Virtual visit to India - way too much quality time with tech support

Here is a virtual visit. I spent a LOT of time today on the phone with Microsoft tech support engineers in Pune, India. Very nice people, one woman and one man. The woman was on the graveyard shift until around 6 AM local time, and then the fellow took over.

So, while we were on the phone (waiting for a messed up Windows 2008 server to reboot slooooooowly again and again) we talked a lot. Pune is surrounded by medium-size mountains, they have lots of parks and greenery, they speak very good English (which I am grateful for, since I speak none of the 108 languages of India), and they have a Big Barn Burger Cafe. The gent has never been there, but he recognized the place. I suspect the young woman before him had never heard of it until I read it to her off the Google Maps.

Pune is three hours from Mumbai. If you look at the Google map, you will see that, on the scale of india, Mumbai is a stone's throw away. That distance is about the Seattle-Portland run. In other words, India is friggin' HUGE.

So, there you go. The world is smaller than you think :)

M.I.L.O - Goodbye 09

M.I.L.O - Goodbye 09

Watch it. Share it. Honor your military personnel.

Met Milo at GI Film Fest in May, 2011. Great guy with a huge heart. Miracle he's still alive. Just watched this again and it needs to be shared.