Day 2 in the USA. Number of Donuts eaten = 3. Number of different variety’s of Margaritas consumed = 4. Number of Quesadillas eaten = 12.
Yesterday was 4th July – American Independence Day – so naturally like any good holiday day, it rained, really really hard, here in Houston, TX. Like most things they do here in the States, even the rain was bigger and nastier than anything I’ve seen before – it was instantly flood time!
Early in the day I realised I’d left my UK/US plug adaptor at home and I needed to charge up my arsenal of electronic devices – so we headed up to Fry’s – a local Electronic store – to see if we could source one. To call Fry’s an Electronic store is like calling an Skyscraper a fairly tall building – this place was HUGE! It had literally everything! Now we’ve got PC World and Curry’s in the UK – which are certainly handy to visit, but it always breaks my heart when I need to pop out to urgently source a USB Cable I know I could buy on-line for £0.89, but have to slap down £14.99 for the privilege of buying it from PC World. When can we have a Fry’s in the UK? Everything was reasonably priced, including cables, and they even sold circuit boards, capacitors and other ultra-geeky stuff!
From an early part of the day we spotted lots of local parties – but we headed into Houston itself to visit Matt’s wife Stephanie’s work place which is located on Floor 7 of a high-rise office block. This gave the perfect unobstructed view of downtime Houston where we sat and watched the barrage of Fireworks across the City. Really impressive stuff, and we had a good time. After debating the USA’s Independence from the evil British (I can forgive a country for wanting to be independent, but I can’t forgive that terrible waste of tea when the Colonials dumped it into the river – especially as it’s so hard to now buy PG Tips here in the US as a result!) I sat lamenting the loss of the British Empire, waving a five pound note to uphold the Queens Honour whilst concocting my own British Celebration Day – Subjugation Day!
I suspect it may not take off as a National Holiday though, but we’ll see.
Richard Tubb is one of the best-known experts within the global IT Managed Service Provider (MSP) community. He launched and sold his own MSP business before creating a leading MSP media and consultancy practice. Richard helps IT business owner’s take back control by freeing up their time and building a business that can run without them. He’s the author of the book “The IT Business Owner’s Survival Guide” and writer of the award-winning blog www.tubblog.co.uk
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