Hello from Centennial, CO
Wednesday evening — December 16, 2015 (First post of this travelogue)
I am in Centennial, CO for an NTT assignment. This was a public class held at the NTT office. I am teaching my favorite class: Mechanical Drives. We only have two students in class, but that is still working out well for me.
NTT recently purchased all new training equipment and our lab manual had to be revised to reflect this equipment. I was retained to re-write the manual and this is the first test of the document. It is about 100 pages long with lots of pictures of the equipment and processes. So far, there have not been any significant issues with the lab book (thank goodness!!!)
This is a three day class and we finish tomorrow.
NTT has always been good to put me in a hotel when I teach at their facility. This time I am at the Staybridge Suites. It is a good hotel and part of the Holiday Inn organization. Their breakfast is better than Holiday Inn.
It was a good thing they had me stay close to the office. I arrived Monday afternoon and the weather was fine. However, overnight it snowed very hard – so bad that they closed all of the Denver area school systems. I made it to the office reasonably easily – thank goodness I had the Durango. They closed many of the roads in the Denver area at various times and I would have had a terrible time getting to the office from home.
I was originally scheduled to teach a class in the Las Vegas area this week. I was not looking forward to flying this time of year. With all the snow, DIA had several hundred cancelled flights and I might not have made it to the assignment.
That is all for this trip.