Milwaukee, as in Free Beer and the Brewers

As an original Wisconsin kid myself with my Pa and Brother being born in Milwaukee (myself in Manitowoc), it's definitely exciting to see the Project Blackbox tour hit territory in Wisconsin and Minnesota. I am SHOCKED...I mean SHOCKED to see there are no cheese heads in any of the pictures from Milwaukee. With Brett Favre back for another year and all, this is THE YEAR for the Pack's return to the Super Bowl.

I have a fresh report from Chris Hawver who is touring along with the semi up until Des Moines, Iowa. Chris is excellent at putting pictures and some personality with each stop, so I will simply cut and paste is report in!

(Oh yeah, if anyone has a 300x400 picture of a random shipping container on the planet, could you drop it to me at paul dot monday at sun dot com? You'll see what I'm up to soon!).

We were in Milwaukee today and the weather was the best we have experienced while in the Midwest Area. Sunny and 77 degrees.

The Tour took place at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee at the School of Business, Lubar Hall.

We conducted a "Partners in Profit" breakfast briefing followed by a tour of the container. Every quarter we bring our partners together to review new products and/or updates to Systems, Software, Storage or Services... thus the name "Partners in Profit". Later in the morning customers and prospects listened to our own Tony Kay speak on Virtualization followed by the tour.

We had two classes tour the Blackbox with their Professors, and the Business School Dean. Interesting that one class was E-Commerce (marketing) and the other class was MIS students.

Every business school student had the pass by the Blackbox to enter the building and could not miss seeing the Blackbox going between classes.

Two additional happenings today: first we had the parents of Dave Douglas (VP of Eco-Responsibility) enjoy touring the Blackbox. Mrs. Douglas commented that she enjoyed seeing what her son had been up to (wondering what Dave didn't share about his youth with his parents). The other happening included my being interviewed by the Milwaukee CBS TV station and the local newspaper.