So….imagine you’re plopped down in the middle of a city. Gradually you come to recognize some key landmarks, some phrases, some indications of where you are.
All of the sudden, it hits you: you’re in Hollywood! Look, over there! There’s a Major Motion Picture Studio! Stars work there! Look over there, that’s that famous restaurant where a very famous person [ate/got married/punched out a photgrapher/fornicated/passed out/died] (delete non-applicable). Look, over there! Isn’t that [insert famous person]?
Ok, take that same feeling, now make it about a thousand times geekier and replace all your stars with Software companies. That’s how I feel right now.
I’m like 10 minutes away from 1 Infinite Loop (Apple HQ). I’m the same distance from Google’s HQ. I’ve seen big buildings plastered with logos of software I’ve used and possibly cursed at. They advertise software on the billboards, people. On the billboards! I have yet to see a single advertisement for Bob’s Roofing, or Larry’s House of Holstein, or Sven’s Scandinavian Furniture…now with more Logs! Even in Atlanta I never felt myself to be so surrounded by my own people, the Geeks.
It’s really quiet surreal.
As I mentioned previously we did something new and different on our trip back from Georgia….
We traveled on an evening flight. In fact, our flight left at around 10:00 PM ET.
In previous trips, we’d travel on morning flights. In fact, the earlier the better really. Our last flight was so early we practically had to leave for the airport the day before. And it’s worked well for us. Depending on which airport we leave from and when and who is available, we have relatives in both Chicago and Milwaukee on whose couches we can crash. For the vast majority of the flights, our daughter has been reasonably mellow really. Granted each flight seems to have one or two moments that are a little tense, but we calm her pretty quickly. The last few times she’d even taken to sleeping in her carseat. And that’s just awesome.
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I’m sure I’m not the first person to write a post like this…but it’s new to me.
I’m writing this post while five miles up in the air on an airplane.
Amazing, isn’t it?
Probably not as amazing as how the availability of in flight wifi service causes me to cough up money for over-priced internet service. But I read the little flier for the service, thought about how I was going to be on a 4 and a half hour flight, and decided…why not?
So here I am, writing away from an airplane.
It’s been a crazy few days in any case. I’m exhausted and my head hurts.
As you know, last week the family traveled out to the Boston area for a wedding and returned EARLY Sunday morning. Friday we set out again, this time traveling to Georgia for another wedding. As soon as the party was more or less over yesterday evening, we packed up and headed back to the airport to fly back to Milwaukee. Why such a short turn around time?
I had to catch a plane leaving out of Chicago to head to California for a training class.
I think I wrote about this all a few posts back, but we are putting in INSANE hours and miles of travel these days.
Fortunately for us, it all comes to an end after this weekend. The OB is putting her foot down and preventing my rather pregnant wife from traveling. So this should be it.
Thank goodness.
