once again, plans change
I was supposed to stay in Boston Tuesday night, and have today as my travel day from Boston to Hartford. Had dinner plans with Dina and Ian for last night, as well.
So of course, there's this threat of a major storm causing travel problems today, so I changed travel plans and headed out of Boston after dinner Tuesday night to get to the hotel here in Hartford before the snow hit.
I had a great, if short, dinner with Dina and Ian and got to hear a bit more about the wedding plans for May.
The drive to Hartford was smooth, being after rush hour and with no snow. I'm actually in Windsor up by the airport at a nice Marriott. Listened to a few more Stephen King short stories on the drive, as noted over in 365shortstories late last night. Almost done with the collection.
Got settled into the hotel but was too late to turn on LOST (and was not about to turn it on mid-episode). Ended up playing Scrabble on FB, putting a book post here, and talking to 5 or 6 friends via AIM until 3am.
Slept from 3 to 6am, when a text from my boss told me that our office was opening late or possibly not opening at all, and if those of us on the road needed anything we should call the boss at home. There didn't appear to be much snow coming down at that point. At 10, when I looked out again, it was snowing but didn't seem to be accumulating. When I got out of bed again at 3pm (yes, I did go back to sleep at 10, even though part of my brain was saying "go downstairs and get lunch and actually accomplish something today"), it was snowing strongly but still didn't seem to have accumulated much. Checked the computer, and home definitely got more than here has gotten, by close to a foot.
It took some effort, but I finally got the computer and the hotel wireless to let me watch LOST -- after trying abc.com and having lock-up issues like I've had there in the past, I found the episode on Hulu and watched it there. So at least I'm caught up on LOST, although not Heroes or Damages (both of which I meant to watch Monday night, but ... well, that's another "say fuck it all ignore the world and sleep" story).
I don't feel like I'm in the mood to analyze three episodes of LOST tonight, or honestly even one episode -- I'm feeling a bit of a headache coming on, so I think I'm just going to tool around the computer for a while and let myself be distracted by everyone else's problems and the advice they all seem to think I'm capable of giving.
So of course, there's this threat of a major storm causing travel problems today, so I changed travel plans and headed out of Boston after dinner Tuesday night to get to the hotel here in Hartford before the snow hit.
I had a great, if short, dinner with Dina and Ian and got to hear a bit more about the wedding plans for May.
The drive to Hartford was smooth, being after rush hour and with no snow. I'm actually in Windsor up by the airport at a nice Marriott. Listened to a few more Stephen King short stories on the drive, as noted over in 365shortstories late last night. Almost done with the collection.
Got settled into the hotel but was too late to turn on LOST (and was not about to turn it on mid-episode). Ended up playing Scrabble on FB, putting a book post here, and talking to 5 or 6 friends via AIM until 3am.
Slept from 3 to 6am, when a text from my boss told me that our office was opening late or possibly not opening at all, and if those of us on the road needed anything we should call the boss at home. There didn't appear to be much snow coming down at that point. At 10, when I looked out again, it was snowing but didn't seem to be accumulating. When I got out of bed again at 3pm (yes, I did go back to sleep at 10, even though part of my brain was saying "go downstairs and get lunch and actually accomplish something today"), it was snowing strongly but still didn't seem to have accumulated much. Checked the computer, and home definitely got more than here has gotten, by close to a foot.
It took some effort, but I finally got the computer and the hotel wireless to let me watch LOST -- after trying abc.com and having lock-up issues like I've had there in the past, I found the episode on Hulu and watched it there. So at least I'm caught up on LOST, although not Heroes or Damages (both of which I meant to watch Monday night, but ... well, that's another "say fuck it all ignore the world and sleep" story).
I don't feel like I'm in the mood to analyze three episodes of LOST tonight, or honestly even one episode -- I'm feeling a bit of a headache coming on, so I think I'm just going to tool around the computer for a while and let myself be distracted by everyone else's problems and the advice they all seem to think I'm capable of giving.