Quick Trip to Africa

For the past two years my team leader at Chevron has been telling me that he had to get me to Lagos, Nigeria. Something about more exposure, as for me, I had already been there two times (2000 and 2003) with the Agbami team and figured that was enough. Well, he finally found a great opportunity and convinced me that it was for my good, plus it was an opportunity for me to promote some software and workflow techniques that I really believe in something that is extremely important for me in order to “sell” something (I’m sure that’s why I hated to go out and get new subscriptions for the ol’ “Salt Lake Tribune”, I delivered their product but was not believe in it!). So off I went to present our Teams new “trade secret” iRAVE at a company only Technical Poster Session. Turned out good, got to see some old friends (even had lunch with Barbie and Ken!) and made new ones while promoting iRAVE and our production mapping workflows. Only had my I phone which was okay cause I was not in a picture taking mood. So what you see below is about it! The Nigeria International airport. A nice walk from there to our shuttle ride.

My Hotel room from the front door. The place had some nice material, granite sink, Teak wood furniture and even a flat screen TV. However really lacked the craftmanship in putting it all together. See the bathroom shot below for example.

Notice the fine patch job next to john.
This little jewel kept the TV going (but nothing else) when the power would go out which was at least twice a day. I guess they have their priorities!