Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Back to Boston
Boston isn't a cold siberia all year round. I had asked my friends how the weather was, and still semi-doubted them. It's as nice as it is in California.
Things are going fairly smoothly for my first business trip. The plane flight was pretty uneventful, and I slept most of the way from DC to Boston. At first Alamo gave me this janky car with a weird smell (I felt like Seinfeld in The Smelly Car episode). They were nice enough to swap it for a pontiac grand prix with 2000 miles on it. Acceleration and handling sux but at least it has a new car smell. The hotel room is decent, but the Hawthorne blows it away. The good thing is that it's only 5 minutes from the training facility and closer to my favorite restaurants on the 9. Wired internet blows but better than dialup.
Driving down the 495 brought back memories... yeah I know it hasn't been that long. But it's still cool! I'm semi-familiar with south MA now, didn't get lost. I actually drove by the Hawthorne to get a reuben sandwich from Cracker Barrel. The sandwich was incredibly good, however the service there was horrible. Delayed me at least 20 minutes and I missed the first quarter of game 6 as a result. I think I'll head down to the outlets Saturday morning and have a look around.
Training is a lot different this time around, there's way less pressure than bootcamp. Which makes it more fun. The class I'm taking is interesting (Legato clustering software) and the instructor is hilarious. He even offered me his season tickets to the Giants when he's not going (pity they sux this year). The cool thing is I work in the Legato building and the two instructors there are in Santa Clara (our future digs). So I can ping them anytime in the future.
Hopefully tomorrow my friends will be free and we can all go out to dinner and drinks. I spent way too much on sushi today trying to max out my $50 dinner expense. It didn't help that the sake and maguro weren't as soft as I'd remembered. I gotta get some chowDAH.
PS. I bought some gummy worms, left them in the car, and after class found out they had MELTED together. Wow this ain't January anymore, where you could leave leftovers in your car and have it stay good for ... well.. forever. ¶ 9:15 PM
Things are going fairly smoothly for my first business trip. The plane flight was pretty uneventful, and I slept most of the way from DC to Boston. At first Alamo gave me this janky car with a weird smell (I felt like Seinfeld in The Smelly Car episode). They were nice enough to swap it for a pontiac grand prix with 2000 miles on it. Acceleration and handling sux but at least it has a new car smell. The hotel room is decent, but the Hawthorne blows it away. The good thing is that it's only 5 minutes from the training facility and closer to my favorite restaurants on the 9. Wired internet blows but better than dialup.
Driving down the 495 brought back memories... yeah I know it hasn't been that long. But it's still cool! I'm semi-familiar with south MA now, didn't get lost. I actually drove by the Hawthorne to get a reuben sandwich from Cracker Barrel. The sandwich was incredibly good, however the service there was horrible. Delayed me at least 20 minutes and I missed the first quarter of game 6 as a result. I think I'll head down to the outlets Saturday morning and have a look around.
Training is a lot different this time around, there's way less pressure than bootcamp. Which makes it more fun. The class I'm taking is interesting (Legato clustering software) and the instructor is hilarious. He even offered me his season tickets to the Giants when he's not going (pity they sux this year). The cool thing is I work in the Legato building and the two instructors there are in Santa Clara (our future digs). So I can ping them anytime in the future.
Hopefully tomorrow my friends will be free and we can all go out to dinner and drinks. I spent way too much on sushi today trying to max out my $50 dinner expense. It didn't help that the sake and maguro weren't as soft as I'd remembered. I gotta get some chowDAH.
PS. I bought some gummy worms, left them in the car, and after class found out they had MELTED together. Wow this ain't January anymore, where you could leave leftovers in your car and have it stay good for ... well.. forever. ¶ 9:15 PM
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man,i'm one of those people who thought that boston was cold year round...lol. opps, that goes to show how much i know...
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