Work routine

So, it seems that i've settled into a nice work routine.
The customer site is about 15 minutes walk from the hotel. Turns out Auckland is rather hilly (and hot), so for the past couple days my coworker and I have been trying to optimize the walk to work for "shortness and flatness". This involves walking through a park, jaywalking and cutting through a few sketchy alleys. But it's worth it.

A few side notes on Auckland and New Zealand:

1. Cars are right-hand-drive. That means crossing a street is a challenge, since instinctively you always look left instead of right. Makes for a lot of funny moments.
   
2. It's hot here. And the ozone hole is right above you. As a result, you burn. I need to learn how to use sunscreen.
   
3. Customer is not king. I'm staying at a fancy Hyatt. However, either people here are too laid-back, or not so keen on service and IT. It took them 4 days to get my broken Internet connection fixed (ie get a new modem. instead, they offered me a new cable, a power transformer, and some chocolates). Then it took them about 5 days to fix my toilet (it was 2-time use. after 2 flushes you had to call housekeeping to get it fixed again). I'm still waiting for my "you have new message" voicemail indicator to be reset (i'm pretty certain there are no voicemails)
4. Food and drinks are expensive. When you translate it to $US, you get SF-like prices. For example, cocktails at a reasonable bar are about $10-15NZ each (that's $7-12US)
   
5. Nobody jaywalks. very inefficient

Anyway, these are potentially biased - i'm staying in a fancy hotel, i'm hanging out with older out-of-town coworkers. Perhaps once i discover non-fancy local places things will be different.

So my daily routine:

1. go to work
2. come back, jog around town (sun sets really late, around 9pm). Auckland has a ton of parks, and the big one (Auckland Domain) is very close to the hotel
3. Have dinner with coworkers
4. Drink with same coworkers

So far, it's been fun.