Time to collect myself
... is something I do not appear to have currently. I have managed to write this as it is presently 5:30 and jet lag has caught up with me.
Despite typical levels of incompetency form Quantas administrative personnel I have arrived in Porto Alegre. I am sure Quantas training involves strict instructions to provide any response which removes customers from your presence above the importance of trivial details such as the truth or your knowledge regarding the issue at hand.
I found it both amusing and depressing that the in flight music contained typical CDDA corruption, particularly as the album I was listing to was Radiohead's In Rainbows*. TAM airlines also thought it was a good idea to drastically limit the movie selection in cattle class, because clearly customers would pay for business class to watch a certain movie in awful quality on a pathetic screen rather than just switch airlines. They were, however, far more helpful than Virgin staff when I passed out on them during the flight. Apparently long flights and me do not mix.
Initial impressions of Brazil are not too different from my expectations. Most notably the definition for 'queue' is more akin to my definition for 'mob'. This results in a lot of pushing around, which is in fact required of any visitors also if you intend to make it to the check in counter before your flight leaves.
Dinner was first had at an airport and choices were limited so Pizza Hut was considered a lesser evil. There are three flavours of pizza and one size - too big. You need not trouble yourself with carb levels and so forth though, all of the additional mass is sodium chloride.
Traffic here consists of small cheap European style cars, and big trucks which all look like they are from the 50s, even if they are new. Despite the factory being 500m away from the hotel it is strongly suggested I take a taxi. Even the factory workers are afraid to walk around at night here. I am told there is a slum just across the road though I really have not had a chance to see anything.
Work is taking all of my time, and I do not really want to go into details, but suffice to say things are NOT going to plan and I have a new life experience seeing an IDE cable catch fire.
* Famous for it's digital distribution
Despite typical levels of incompetency form Quantas administrative personnel I have arrived in Porto Alegre. I am sure Quantas training involves strict instructions to provide any response which removes customers from your presence above the importance of trivial details such as the truth or your knowledge regarding the issue at hand.
I found it both amusing and depressing that the in flight music contained typical CDDA corruption, particularly as the album I was listing to was Radiohead's In Rainbows*. TAM airlines also thought it was a good idea to drastically limit the movie selection in cattle class, because clearly customers would pay for business class to watch a certain movie in awful quality on a pathetic screen rather than just switch airlines. They were, however, far more helpful than Virgin staff when I passed out on them during the flight. Apparently long flights and me do not mix.
Initial impressions of Brazil are not too different from my expectations. Most notably the definition for 'queue' is more akin to my definition for 'mob'. This results in a lot of pushing around, which is in fact required of any visitors also if you intend to make it to the check in counter before your flight leaves.
Dinner was first had at an airport and choices were limited so Pizza Hut was considered a lesser evil. There are three flavours of pizza and one size - too big. You need not trouble yourself with carb levels and so forth though, all of the additional mass is sodium chloride.
Traffic here consists of small cheap European style cars, and big trucks which all look like they are from the 50s, even if they are new. Despite the factory being 500m away from the hotel it is strongly suggested I take a taxi. Even the factory workers are afraid to walk around at night here. I am told there is a slum just across the road though I really have not had a chance to see anything.
Work is taking all of my time, and I do not really want to go into details, but suffice to say things are NOT going to plan and I have a new life experience seeing an IDE cable catch fire.
* Famous for it's digital distribution
posted by Bruce at 1:20 am
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