Tuesday April 13th

OK, Tuesday was a pretty normal work day which means it wasn't great for pictures. The trip to Las Vegas later this week should provided better pictures. When you travel you will end up eating at tons of chain restaurants in strip malls. The upside is that you can get the same Subway sandwich in Colorado that you get in Minnesota. The downside is that Subway sucks.
I worked in restaurants in college and I learned a lot working there. Most people are nice to the people that bring them food. Those that aren't are the kind of people that are never happy about anything. The sooner you learn that these people like to be miserable and it has nothing to do with you, the happier you will be in life.

If your goal in life is to have an office with your name on it, consulting is probably not for you. There are some good things to be said for having a "permanent" job, but not many.

So my desk at the office is not much different from the one at the airport. Laptop, Droid, briefcase and mouse. I am connected to their network so I don't have to use my wireless card, but otherwise no big differences.

So here is the bartender that served me dinner. When I travel alone I eat at the bar sometimes. Its quicker, easier and you often have someone to talk to. Alyssa has her college degree and is working for a start-up on stem cell research. My bartender at Sullivan's in Denver had his MBA. You never know the story of someone until you ask them. I am often surprised that some of the assumptions I make about people are completely wrong.

How about some pictures of what I am working on? I am in Colorado working with a laser company, Spectranetics.
This is a catheter that clears out clogged arteries in the legs. This is used on people with diabetes and it has actually allowed people to keep their feet when they were scheduled for amputation.

This is a laser catheter that is used to remove old pacemaker leads. Some people have multiple leads in them from old pacemakers or defibrillators. Pacemaker replacements are also a source of infection and removing the pacer and the lead is a recommended treatment for severe infections.