In Singapore

After 16 hours of flying and 2 hours of crying, I’m here! I actually landed this morning at 2am or so and the last few hours was spent listening to a 3 year old or so decide that he wanted to be pissed off at flying, parental units, food, whatever. I gotta tell ya. If there is one thing that is irritating, dismaying, and leaves one with the desire to get off the plane; its a howling kid at 30k feet with 1.5 hours to go of flight. No sleep, no ipod, nothing could dim that kids bulb. He had to just let everyone in coach know that he was unhappy with it all.

It takes a bit of time to get here folks. Singapore is not some easy jaunt from SFO. My flight was from SF0 11 hours to Inchon in Korea and then another 6 hours from Inchon to Singapore. Going back, I’m gonna change the flights out a bit and fly into Hong Kong for a few nights and then go back home. I’ve never been to Hong Kong so I’m excited. Never actually been to any of the places I’m going this time so its all good!

BTW, I’m staying at the Royal Plaza on Scotts here in Singapore. Its a pretty nice hotel. Today, I just hung around here and ate in the hotel. My next stop is India and I’ll be staying at a very interesting place that our India team booked for me there for a week or so. Its called RainTree and it sounds very nice.

The final cool thing is that my friend AFT from the GAP, Linuxcare, and Levanta days is also over in Singapore so we are gonna meet and party down a bit here in SG land. Undoubtedly, the work gang will take us out as well.

Linuxworld Expo

It appears that LWE is coming up again. I am going to go on Wednesday but for the first time in about 5 years, I’ve not arranged a Linuxcare Labs reunion lunch. It feels a bit strange but I think the time has come to move past that. I feel like I’ve moved past a few things around Linux and perhaps that’s okay. My current work is very challenging, fun, and personally motivating; but my “touch time” with Linux is low. I guess I will go to the expo on Wednesday, see how many of my old friends did not show up this year, get a Debian CD, and drink a few beers with those that do show up.