We were not going to start until the afternoon so I went over Tuesday morning and setup. In the afternoon I had about 30 people that I demoed to and answered questions for. The session lasted about 4.5 hours!
On Wednesday the same folks came by when they could and played on the program and I helped when they needed it.
On Wednesday afternoon I was on a call for about an hour learning how to navigate the Sony Virtual show floor (more on that next week) :)
This was the room we were in... it got to be a tight fit.
This is Harry Friedman the Sales Rep for the area... it was nice to get to know him better.
At lunch on Tuesday Harry and I went to lunch with two of the gentlemen from the TV Station and the conversation came around to the Dallas Cowboys Stadium. It turns out that his dad was the pioneer in developing the film coaching technique. This is where you film the games, cut the film into different type of plays, and then the different coaches can learn from the films.
Because of this they have had four season tickets on the 45 yard line 30 rows up for years,,, decades!
When the new Stadium was started Jerry Jones (the owner of the Cowboys) decided to show his thanks for all of the fans that have had season tickets for years by forcing them to purchase the right to by season tickets.
What that means is that If he had 4 season tickets in the past at Texas Stadium that I would have to buy the basic seat and THEN pay for the tickets themselves. How much are the seats? $50,000 EACH!!!
To keep his four season tickets he would have to pay $200,000.00... $200,000.00!
What makes it worse? The tickets themselves per seat, per game is $350.00. So he would have to pay 1,400.00 per game for tickets. Totally insane!!
Joel Scarbrough is a TSS like I am and is learning more about EDIUS everyday. He is a very nice guy when he is not sleeping! :)
When it was slow I had time to work with Mail and other things... To many computers being used at once!!
On Thursday I flew into Phoenix and instead of finishing my flight to Salt Lake I stayed there, rented a car, drove to the house where my oldest son Chris lives, loaded the car with his stuff, and started to drive to Salt Lake.
Chris is moving up to Utah with us and you can find out more about that by going to Lorena's blog that is listed in the right hand Column of my blog.
All I can say is that it took 11 hours to drive and We had a great time. We talked the entire time and only listened to music quietly for about an hour.
We beat the Snow Storm by just minutes so that made me happy not to have to driven in it for a few hours! :)
On the way out we saw the new Cardinal Stadium.
We stopped for a few minutes at Hoover Damn and I got a shot of Chris over looking the Lake side of the Damn.
They are building a new bridge over the Damn for security reasons and they have been working on it for YEARS! As you can see it is not even close to being finished and it is going to be really high up there!! It will be interesting to drive over it when it is done.
1 comment:
I always did prefer watching football from my couch. I only had to pay for it once.
Mike. It's dam. Dam. Hoover Dam. Mother never let us use that other word. I had to move away and have children before I was allowed. Just because one of your children was in the picture does NOT give you license. And anyway, I am older than you.
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