Well, I’m back from my weekend in Syracuse. I’m tired. The only thing worse than getting to the east coast via an hour drive, a 4 hour flight, followed by another one hour flight and an hour and a half drive is doing the whole thing in reverse 36 hours later – against the jet stream and with an hour and a half storm delay sitting on the runway.<\/p>\n
Some highlights of the trip: Overall it was a whirlwind trip, but good. I’ll be thankful for a relaxing weekend at home next weekend though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, I’m back from my weekend in Syracuse. I’m tired. The only thing worse than getting to the east coast via an hour drive, a 4 hour flight, followed by another one hour flight and an hour and a half drive is doing the whole thing in reverse 36 hours later – against the jet …<\/p>\n
\n– I spent most of the trip there blogging, so I’ve finally finished some posts that have been languising in notes stage for a while now. I think this is the first time I’ve spent more time writing than reading on a trip, thanks to the keyboard on my Treo.
\n– Dunkin Donuts!! I still haven’t to the only Dunkin Donuts in California<\/A>, but I got my fill this weekend. It was about the only thing open when we arrived in Syracuse, so we had a dinner of sausage, egg and cheese croissants with some munchkins. It was gooood.
\n– Killed the February issue of Wired. My, I’m behind on my magazines.
\n– I got a lot more Geocaching done than I thought I would. I found at least ten and with the others I did earlier in the week, I’ll have easily kept to my goal of 14 per week (average of 2 per day).
\n– My brother in law graduated and is headed off to work at IBM. Hooray! It seems like he just started.
\n– I had a chance to go back to Syracuse University campus. I didn’t remember much from my trips in 1995 when I was dating a girl from high school who was going there. Gradudation and a dinner the night before was inside the dome, so it was neat to go in there.
\n– Lowlight: Quality Inn, North Syracuse. It’s sleepable assuming you can deal with an overactive heating system, non-smoking rooms that smell like smoke, and the noise from the two highways right next door.<\/p>\n