Day 2 of my business trip to Germany started off with me having a fairly lengthy breakfast. Way more than I eat during a regular breakfast during my work week. But boy did that hotel have a lot of stuff to choose from. And I did so take advantage of that. During my breakfast one of my co-workers showed up and joined me. And we did have some work related chat during the breakfast.
After breakfast we checked out of the rooms and waited for one of our colleagues who was running a little behind. We than took a cab to the comapny that were in charge of your accounting software. Found the place without many problems and soon thereafter we sat down in the company's conference room.
They started with their basic introduction about the software. Many of the things they were talking about were complete news for 2 of my co-workers. At least that's much as I gathered from their facial expression. My superior and I had a couple of questions during the period of the software introduction.
But the more we moved on to more complicated taskes of the software the more I stopped the guy and asked him one question after the next. At times I thought I was really slowing him down. But the point was to get as much information out from this business meeting as possible. My 2 other co-workers seemed to be at a loos about the subjects we were talking about. Good thing lunch break was about to start.
We headed over to a local restaurant and had sume very jummy food. And it's always fun having a conversation about non-work related topics. After about 45 minutes we headed back to the conference room.
As it turns out the company who did the inital setup of our accounting software screwed up several times royally. And it will take some convincing to make the boss see, that there are some serious changes necessary. Including changing the company who does the tech-support for the accounting software. We than ventured into mor difficult areas of the software. Especially when it cam the tax related task and tasks of the autu-payment feature for accounts payable and receivable, I really had the impression that 2 of my co-workers were kinda bored. That don't know anything about that. But I asked that guy tons of questions and I really got a stuff of information out. And even while we were there I knew of a nuber of procedures that have to change in order to make things run more smoothly. By 4.30 pm we were done and the cab waited already to pick us up. We headed during rush hour to Stuttgart International airport. Took us about 1 hour to get there. We checked in and grabed a completely overpriced snack to eat. My co-workers did some shopping in the duty free shop and than we headed to the gate. Just to find out that the departure of our flight was going to ge delayed for about 30 to 45 minutes. That really didn't make me a happy camper. But there's noting you can do about that. We did finally make it onboard the plane and it took about 1 hour to get to Vienna. We then got another cab to get back to our company where 2 of my co-workers had their cars parked and I to the cab to my appartment.
By the time I was finally home it was about 9.30 pm. I put some of the clothes away and then grabbed a cold beer out of the fridge and relaxed a little on the couch. But I couldn't really relax at first. There was something very important missing. Daisy was still at the boarding facility. Although Daisy is 17 1/2 years old and her excitement only lasts for very short periods of time...the apartment felt just weird and empty actually. After a late evening snack an a second beer I finally headed to bed. I'm so looking for ward to picking up Daisy from the boarding facility tomorrow. And yes, I really don't like a apartment without dog. It's just too weird.
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