviews for my team on top of everything else before I leave. It's been a while since I've done a site opening, so I'm looking forward to that. I've never been to Texas before and it looks like a really cool area. Definitely taking in the Alamo, northern Mexico and Corpus Christi while I'm there. Looks like I'll be coming in to a nice jazz festival when I land too, so that's good. If anyone can suggest some other things to see, by all means, let me know.
I returned from Niagara Falls (more accurately Tonawanda) on Thursday. Good visit overall, saw the Falls and things like that again, but I was much more excited to meet my team. Great bunch in that site too, I'm happy to say. Went to some neat places and got to hang out with some very cool people.
Late in August, I got word that my Dad had been in for kidney surgery, so I packed off to Owen Sound for a couple of weeks. Spending some time with my family and with the team in Owen Sound was a pretty good thing all things being equal. It was a double boon since I'm not sure when I'll be back in Canada.
On the modeling front, it's been stop and start to a greater or lesser degree. I've been working on two boxes of Lootas for a couple of weeks now. It turns out that speed painting isn't my strong suit these days. I think I've been spoiled by too many HQ type units.
At any rate, the bodies of the Lootas are done and I'm working on the rest of the mob in pairs. If things go well, I might even have a couple finished up today or Monday.
On the other side of things, I've pretty much been working to get old projects off of my desk. Of course, me being me, I've managed to sneak in a few of those models which I really wanted to paint.
I finished up the Tallaran Officer Nic gave me to paint about a year and a half ago.
I've a Lexmechanic done.
And I couldn't resist doing a Death Cult Assassin because the model is just awesome.
I'm also working here and there on an Imperial Bastion, but there's not much to see yet.
I've also started puttering with a War Machine Bloat Thrall which will probably wind up going into Sean's army of Nurgly stuff.
In terms of current projects though, the main one I'm working on is my Lootas, at least for the moment.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
It's Been One Hot Couple Of Weeks
That's about all I can say there, we've had a little heat wave and I don't do that well in heat. Surprisingly enough, I was alright up until last weekend. Brutally hot would describe the weather. I painted outside most of Saturday and the air conditioning felt good when I came in. On the plus side, my unit of Burnas is finished, capped off with a Mekboy I gave a looted Doomsiren too because it was fun. My last Crusader is done. I got a good start on Ghazdgkull and the Warp Spider Exarch which has been sitting on my desk for 18 months. Just finished that one up tonight. It's good to have it done.
I've been a little out of the photography mood of late, so I haven't gotten pictures of the models yet. A task for later this week I suppose. I'm going to take care of a Skull Probe next for a little change of pace and a small project, then I'll start drilling out the torson on the Ork Boss.
I've been a little out of the photography mood of late, so I haven't gotten pictures of the models yet. A task for later this week I suppose. I'm going to take care of a Skull Probe next for a little change of pace and a small project, then I'll start drilling out the torson on the Ork Boss.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Busy Times
Things have been pretty busy since I returned from Waterloo. Work's ramping up, well still and looking at doing the campaign at Sean's next weekend means that I have to have the campaign booklet done and the appropriate miniatures. Means lots of front loaded work. Should be fun though. Ivan gave me a Magic deck too, which was nice. Turns out there are a few other cards I'd like to have, so I'll get those, but I should be more than good to go once my little box is filled up.
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