We checked out of our cheap, suburban motel this morning. As we were loading our bags into the cavernous trunk of the Ford Taurus, a huge guy with dreadlocks and wearing a Baltimore Ravens jacket walked towards us excitedly. Now, to thoroughly complete the scene, this is a motel parking lot, isolated from the surrounding […]
Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug Read More »
Today’s travel tidbits: The motel has a do-it-yourself waffle machine. Cheapest gas: $1.99 in Laurel, MD. Prices increased to the south. To Maryland drivers, honking is equivalent to foreplay. The tone is closer to the gentle “pip” == “excuse me” you’d hear in Seattle than the naked aggression of a gristly New York cabbie. I
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Today’s been sucked up by coast-to-coast travel to Baltimore. Random tidbits of the day: This morning I stood behind a lady who used seven bins in the TSA security line: jacket, sweater, shoes, laptop, purse, quart-sized baggie of combustible fluids, and her purse. During an hour-long flight delay in Chicago O’Hare — no doubt caused
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My wireless service provider sent me an offer for a free cell phone if I renewed my service contract again. Why not?: I’m content with the service, and my cell phone was showing its age. In particular, the battery doesn’t hold a charge for more than a day and the display has been cracked since
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In our last episode, there was a sizeable difference between the two roofing quotes. I had two more scheduled, expecting them to be somewhere in the middle of the range, optimistic they’d be on the lower side. Hah! The representative for Company Three did the initial inspection while I was in Houston. He came by
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Water Wall Last week I was in Houston for a business conference. (Apologies to those of you who were subjected to my presentation. I understand I sustained 80 words a minute with hurricane gusts of up to 170. Yehaa! Nervousness. I hope you enjoyed the live demos. Also, my joke about including “the gratuitous store
Second roof estimate: optimistic Read More »
After an hour of happily doing knit-like things (see picture) on the plane ride home this afternoon, the 60-ish Croatian lady next to me gestured. Her husband, who spoke only a few words of English, translated enough for me to figure out she wanted to borrow my other set of needles and yarn. I offered
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Last night, as I was preparing my machine for a presentation (Telling it: “You do not have a Sony battery. You’re not going to be melted down into a picnic bench.”), I rebooted to shake out any incomplete “security update” post-processing. Sure enough, when the machine restarted, there was some uselessly named program, trayapp.exe, running.
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