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I´ve uploaded the first bunch of photos from Las Vegas:

Nothing is real in this city. It´s a copy. Albeit it´s an archievement to copy on such a scale, it misses something ... i wasn´t able to find something like a soul ... It´s really strange to look on the miniature Eiffel Tower. I was at and on the real tower some weeks ago, so i have a comparision: The real one breathes history, the Las Vegas one is just backdrop. I don´t like this city, it looks like a bunch of shopping malls, hotels and casinos with some urban areas for the people working in the first. On my tenth Starbucks mug there is the tagline "Capital of entertainment". I would change it into "capital of copy"

PS: Well i´ve shoot dozens of photos today while walking on both sides of the strip ... expect really a vast amount.

Bad thing: My meeting was canceled due a really bad cold (according to voice) by the customer. The good: For the leg between Frankfurt and Denver i´ve got an emergency exit row seat. It doesn´t get better than that in Economy. Legroom galore. Row 26 is the best you can get in an A340-600 according to the usual websites. Yippie !

At this time in seven days, i will be at the Sun Customer Engineering Conference 2007 in Las Vegas, and i´m starting to prepare things the travel for the event. Yesterday my FTL card arrived, so this may fasten up things a little bit at the checkin and the security.

In an attempt of insanity, i´ve scheduled a customer meeting late at friday in Berlin. Thus i fly from Berlin instead of Hamburg. Is quite a trip this time: From Berlin to Frankfurt, from Frankfurt to Denver (hey, my first flight in a A340-600) and from there to Las Vegas. And on the backhaul from Vegas to San Francisco, from San Francisco to Frankfurt and then back to Berlin.

I´ve spend almost all miles in my account to get a business class upgrade for the leg between SFO and FRA. But until now, they didn´t want my miles: No confirmation so far. I assume this will be a quite awful trip back as the last time: With 1,92cm any known economy seat in any known airline is just to small (things will be better in A380 as far as i know, but this doesn´t help next saturday). I hope, that i´m able to gather a exit row seat or it´s likely that my mood will be abyssimal when arriving ...

PS: I even finally found my passport last week but now my appartment looks like after a bomb explosion.