I spent the last work week in upstate New York again. It was actually one of the least busy trips I've had in a while since I only worked 8-10 hours a day. At this point I find flying pretty boring as I do it way too much. Usually I spend the whole flight just playing my DS. During the flight back I had on Friday I was doing my usual until I ( Read more... )

I'm off on a business trip to Chantilly VA. Normally that can be quite boring, but this time zippiner is here with me. We flew in Monday even though I didn't have anything to do for work till Tuesday. We spent Monday afternoon in the middle of DC walking around. We saw a few monuments and a lot of cherry trees. Apparently it's the right time of year ( Read more... )

I know I was just in upstate New York a few weeks ago, but I'm heading out there again today. I'm currently flying on my way to Atlanta. Since it was hard to get a flight this weekend I ended up flying on Delta instead of United which I usually fly. On feature I certainly don't see on United flights is wireless access during the flight. It's a ( Read more... )

Our garbage disposal wasn't working when we bought the house so I decided to take the time to examine it today. After hitting the reset button and turning it on it turned itself off again pretty quick and I smelled burning circuitry. I figured that it was a lost cause so I went out, bought a new one and installed it. While I was at it I fixed ( Read more... )

This trip has been pretty relaxed as far as my business trips go. I was brought out here so the team could get together for some planning meetings and those have been going pretty well. Theres no big rush so I've been able to show up at work a little before 9 and leave around 5 ( Read more... )

The trip to Melbourne wasn't so bad. On the work side of things I had a few conversations about how my teams part of this integrations effort is going to work and did a few on site bug fixes. I only ended up having a 9 hour day, which is on the short end for a business trip. On Thursday evening I went to an ocean front restaurant called Captain ( Read more... )

Well today I got it confirmed that I'm off tomorrow for a business trip to Melbourne. Luckily it'll be a short trip, I'll be back late Friday night. Anyone know anything I should try to do while I'm there?

Well, I didn't have as much free time on this trip as I was hoping and most of that was spent going out to eat with co-workers. I did get a chance to go to the local gaming store here and wow! it's huge. The number of board games on display in the store was probably more than there are in my house. I'm never gonna be bored while I'm here ever, ( Read more... )

Tomorrow night we start hosting movie nights here every Friday. We don't have a movie picked out yet, but we will be serving split pea soup ( Read more... )

Last week the business trip I had went well and was quite profitable. I scored a free flight on united for taking a later flight on one of the legs. Also this year the company went to a per diem system for meals, so the extra money that I didn't spend on food goes straight to me tax free ( Read more... )