Last week I made my last trip to England for Toshiba. Since I was in the office over parts of two weeks, my original idea was to go somewhere really beautiful over the weekend, like the Clarendon Way between Salisbury and Winchester, or part of the South Downs Way. But the weather was so fabulous the entire time I was there – about 25 degrees and sunny every day – and Cambridge is such a beautiful town, that by Friday I had decided that there wasn't any need to go anywhere else. Of course, by Friday, World Cup group play had determined that the U.S. was to play Saturday evening and England Sunday afternoon, so that also made it difficult to
I arrived back in Taipei at 11PM on Wednesday. On Thursday morning at 9AM, I arrived at HTC's Xindian offices, conveniently located three minutes away from our new apartment by taxi. There, I had spent an hour in the HR department when Chieni called to say that she had badly hurt her back and couldn't walk! So I rushed back home and drove her to the hospital, where they they couldn't do anything, and so said she just needed to go home and rest. However, when we tried to drive home, we discovered that the car wouldn't shift out of park! So Chieni took a taxi home, and I spent two hours in the company of a grumpy tow truck driver who couldn't tow the car because it was parked in an underground parking lot with a height limit that was too low for his truck. He eventually called a friend who showed up in a beat-up sedan that towed our car to the parking lot entrance, from where the tow truck driver was able to tow the car to a garage. It turned out that a small $15 part in the brake system electronics had broken, thereby disabling the system that requires the driver to put his foot on the brake in order to shift into drive. So in summary, I took my first day at HTC off as a personal day. On Thursday, I managed a full day of work, so I'm at 50% so far. Hopefully I can increase that percentage next week.
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