Carp-e-Diem !

Last night, I had a great dinner with the director of operations at Salem Web Network. He mentioned that on a recent trip to Dallas, his flight had in-flight wireless internet access. He said it made his flight very productive.

When I boarded my plane this afternoon, I noticed that there were signs advertising in-flight internet on my flight. I decided to check it out. GoGo InFlight is AMAZING!  The first trial is free, so I signed up to browse the web.

Our flight took off about 50 minutes late due to a large thunderstorm.  The pilot announced also that over Alberquerque (sp?) we were diverting around another large weather system.  So I will miss my connector flight out of Phoenix.  Toby was planning going up to Santa Barbara in the afternoon and running a bunch of errands until my flight landed. So I was crazy to get a message to her that I wouldn’t be on that flight.  With the in-flight wireless internet, we were able to send emails and even Instant Message about the change in plans.

Additionally, I have a program on my laptop called Connectify that turns your computer into a wireless hotspot.  This means, that if I wanted to, I could re-broadcast the GoGo Inflight WiFi, allowing any other computer to share the GoGo InFlight WiFi.  I love it!

This past week I was putting on a training session for 15 co-workers at Salem Web Network‘s offices in Richmond, Virginia.

Tuesday night we had dinner at Old Original Bookbinder’s and Wednesday we ate burgers at Five Guys.  Five Guys is supposed to be the east coast equivalent of In-N-Out.  Their burgers are great, but to compare, their burgers have bigger patties and are more expensive.  Five Guys also does not have shakes on their menu, but offers bacon.  I did not ask if Five Guys had a secret menu.

After burgers on Wednesday, I went geocaching with a co-worker.  We found a couple of caches in an area near our hotel, and then we decided to do one more.  This one took us many blocks past the hotel, so by the time we found it and got back, Ihad worked up an appetite.  We had some bread pudding for dessert at Sin-e’s Irish Pub while listening to some mediocre karaoke.  I liked that the first appetizer listed on their menu was a pint of Guinness.  I didn’t like that our waitress was a bit cranky.

Here is a map of our travels, with point A being the Omni Hotel, our starting and ending point :

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While geocaching, I saw my first Photuris lucicrescens

Firefly

He would have been 74 today, if he wasn’t singing with the angels.  Love and miss you, Daddy….

Since the Carp paper won’t always be available online, below is the article that appeared in the May 13, 2010 edition of the Coastal View News .  Click on the picture for full size

Love our small town! If you send in some cool news and a semi-decent picture of your kids, you can get them in the local paper pretty easily. Here’s the link about Max and Lucy – "Siblings Whip Up Award Winning Fair Entries" on page 14 of the link below:
- http://www.viewda.com/webpaper/coastalview/webpapers/current/multi/index.html