Today was my last day in Illinois, I was ferried over the frozen wastelands to the Peoria International Airport.  I awoke at 5:10 am and arrived at the airport around 6 am.  My flight was supposed to leave at 8:09 am, but was delayed until 8:35 am due to mandatory pilot sleep regulations.  We ended up leaving around an hour late for the flight, but we made up much of the time while in the air landing only 20 minutes late.

Tasha was very happy to see me (and the feeling was mutual), so after grabbing my luggage we went and got some lunch before I headed back into the office.

My workday consisted of getting caught up on email, consulting on a Production bug, working on a second bug, and helping to merge some work from the previous week to a greater environment.  Not bad for a sleep-deprived handful of hours!  I’m writing this blog post up early, so Tasha and I can head out and grab some dinner before going to the start of our next birthing class (this one is the less crunchy hospital set of classes, so they are unlikely to produce as much enjoyment).  It’s going to be a tough run since I got up at what is essentially 4:15 am Colorado time.

That’s all for now!

We wrapped up our workshop today, right before the snowstorm set in. The ride that normally took 20 minutes took almost an hour, and I had a few dial-in meetings to attend before my workday was complete.

Now I am debating whether to brave the storm to visit with my cousins. They have a big truck to come pick me up with, so I think I am going to try it. Not going to lie, it is a terrible blizzard out there, but what is life without some adventure?

More soon!

Yesterday, after Kangeiko I noticed that my car was sitting at 99,999 miles right as I pulled into my buddy Paul’s driveway to drop him off.  A few blocks later, my car hit the 100,000 milestone (on Oak Street, if you must know).  My Saturn has been very reliable to me since I bought it in 2003, and it’s fun to mark this milestone.  I hope it lasts another 100,000 miles… heck, I’d be happy if it lasted another 50,000.

Speaking of being on the road, I’m about to head to the airport.  I’m going to Peoria for two days for a workshop, and I’m supposed to be headed into arctic temperatures and a lot of snow.  I’m supposed to be back to attend a birthing class on Wednesday, I sure hope I’m not going to get stranded in IL.  Keep an eye out here for more news as it happens.

With any luck, we have reached our goal of Kearney, NE and will be on the road to Colorado by the time this scheduled post does it’s job.  The next blog post you see will be back to the regularly scheduled program!

More soon!

This is a scheduled post, because I’m unsure how much Internet connectivity our Motel 6 will have.  With any luck, we will be driving the final leg from Iowa to Illinois today!  Keep an eye here or Facebook to know when we got back safe and sound!

This is going to be a quick post to say that I’m about to head out the door to drive to Illinois (well, technically Iowa tonight).  We’re hoping for clear weather conditions and plan to be slow-going to allow Tasha to take regular breaks so she can walk around and keep the baby happy.

Right now Teddy is sulking around because he thinks that he doesn’t get to go with, but little does he know he’ll be sleeping in the back of the car the whole time!

More soon!

By the time this posts, I will be back in Illinois and on my way to my cousin’s bachelor party.  I will be leaving straight from the airport to head to my parents house, then from there directly to check in at the hotel and on to dinner at Alexander’s Steakhouse.  Then it’s on to the casino, followed by a small afterparty at the hotel.  Or at least that’s the plan as of this moment, things may change once we’re all there.

This is my longest actual vacation of the year, I have 7 work days off.  I haven’t had a break of this length in a very long time so I am looking forward to visiting friends and family and relaxing as much as possible.

More from Illinois soon!

Today I caught the 8:10 am flight from Peoria to Denver.  I thought I had misplaced my National rental agreement and since there was no person at the booth I had to write a note and drop my keys off.  After I made my way through security, I found said rental agreement and elected to go back through the line so I could leave the proper paperwork with the rental car company.  No big deal, the Peoria airport is laughably small so it was easy.

The flight itself was uninteresting.  It seemed like it went on far too long, but I think that’s just because I was bored and tired.

After I got back to Denver, Tasha and I treated ourselves to Denny’s and then a long nap for both of us.  As per our normal Sunday ritual, Tasha cut coupons and I inertly “helped” by stacking them into piles that ultimately needed reorganizing.  It doesn’t make much sense but it works for us. :)  While doing this, we spied a Back To School special on a 26″ Westinghouse HDTV/DVD combo for $299 at Target.  My old TV that I had since I was 12 was going out… the brightness was out of whack and the speakers were nearly shot so we got rid of it during our garage sale a few months ago, and now we have a replacement!

It’s back to work for me tomorrow… it has been two full weeks since I was last in the office here in Colorado.  One week was GenCon, the other was working from Peoria designing and planning a project to come later on this year.  The rest of the actual work going on has been a mystery to me since that time.  I am about the most relaxed I’ve been for awhile, so I say BRING IT ON, WORKPLACE!  I hope this relaxation carries me through the start of this work week, it might be stressful getting back into the swing of things.

More soon!

I am sitting at the Brickyard Cafe in Indianapolis airport, waiting for the Frontier baggage check-in to open. Our hotel checkout was at 11 am and our flight doesn’t leave from here until 4:40 pm. The title of this post is technically correct, since I am travelling from Indy to Denver and then nearly immediately to Peoria. So I will hit both of my home cities today.

The clever people in the audience might wonder why I didn’t just go from Indy to Peoria. The answer is simple: management didn’t decide until far too late that they wanted me to go to Peoria this week and I had already paid for my flight. It was too late to process a refund, and I wasn’t going to go out of my way to reschedule my trip to suit them.

That means I fly more today, but it will provide me time to get caught back up on blogging and afford a nice logical break from all the nerdity of GenCon. The next post I make will be from IL tomorrow!

Tasha and I are travelling across country today in order to get back to Colorado.  I might be able to post from Iowa’s rest areas, but likely you will not see original content from me until Sunday.

Just for the record: I have a karate post and a series of guitar-related posts in the hopper for when I return, I just have to take the time to write ’em up.