Today was the third and final full day of the conference. Tomorrow's just a half day and many people end up skipping it, anyway. There are still a few sessions of interest to me so I'll show up for them but I really want to come back to my hotel and at least walk around a bit more and get some pictures before leaving. We'll see how I'm feeling ( Read more... )

Today was the second day of the conference. I got about as much sleep as the night before so I was still dragging pretty badly. But at least because I blew off the first session I was able to catch the water taxi to the convention center. That was really fun, fast and a little cheaper. It turns out the water taxi goes to the airport too so I ( Read more... )

Today was the first day of the conference. It was a rough start to the morning after only getting a couple of hours of sleep. I was really disappointed when I tried to take a water taxi to the convention center but learned they don't open until 7am and I needed to get to the convention center early still to register. The land taxi was much less ( Read more... )

I'm spending most of this week in Boston for a vendor conference. Today was all about traveling. I arrived at work just before 7am to meet my shuttle there and got to my hotel room at 8:30pm. Ah, the fun of traveling east ( Read more... )

It's been a busy couple of weekends, but busy in a good way.

Two weeks ago I went back to Fresno to attend Big Hat Days, the opening of Rodeo Month in Clovis. That was a lot of fun. I took Friday off, drove up, my mom and I went on Saturday, lazed about on Sunday and then I had lunch with loupquiguerit on Monday and drove back home. The drive back was ( Read more... )

Apparently Enterprise has a different idea of the word "reservation" than do I. When I call and make a reservation for a car and they tell me that they'll come with it and get me, I presume that means that they'll actually be here at my house at the time of my reservation. This is especially true when I call them immediately after making the ( Read more... )

6.9 in Baja CaliforniaIt certainly lasted quite a while, though, and built pretty steadily. I did feel compelled to get away from windows and my monitor was swaying quite a bit at the peak. I've also noticed at least one small and very brief aftershock. I suspect things will be pretty rough closer to the epicenter ( Read more... )

Me: You're shipping this order to the wrong address.
BB: Oh, no problem. When the delivery is rejected we'll blah, blah and blah and get it rerouted to you.

[later]

UPS: Status: Delivered
Me: Uh...

Good thing I still own that house and have a very helpful property management company.

Move along. Most of you aren't going to care about this.

( /gquit )

Since my Honda dealership couldn't finish everything they needed to do to my car last Saturday, I was back in San Diego yesterday. They ended up finding a few more things while they were wrapping it up but it still wound up costing less than I thought it would ( Read more... )