Ambal is out of office till the end of February
 

Hi Everyone,

Please be informed that I am going to be out of office since Jan 31st till Feb 25th 2014 due to volunteering at the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi. I am going to work at the Olympic women ice hockey tournament.

While I am out you may notice less replies in this forum so in case of an emergency post a ticket into your HelpDesk account.

Also, please do not forget about tons of information about X-Cart and X-Payments at http://help.x-cart.com/

Especially,
http://help.x-cart.com/index.php?title=X-Payments:FAQ
http://help.x-cart.com/index.php?title=X-Payments:Troubleshooting

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Hope you have a great time at the games Alex

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Have a good one... Don't forget to post pictures!

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Be safe. Be aware of your surroundings. Enjoy. Post picts.

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I am back. Photos will be posted later. Just have to dig through tons of emails first.

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Welcome back Alex. I'm sure you have a lot of mess on your desk now. :-)

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Hi Alex,

I hope you had as much fun in Sochi as we had watching the games!

Heartbreaker for the USA women's hockey team :-(

Did you get to go to opening or closing ceremonies?
Looking forward to your 'trip report" :-)

J

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Welcome back. I enjoyed your up to the minute pics on FB :)

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Welcome back young un, hope you had a good time and are now ready to push xcart onwards and upwards.

Kev

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> Heartbreaker for the USA women's hockey team :sad:

Oh yeah. My heart was broken, too :(((( Team Canada dragged the game from 2:0 to 2:3(o) in the last few minutes. There was no luck for team USA (do you remember last minute shot to Canada's empty net and the puck hitting a goal post?). What a drama indeed!

> Did you get to go to opening or closing ceremonies?

Unfortunately, no, but I was outside Fisht when athletes walked into it, during cauldron litting and the final fireworks which I felt by my guts since I was just 300-500 meters away from the place of explosions. My shift was over on Feb 20th so I was home during the closing ceremony. But I could spend a couple of final days on my couch watching the Olympics on TV, hugging my wife and having rest after everything ;)

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Finally I found time to organize my Sochi 2014 photos ;)

https://plus.google.com/u/1/photos/+AlexMulin/albums/5989616065275265265?authkey=CMKRwP74gYDCeQ

PS:
Yeah, a bit late, I know.

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Um, Alex, are we supposed to salivate when you post "food porn" ? ;-)

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Alex, thanks for sharing, that was fun to look at.

Next time I need captions (I know you don't have time to do that !)

But I don't get some of the pictures...

-What was with the car with the hood emblem covered and renamed?
-What was that long wall with what looked like champagne bottles in it?
-And by the way, life-size bunnies arm-in-arm scare me!

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Ha-ha :lol:
You wouldn't salivate if you try that food porn. It was not that good.

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I'll add captions and comments a bit later.

> -What was with the car with the hood emblem covered and renamed?

Honda. Branding control is very strict inside Olympic venues. E.g. I had to remove stickers from bottles of water when I was working near the field of play. Cars used inside the Olympic venues must be made by VW group of companies or hide their branding. So driver of that Honda put a sticker and wrote "Audi" ;)))))

> -What was that long wall with what looked like champagne bottles in it?

Exhibit of "Wines of Krasnodar region" in the Olympic park. I walked near it every day but didn't have a chance to taste it :(

> -And by the way, life-size bunnies arm-in-arm scare me!

They are not that scaring in reality!