A catch-all, catch-up post
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Welcome to the new server! If you’re reading this, you’re now pointing to the new server. Everyone else should catch up with the next few days.
I just saw the Youtube video of Miss Teen South Carolina, Lauren Upton, flubbing her answer to a question about maps. She ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed, huh.
(You might find the Tube Maps that Morningtoast.com created helpful for deciphering Ms. Upton.)
MT.Net may go dark briefly in the next day or so as it moves to its new home on a box at VPSFarm, a Xen hosting provider. This could normally be done with no service interruption to you, my dear readers, but a DNS change is being made simultaneously. Those tend to take a while to propagate so its possible you may not jump to the new site as quickly as you’d like.
Should you happen to lose your MT.Net goodness, please – do not panic! The new DNS changes should eventually propagate to you.
You’ll know you’re looking at the wrong site if you don’t see a post about Miss Teen South Carolina next up.
More Than This
Roxy Music
I could feel at the time
There was no way of knowing
Fallen leaves in the night
Who can say where they´re blowing
As free as the wind
And hopefully learning
Why the sea on the tide
Has no way of turning
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The family got back earlier than expected today. Travis spent most of his day at Wakemed.
I still have to work today, which makes today a bit of a challenge. At least we’re all under one roof again!
I finally got a chance to tour Independence Hall today. I arrived this rainy day after the regular tours were over, leaving me with just the “open house” tour that began at five. I bided my time by viewing the Liberty Bell, then progressing to Congress Hall, where the U.S. Congress met while Washington, DC was being built.
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Just found out that Travis has croup, which sucks (literally – ha!) but is preferable to pneumonia. I can ease my troubled mind a bit, though I wish I was with them to help out.
I had a good day at work. I got done early and got a chance to tour neighboring Independence Hall. It even stopped raining here in Philadelphia. Then Kelly let me that Travis’s fever hasn’t broken all day and he is being taken by ambulance to the UVa emergency room.
I can think of nothing else right now. Dammit, I wish I wasn’t hundreds of miles away.
I’m staying in downtown Philadelphia at the Close Quarters … er, Club Quarters on Chestnut Street (slogan: Your Belongings Stay Within Convenient Arm’s Reach!). It was another Hotwire deal and one whose “star rating” I might question. The rooms are small, perhaps 10′ by 18′, though it does have a great location, is nicely furnished, has impressive free Internet, and is about $100 cheaper (!) per night than neighboring hotels. Since I’m the only one traveling its no big deal, but if there were two people in this room they’d better be on friendly terms.
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Got into Philly about two hours ago. My flight here was delayed 2.5 hours due to weather here. Missed the first train from the airport by seconds, so that added an extra 30 minutes to my night.
I checked the flight status before leaving but only found out about the delay upon arriving at the airport. I chose to return home and spend the extra time with the family. I got to help tuck the kids into bed before returning. I’m still savoring the feeling that gave me.
I was very hungry once I got here so I stopped by Little Pete’s, a neighborhood diner, for a late-night dinner. My cheese steak was incredibly good (fresh bread!), though most anything would be to me at this hour.
I meet my colleague around 8 tomorrow and we go meet the customer. Should be a fun and relatively easy visit.
Light blogging tonight – its a good night to read. I’ve had Bill Bryson’s A Short History Of Nearly Everything checked out for weeks and have had a hard time putting it down. It’s filling in a lot of the blanks that remained in my science education. Bryson’s writing is so entertaining he can make being blown up by a supervolcano sound like fun.
I don’t have a full weekend this weekend as I’m off to Philadelphia for three days beginning tomorrow evening. I’ve flown through Philly many times but never gotten a chance to look around the city itself. Since reading Walter Isaacson’s Benjamin Franklin: An American Life I’ve wanted to walk the same streets that Franklin walked. They’re also the same streets that Rocky Balboa walked, or jogged at least. At any rate tomorrow I’ll get my chance.
