Congrats!

1:32, guess I'll miss 200k
Good luck pwpers most the best :rolleyes: win

Which airport?

Night at the Museum, nice!

When I made the trip w/ Mrs. photog72 and I was not driving, I had my laptop w/ a Sprint 3G card, and an inverter that plugged into the lighter socket. At that time, Sprint's 3G coverage blew chunks. It still may blow chunks. I don't know because I won't ever go back to them.

I remember how fast I made it through TN. I-81 to I-40/I-75 to I-59. There were lots of religious billboards in the sticks of TN... that's all I remember.

Gridlock is almost completely irrelevant when you don't have a car. And in Atlanta I dealt with it all the time, and didn't have much option to take MARTA in most cases, other than to/from the airport, so there was no escaping it.

Some cities were built to drive in, others not. This is one that was not, hence a major part of the reason we don't drive in it.

I will say that the walk from the Metro station to our apartment today was HOT. It's only a few blocks and takes less than 10 minutes, but it's scorching out there. I knew this city ranks up there with Houston when it comes to miserable summer weather, more so than Atlanta. But I'm not complaining too much. I took a quick shower after I got home, since we're having a friend over for dinner tonight and I didn't want to be too grungy when he gets here. And I'll still take my 20-30 minute commute from DCA home via Metro and a short walk in the heat versus the 60-90 minute ordeal from the plane to the front door that I did every week from ATL for two years.

Wow. That totally sucks. :(

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I still don't understand why they had to organize the *A DO to require you to leave on Monday and take an entire week off from work or whatever else one does if one wants to experience all the events. I understand that there are plenty of independently wealth, self-employed, or remotely-working FT'ers who have the ability to attend a DO like this for an entire week without an impact on their work activities, but I would imagine that the vast majority of people who will attend the entire DO do not fit into those categories.

I would like to go, but there are only a couple of times a year when I can take a consecutive week or more off and I am not going to use one of those times to go to the DO. If they were to schedule things in a manner that would allow one to leave on Thursday or even Wednesday, I could probably attend most of it. I don't know why they didn't schedule it in that manner; I guess more people are willing to take nearly a week's worth of time off from 'normal life' than I otherwise would have guessed. (Yes, I realize that one can do the US charter in that time, but I would like to attend the whole thing). Not saying that's bad, just saying I wish it were more convenient.

Come up for the DO next weekend and we'll commiserate our sorrows in delicious beer and grilled meat.

Get used to the hot walks to and from the metro; it will be like this, or worse, until mid-September. I am usually drenched in sweat after the two-minute walk to the Metro from my apartment, followed by the two-minute walk to the office from the Metro.

I think I have a bad case of the vapors after what I just paid CO to go to SFO next month:mad: I couldn't even select a seat since the 5 remaining outbound were all in exit rows. Wish you could be door certified in advance:rolleyes:

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Congrats^ I'll be fighting you for the next one though;)

I spent 2 hours in the DMV with my son explaining why his mother didn't notice his blue eyes turned hazel when he was 9 because she filled out the form. Then there was this growth spurt after 16. So the bearded wonder had his pix re-taken so he could turn 21 soon and look non-dorky:D

Punching out a few minutes early. Have a good un', Box.