Up helping with the Yogen Fruz deployment with Sean up in Tronto, Canada.

Here are some notes and recap:

Sunday - 10/27/24 - Drove to Colorado. Needed to get a passport and Utah didn't have a passport agency place.

Monday - 10/28/24 - Spent the day in Denver getting my passport. Had to go back to the passport agency a couple of times. One for the initial appointment and another time to pick it up and verify information. While waiting, did some research on my cart favorite buttons, smart groups, tiered pricing and rules and assignments for the smart group buttons. Met up with my brother for dinner.

Tuesday - 10/29/24 - Went to the Denver temple in the morning. Spent some time playing around with Affinity Designer and learning how to control color and saturation levels. Graphic stuff. Drove to Salida, CO. Met up with Steve at his house. We chatted about some upcoming projects and challenges. I really liked his house. He had redone some rooms, cabinets, counters, rest rooms, and such. Super cool! Craig came over and gave me a bunch of adilas checks. We talked about goals and ideas for the Canada trip and venture. After that, I met up with Mrs. Shari O. up in Buena Vista, Colorado and we had dinner together. Great time and fun chatting. I then got to go see Shari O.'s house and dogs. Super cute. Visited my friend Andy Maupin and then drove up to Denver.

Wednesday - 10/30/24 - Slept in my car in the airport parking garage - fun! Flew up to Canada and Sean picked me up in Tronto. We went to the hotel, got settled in and got some dinner. After dinner, we went and found a store to get some snacks and other food for the week.

Thursday - 10/31/24 - Trick or treat... We got tricked... :) We went to headquarters and met with some of their team. We got there at 9:30 am in the morning. We didn't leave until after 12:30 am, that night. Super long and stressful day. Tons of hardware issues. They wanted us to fully configure the old FranPOS units (7 year old Android tables with a locked software system installed). We were attempting to run adilas (web-based system on that unit). The browser part worked great (normal adilas stuff). The ability to interface with the peripherals and hardware were crazy tough. We couldn't get anything to work. Totally beating our heads against the wall. Trying all kinds of stuff. We did have some help from one of their team members (Harsha) and that was about it. At one point, it looked like that was the end... The main boss on their team was saying, it doesn't look like we will be able to deploy this software. Sean and I asked for leave to go to the computer store and purchase some things that we knew would work (new hardware). We were also somewhat waiting on another one of their team members who hadn't come in yet. He was a tech savvy guy who had been able to hack the locked code on the FranPOS on the last visit from Suzi from the adilas team. Without going into crazy details. We got some new hardware and started setting it up. We were also blessed and the other IT guy (George) from their company came and was able to get some things going through on the older hardware. Pretty stressful day.

Friday - 11/1/24 - Went to the mall (Square One mall in Tronto) to help get the system up live for the client. We were needing some help from the IT guy. He was a little bit late, we had it mostly running before he came. He put the icing on the cake and made it work. In the meantime, I ended up recoding some of the my cart favorite buttons, making them bigger, and styling the mini invoice (customer receipt) format. Sean was doing some training and by mid way through the day, it was going super smooth. If it wasn't for the hardware issues, we could have been in and out in just a few hours. Anyways, good day and they seemed to like the system. Answering random questions here and there. By the end of the day, they had done over 150 invoices (sales tickets) through the system.

Saturday - 11/2/24 - Went back to the store (Square One) to help out and see if they had any questions. Had lunch with the owner (Eric), great guy. I spent most of the day fixing small little things to help with flow and settings. Fixed a few information messages and added a new setting to control the auto print option for the mini invoice. Good day.

Sunday - 11/3/24 - Woke up early to update all of the time zones on the servers (daylight savings stuff). Sean and I went to church and then did some site seeing (Niagra Falls and such).

Monday - 11/4/24 - Back to headquarters. Worked on uploading customers. Sean was helping and doing some training. We spent some time and put together a small email with a list of to do items. We then had a meeting with some of their team to go over the email and to do list. That was really good. I met with a couple of people and setup some new accounts for some of the accounting people. Towards the end of the day, I got a chance to chat with the main operations boss (Phillip). I enjoyed that. Trying to show him what we do and how we do things. He has a lot of things going on.

Tuesday - 11/5/24 - Sean dropped me off at headquarters and I worked there all day. He took the rental car back and flew home. I spent most of the morning working on loyalty points and getting data entered into the system. Various questions, different sessions, etc. Towards the end of the day, I did some group training for four of the main people (Phillip, Rex, George, and Harsha). I thought it went good, hopefully they enjoyed it. There is a lot to cover. At the end of the day, I found a good spot to stop and did some light planning. One of the guys gave me a ride home (Rex). He was pretty cool! Just being silly but I got back to the hotel and said, "I'm alive!". I was super happy. We still have some things flapping in the wind but nothing that we can't tie up and/or fix. All in all, I was pretty happy.

Wednesday - 11/6/24 - Took a cab to the airport and got all checked in. I spent some time going over emails and what not. I hadn't checked them too much for the past week or so. Somewhat behind. Flew home and drove from Denver to Grand Junction, Colorado.

Thursday - 11/7/24 - Drove home from Grand Junction, Colorado to Logan, Utah. Stopped along the way and had a 2 hour phone call meeting with the adilas team (Steve, Alan, Cory, Sean, and I). Had a little car trouble but got home safe. What a trip!