Two weeks in Singapore

James is on his way. To be exact, he's probably about halfway through his 15 hour journey across the world to the country of Singapore. Would you like a reminder about where Singapore is? I thought so, here you go:

I personally don't know anything about the country, except that the capitol is Singapore. Yes, that's right, Singapore, Singapore - they got creative didn't they? That's where James will be for the next two weeks. His company, Robert E. Morris, has sent him to Asia again (last time it was China) to one of their customers in the Aerospace industry in order to train 8-10 Singaporians on how to set up and use a Tsugami SS-20 Swiss Screw machine. Hopefully they speak a little English this time (the Chinese relied on hand signals and pictionary sketches) or else it's going to be a looooong two weeks!

The company he's visiting, Barnes Aerospace, makes precision aircraft parts. As part of his job, James writes the CNC program for a particular part they are interested in making and then sets up the machine to run the program. The last step is traveling to the machine's destination and training the machine operators on how to use the equipment and run the program. Very technical, I know. Honestly, I don't know how he does it, I can only understand a tiny fraction of it all! James' brain is mechanical and mine is definitely abstract, haha.

I haven't gotten an update from him yet as he's still in the air. Singapore is exactly on the other side of the world so they are 12 hours ahead of us. James should be arriving around 8 PM tomorrow night, which is really our tomorrow morning so I look forward to hearing about how the flight went and what his first impressions are. I'll be sure to post updates. For now, I'll leave you with about the only kind of photograph that comes up when you Google Singapore: buildings and lights.