Life's a stage

On Wednesday morning at 8am, I was on stage talking to about 100 presales people from across Asia Pacific and Japan.  11 hours and 3000kms later I was in the audience, watching Alice and Felicity perform in their school concert.  They did an excellent job and I was so pleased I made it on time.

I spent the last week in Guangzhou, China at an internal conference for HP Software and Solutions.  It was a great chance to get together with my colleagues from around the Asia Pacific region and a definite highlight was the Presales Managers beating all the Sales Manager teams at the Formula 1 car building and racing activity.  We had to measure and cut out different pieces of the car from thick cardboard, construct the vehicle and then race against the other teams.  In our semi-final, the competitor's vehicle collapsed, making us the easy winner.  Imagine our dismay when the organiser made us immediately re-race again against another team, who beat us by a car length.  All was put right when Anthony Nonnis from Australia talked the organiser into giving us another chance, which the other teams voted on as being ok.  We then pushed through for a clear victory in the final!