As I sit and listen to the air traffic controllers do their thing on my flight from Boston to denver, I figure it’s as good a time as any to blog about at least part of my trip to beantown. By the way if you fly united ever, this air traffic control channel is great. The Boston air traffic controllers especially are great. Currently, the sky seems more crowded than boston streets during the big dig. Apparently, there is some sort of ash cloud over new england from some sort of volcanic activity – why this wasn’t in the news I have no idea. Now some pilot is emailing something to an air traffic controller. But I digress.
The trip out was a fast one, basically to run the Falmouth road race and visit at least part of Al’s family and like always, it was far too short in some ways and in other ways it was pretty much perfect. Five days is definitely long enough pop in and hang out with most folks, though since I was there mostly on weekdays, hangout time with some folks i.e. hopers and my mexifin half brother was quite limited.
I did get to see Melisa and Dimitri, both of whom are quite delightful.
Also, five days is not long enough to see the more annoying side of family or quasi family members that their more immediate members have to put up with.
Ok this getting long winded and has taken far too many asides, so I’m cutting myself off here and giving my thumbs a rest. Race details will be up with pictures once I’m home.
I was just going through my photos from Jackie and Chris’ wedding and came across this bad boy. If you’ve looked at my photos from the wedding, you’ve already seen it. I love this picture, not because it is the best technically (background is way not clean), but mostly because that is what Jackie’s face looked like the whole dance. Let’s just say that the dance was not scripted and her dad had a few moves up his sleeve she wasn’t ready for.
I start you off with the last post from my previous blog site that was never published due to mobileme issues. It was intended to be published on the June 18.
We’re in Hartford Ct (really Wethersfield) for the wedding of one of Al’s cousins. The flights here were pretty uneventful, but our drive to the house was an interesting one. Al’s grandmother had arranged for a towncar drive us from the airport to her house, and almost the entire drive was deja vu all over again.
I hadn’t been in a towncar since I was flown out to Wake Forest for an interview with their Cancer Biology Faculty (for the PhD program). Long story short, I was not really in a good place mentally after hours of delays at the airport and a three hour time change, the interviews did not go well and I wasn’t accepted into the program. Also figuring into all this was the fact that Al and I were having some issues. She was in San Francisco working for the Parks Service and I had been working at Genentech, but was too busy to visit her outside of weekends. Strangely enough, the drive to Hartford looked very much like that to Wake Forest and drew up all the emotions I experienced almost a year and a half ago. Eerie indeed.
Ok, so I won’t be moving my old blog stuff over here, it’s just too time consuming, but, rest assured that I will at least move the latest updates to this blog from the original. I was up late last night getting this site all set up and I think it will be worth it in the future to have. I’m new to wordpress, so if you have good links to themes, etc, let me know.
Ok, I’ve given up on mobileme for now, and upgraded to my own domain name and to wordpress. We’ll see how this goes, so far installation took me an hour longer than it should have. Hopefully with the new wordpress iphone/ipod touch program I’ll be able to keep this up to date more easily. Look for a redesigned front page, etc once I have some dang time to get things in order. Also, I will still throw up my web galleries on mobileme, but will probably also have them here.
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August 12, 2008 6:39 pm | 
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