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I keep notes about the places I go when I’m on travel, about experiences with vendors good and bad. While a particularly bad place might stand out in my mind, I may forget when a place is just sub-par. If you don’t travel, the following probably won’t be of much interest.
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A Weekend Away

Sometimes you need a weekend away from the world. Away from work. Away from side work. Away from your normal locale. This weekend we headed up to Ocean City to relax. After a good bit of rain and some light hydroplaning on the Garden State Parkway, we arrived unscathed. There’s something about chips, salsa and [...]

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Where Did the Weekend Go?

I didn’t get to dig.
Instead I drove to New Jersey with a friend to pickup a car that he had purchased. Not at all related to digging a hole, but it’s the same friend so either way I was helping him out. I’m not huge into cars, but apparently the Toyota Supra Targa — with [...]

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I hate crossing the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, especially when there’s no other way to go. I was heading to Alexandria last night and got to sit in the mixing bowl for 20-30 minutes before crossing into Virginia. Took 20 minutes to go 25 miles on the Parkway and another hour in stop-and-go traffic for 3 [...]

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I went to Chicago to visit friends for my self-proclaimed spring break. Their apartment is cozy and centrally located for both nightlife and work, close to mass transit, etc. Their building isn’t the newest, but it’s got an air of class. They’ve got doormen to open the door for you and announce visitors, hardwood in [...]

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These days, the front desk programs a few magnetic stripe cards when you check in. Can you remember when the front desk would hand you a set of keys? What if we used our credit cards instead?

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Las Vegas Airline Boozers

From the airport to the airplane, everyone’s boozing up on the way to Las Vegas.

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Sneaky airline audio.

At some point the headset jacks on some airlines went from the proprietary two-prong version to a standard eighth-inch “mini” jack, which made way for this idiot.

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