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Thoughts of San Antonio before real work begins again

A quick round-trip to San Antonio, TX for some R5 to R6 upgrades proved successful.  Quite successful with Rightfax and Blackberry tossed in for good measure.  I had time to have some good eats, pictures and sights.  Here is the rundown, links and picture info from this trip:

• Lunch the first day at Mi Tierra (Cafe y Panaderia) where the giant bowl of Tortilla Soup, chicken enchiladas and the obligatory rice, beans, chips and salsa.  I got some pics of the inside you can see in the photo album.  They never close and the bakery had some cookies and things that made you drool.
• A quick trip through the Mexican market, an outdoor sight with live music and little shops.  I hesitated buying since I only brought an overnight bag an toting back more stuff when I am trying to get rid of junk at the new house didn't make sense.  Pictures tell it all for the memory.  (Special note to Troy: pictures of me at the ATM don't always turn out the best now do they, lol)
• A siesta for two hours lead to head over to Riverwalk for dinner at Michelino's.  Normal Italian, but eating along what they have as the river was cool.  It sits below San Antonio downtown and if you had just drove through you would never expect.  All the downtown hotels connect and lead down to it, plus numerous stairways and the mall.  We walked for w while from the mall wondering where the heck everyone was headed or coming from since it just looked like a long pathway along the river with some boat tours on it.  The river is only wide enough for two to three large tour boats to cross paths and is not very deep.  As we turned a corner we definitely discovered the secret.  Restaurant upon restaurant, bars and some vendors.  They restaurants sit so close with the outdoor seating that if you do pay attention to railings or sometimes umbrella covers one might think it is one place in some areas.  Yet we walked most of it end to end before just stopping due to hunger and good seating open.  There was a couple well terraced places that extended way up a hill with rows of tables to eat but had the fine tablecloths out.  Needless to say it was tour day and I was underdressed to partake those.  One peculiar thing I witnessed was a table of 6 people next to us finish dinner together and 4 of them get up to walk away all on their cell phones.  One more notch in the belt of why I take my technology free week.  The management of the company we are headed to work on in the am below doesn't even like email, much rather IM, since they say it takes away form people getting up from their desk and actually talking to one another.  Interesting but they have been in business over 150 years.  So they know something.
• Hit the customer site early in the morning, moved the Domino servers to new blade hardware and upgraded them to 6.5.4 with no real issues.  One issue with a supposed ODS error according to the technote, but we solved it by renaming the original to .ns4, replicating the mailfile to the same server with .nsf and that cured the corruption and made it ODS 43 for ND6.  Rightfax has some polling issues but we left that as SWB decided they wanted to do maintenance on all inbound DID lines at the same time so we couldn't test inbound faxes either.
• We finished by lunch but hit the Alamo first to get more pictures and just add it to the list of places to have been and seen.  it included s stop in the Toy Soldier shop outside the Alamo for some very cool whole battle arrangements.
• Lunch was at Ibiza's (part of the Hilton Palacio Del Rio) just to sit inside.  Walking around the Alamo and Riverwalk took away the fun as it was getting hot.

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On Saturday, September 10th, 2005   by Chris Miller        

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