I'm home and finally settled in. It's been a busy last few weeks with two trips up to Boston. One was scheduled during the Memorial Day weekend for a work project and the other was a last minute emergency work related trip that lasted pretty much the whole week. The traveling thing gets old very quickly and I'm happy to be sleeping in my own bed.

Last week I took a last minute flight up to Boston on Tuesday due to a server problem with a client. The whole flying thing is a headache, and it was pretty expensive on two hours notice, but door to door (from my place to where I needed to be in Boston) was 3 hours. Not bad considering if i took the train it would have been a little over 5 hours. If the Acela trains were still in service, I would have taken that tho, because it's around 4 hours door to door and it would have allowed me to actually do work. The flight to Boston is just 39 minutes and it's way too quick to try and get anything done.

The funniest moment of my trip to Boston was when I got in to town on Tuesday. I asked the cab driver to take me to the office I had to work at and he couldn't because of odd street closures. Instead, he dropped me off at my sister's place, which was where I was staying because of the short notice and ridiculous high hotel rates. I dropped my bags off at her place and walked over to the office. On the way to the office, I figured out why the streets were closed. Some sort of race was going on. The race presented me with a new problem tho: there was no way to cross the street. There was hundreds and hundreds of people running and it showed no signs of letting up. I stood on the sidewalk for a few minutes (which people were running down too) and tried to figure out what to do. I did the only thing I could and made a run for it. I ran right into the middle of the thing and darted across the street. I think I freaked a few of the runners out, but I had no choice and no one got hurt. It was very amusing.

Got a lot on my plate these days, but all is pretty good. Going to be posting a new, really cool, version of firstrowidiots.com soon. I'm excited to get it up. It's finally going to be database-driven.

Time for a soccer game. Until later...