Heading back to Nashville
June 26, 2008I’ve been in the Bay Area this past week, attending some training at a software vendor here. Did a little sight-seeing the weekend before the class started, and of course managed to take some photos.
I’m sitting how at the Mineta airport, in San Jose. I decided to take this airport because it was closest to the training, and it’s smaller than either SFO or Oakland. So much less crowded.
As you might expect from an airport in the heart of Silicon Valley, they’ve got free wi-fi. And it is fast — this is probably the fastest public wi-fi I’ve used. I ran the CNET bandwidth tester and it gave me a reading of almost 1400 kbps. Pretty darned fast even for a private wi-fi, let alone a big shared wi-fi network like this one.
Travel is going to take me a while today because I have a 3-hour layover in Denver. At least the timing is pretty good — I’ll arrive in Nashville around 5:15 p.m. Which means by the time we deplane and I gather my luggage from the carousel it will probably be 6 p.m., late enough to avoid the rush hour but still early enough that I have time to run some errands. Time to do stuff instead of just heading home and collapsing into bed.
The training class unfortunately wasn’t worth it. I gave it a “No” on the evaluation, where they asked whether I would recommand the course. Biggest problem was our instructor. A really nice guy, but he admitted he’d only been with the company a couple months. And it showed — for any questions even remotely outside the text he had to keep calling in the lead instructor to help out. At least the lead guy was there, otherwise we’d have gotten very little value out of the course.
Well, I am looking forward to being home, to sleeping in my own bed. Even if it does mean I have to go in to work on Friday.