Inside OpenNMS

So, if you at all follow Tarus’ blog, you already must know that we’ve set out, “today”, on our little tour of Europe as we make our way to the TeleManagement Forum. I say today, because even though we left the East coast yesterday, it was actually today, GMT.

Day 1, we are fortunate to be staying in a beautiful home in a beautiful part of England, Lyndhust, Hampshire, owned by a couple that are friends of OpenNMS and truly gracious hosts. Their home has a beautiful garden and solarium where we spent a good portion of the day when we weren’t out walking about town.

It was suggested that, while we are here, Tarus and I should each acquire transportation to roam about the country side. Based on the obvious success of OpenNMS, we were at first offered these (I chose the red, Tarus, the blue):

but when they investigated our purchasing power, we quickly offered this:

So, our travel won’t be as fast, but it doesn’t require petrol for fuel and even though we won’t be turning the heads of the young ladies of Lyndhurst, making the mistake of driving on the wrong (err, correct) side of the road won’t be nearly as dangerous.

Tomorrow, we’re headed back to London to meet more friends of OpenNMS and, hopefully, find time to put the final touches on our seminar, the first of which that starts Monday.

Cheers!

Hey, just a quick comment to show off my daughter’s artistic ability with a new blog header image. (My blog header image is now from drawing she did based on a story I told her about brozow and I crashing in massage chairs at London Gatwick airport.

He and I had taken a last minute trip to a customer site to finish up some custom development (the model importer, actually). We were so exhausted we just took over the massage chairs and tried to catchup on some sleep. We were suffering from the result of trying to save money on last minute booking that forced us into a 10 hour layover.

Hey Brozow, wasn’t that was fun?! Hope your Italy trip is more relaxing… other than that 3 hour delay in NYC sitting on the runway.