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I’m hanging out in the lobby of the Westin Hotel catching up on a bit of work. The day’s going pretty much as I expected - this Investor Day is great… but the sessions are so long. All the media dudes are only surfacing into the demonstration area during the breaks, and before and after. So they went back in for the arvo session at 12:30, and aren’t due out again unti 4:30pm. Great chance for me to catch up on some work and grab some afternoon tea and coffee on the Amex… but I can’t help but feel I possibly could’ve been more productive today. Just a little though - the rest of me is enjoying being around all this hype very much.

What was funny is that every guest today was issued with an umbrella. You see, at this event last year, the fire sprinklers randomly turned themselves on and saturated our CEO :)

This all finishes up about 4:30 this arvo, and then I’m trotting across a few streets back to my building for the launch of the Telstra Experience Centre. This is what I’ve been looking forward to. Tonight will be a much more interactive and interesting evening, and I get to wander round randomly and just show off a couple of new handsets - one of which is the Samsung A821, this cool widescreen handset with a tiny qwerty keyboard. Pity it has no corporate email options (ActiveSync email or similar), otherwise it’d fly in the corporate world. They’re pushing this handset with the new Mobile Foxtel stuff which has been upped to 31 channels from 12, and added in a mini EPG for the mobile side of Foxtel. Quite cool. So I’m just gonna be wandering around tonight watching various bits of Foxtel, I think.

Annnnd… just to make the girls jealous, we’re supposedly demonstrating these handsets alongside a couple of Telstra Ambassadors. And the three that will be attending tonight are Brooke Hanson, Petro Civinocevia… and Nathan Hindmarsh :)

I guess the only crap thing about tonight will be that I won’t be home until 10 or 11 tonight. And I have too much on tomorrow, so I can’t scab a day working from home.

Have I mentioned that I love my job? :)

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