So I’ve spent the majority of today travelling from Victoria BC to Washington DC for the Human Proteome Organization conference.

After 2 days of exhibiting I’m off to Cambridge, Boston to visit a customer. Anyone have suggestions on what I should do in Cambridge/Boston?

The travelling was actually not as bad as I expected. Seatac was rather efficient and I didn’t even have time to make it worthwhile getting wireless net a
ccess. I did sign up for T Mobile wireless access in the Hyatt I’m staying at and it seems to be working alright.

Regan International on the other hand looks like one big mess (IMHO). It’ll be an interesting experience when I go to leave for Boston on Tuesday.

Anyways, I’m sitting in a Hyatt near regan interational. It’s saturday night and there is absolutely nothing to do in “Crystal City”. Talked to the fron
t desk, no go. I imagine (and I’m hoping) that Cambridge, being a college town and all, will be a little bit more exciting.

I pre-loaded my zen micro with all kinds of podcasts to listen to on the flight over. Turns out we had a 100mph tailwind and we got here almost an hour ea
rlier so I couldn’t fit everything in. I flew Alaska and rented one of their $10 personal dvd players. I’d recommend it to anyone, ended up watching Wal
l Street and half of the incredibles. I’ll rent it again on the way home and watch the rest of the incredibles and maybe something else.

Trade show doesn’t start until Monday but we have to setup our display booth tomorrow and attend the opening schmooze. I don’t know how I got manipulated
into doing this trade show appearance but I had to go to Boston anyways so it was convienent I guess.


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