Tuesday June 17: to Taipei

Tuesday was a busy day, riding by car from Taichung to Taipei (a 2 hour drive) and then visiting two customers. Both customer visits were good, with the first being an existing customer that we offered info the help solve some minor compound problems, and the second introducing Millathane millable urethanes for his possible future use. At the second company, we only met with the president of the company and he seemed pretty technically competent and interested in our products. I was able to make good use of TSE's TIPS* bulletins to answer many of the questions he had, and, at the same time, help me get closer to being able to close my computer case!

We stopped by the office of our distributor Sou Le and Jerry and I were surprised to see our name on the "Welcome to Sou Le" (poster) at the entrance to their offices. We took a pic that we might submit to our company publication, the Mullet Wrapper.

We were welcomed by the president of Sou Le and given several gifts, one a neat pen/penlight/laser pointer, and the other a small dragon statue that's supposed to bring good luck and prosperity. We had another great dinner with the Sou Le folks, with several Taiwan beers to wash it down.

Wednesday morning (in a couple of hours) we depart Taipei to go to Guangzhou, China for training at Sou Le's Guangzhou office and then visiting several customers on Friday.

It's been busy, but fun so far. I though I was pretty well adjusted to the time zone (12 hour difference) but woke up about 1:30 am and couldn't fall back asleep, so I've been on the computer since about 2 am. Plenty of time to sleep when you're dead, so they say.

tom 3:30 am Wednesday

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