Back in Reno

First, I need to say that trying to keep two blogs going (I also blog on my MySpace page) is a bit tedious. Not sure how long I will be able to keep doing it! So, what I have included below is a post from my MySpace blog on my first morning in Reno (Tuesday, November 27th). It was very early in the morning (4:35am) and my body had not yet adjusted to being on Pacific time. Hell, even today, I woke up far earlier than I wanted to!! I will do my best to keep this blog updated, but no promises!!


We arrived in Reno yesterday with very little trouble. We were delayed by about 45 minutes flying out of Philly yesterday morning, but had plenty of time to get our connection out of Las Vegas to arrive here in Reno shortly after 3:00pm local time (Nevada is in the Pacific time zone). After picking up our luggage and the rental car, we headed on over to the hotel to check in.

Let me say, the staff working the front desk when we arrived was GREAT!!! As we were all getting checked in, we mentioned that we were talking about where we wanted to go for dinner. I mentioned The Steakhouse at Harrah's in downtown Reno, and Keith and Kavia were both up for that. Well, the kid at the front desk (I use kid here because he looked pretty young!!) heard our conversation and offered to make the dinner reservation for us - certainly not the service I expected, but it was most welcome!! With any luck, that same level of service will continue throughout our four week stay! Since it was still rather early (not even 5:00pm, local time) we decided that we should have dinner around 7:00pm so that we would have some time to get settled, freshen up, etc.

I must say, I am rather pleased with the room and the hotel. It is very clean, completely non-smoking, and rather quiet. They offer a full complimentary breakfast every morning, and happy hour nearly every weekday night with beer, wine, and soda. The services they offer are really great, too (give them your shopping list, and they will go do your grocery shopping - no fee, you only pay the cost of the groceries themselves!), since the type of hotel we are in (a Residence Inn) lends itself to longer-term stays.

So, we start work today - making sure the training room is all set up and the connections are good to go, that we have all of the supplies that we need, and taking some time to listen to the folks we will be training as they take phone calls since neither Keith nor Kavia has had the chance to do that yet. On Wednesday, we start training and I cannot wait!!


So, it is now Wednesday, we complted our first day of training and things went rather well. So far, so good!! Just 11 more days of training and a total of 17 more days with the staff. I am really enjoying being back here and know that the time is going to pass by far too quickly!!