Another biz trip, this time to Lifescan/ALZA. Though in all fairness it's been about a year and i haven't been made to go to New Jersey in 3-4 years. Now i just have to wait for the captain to get on board... KSAN, Commuter terminal. save file: small medium large | 2/3 of the way to San Jose (SJC) i saw some of the big fires of July 2008. Here's something on fire down below. A bunch of dry t-storms sparked like 3000 fires in the region. Somewhere over california save file: small medium large | Probably over the outer marker for SJC. On final for SJC save file: small medium large | So i always stop by the TNF store when i come up this way. If i have to take a 1/2 day then so be it! I'm going... Berkeley, CA save file: small medium large | Ho-hum, driving on the 880 or something like that. Near the docks. Oakland?, CA save file: small medium large | The Dunbarton bridge heading west. Fremont-ish, CA save file: small medium large | Once proud location of ALZA corp, subsidary of Johnson & Johnson. Until we changed our minds about the absolute disaster of a purchase and fired them all. We got back $100m for the land on the $12B purchase or something like that... The googlers are next door... and will be moving in soon. I think they scoffed at our infrastructure... Mountain View, CA save file: small medium large | Ilgiz Yamilov, one of the guys who used to work for me when i was ALZA. A good guy, he's now NCS/ITS supporting Lifescan. M3, Mountain View, CA save file: small medium large | So I'm here for A21 coach training. I'm supposed to mentor folks and stuff in a little while... yeah, i'm turning into a corporate monkey... Milpitas, CA save file: small medium large | I've stayed in a lot worse. It is nice traveling on J&J's dime. I'm going middle of the road for expenses, we're having hard times and i'm lucky(?) to have a job... Milpitas, CA save file: small medium large | Leaving SJC to go back home... San Jose, CA save file: small medium large |