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Well, I was debating even writing a blog tonight as not much happened. Fixed a couple of Home Depots and sat around in the hotel.

I did however go out to eat at carrabbas and had an awesome Veal Piccata.

I emailed an old co-worker of mine from the War College. Hopefully, i'll get down to newport sometime while i'm here and we can go out to lunch.

I spent some time tonight browsing Myspace and looking for people i went to school with. through one person, i found another who had an I hate Oprah blog. it was cool, he was talking about how his wife wanted to go to boston for some workshop this weekend. I just thought it was so interesting and that its such a small world with be being up here and Camille coming up here this weekend. I know that if her flight came in a day earlier, she'd probably try and go.

Anyway, at least I did manage to find a couple more people from my class who didn't put in their graduation year for some reason or another.

Day 1

Well they hired a new TM for south Boston/Providence and I think he was the old lead tech for the territory. It seems like he's really over his head so far, I could be wrong having never actually met the guy.

I have to do preventative maintenance on the SCOT (self checkout) lanes for a bunch of stores, and right now he's got me scheduled doing maybe one per day, and sometimes two. I would have thought that if he was the previous lead tech he should know just about how long one of these takes. It takes me about 30-45 minutes max on each machine, and there are usually 4 in a store with the exception being Walmart Supercenters. even then, they only have 8. so that's still about 4 hours max.

that's all the work he has scheduled for me for an 8 hour day.

He didn't know what territory code i'd be closing my calls under, it's what allows me to see the calls in my blackberry. I didn't find that out until about 2pm. the story is the same with the contractor here from pittsburg. he has even less work than me to do.

I'm taking my camera out tomorrow to try and take some pictures in the afternoon.

I made it!

Well, I've ridden several airplanes throughout the last 10 years and never really thought much of flying. However lately it seems that the more I fly or the older I get the more apprehensive I get about it. Maybe it's just the recent crashes in the news, like the one that had the tire blow out on landing or the flight from lexinmgton that took off from the wrong runway. I don't know if it's just apprehension or fear, but i'm beginning to not like flying.

We hit just a little turbulence on the descent, and it really wasn't that bad but still it was enough to notice the plane tilting a couple degrees to the left and then all of a sudden a couple degrees to the right and back.

My hotel isn't bad, a comfort inn, but there is a contractor here that is staying at an extended stay hotel. he's here just as long as me and has basically an efficiency apartment. I don't even have a fridge. sheesh.

There is a nice restaraunt outside the hotel though. Bertucci's Brick Oven Pizzeria. It's like an upscale Italian place that is big on pizza too. They've good some good looking dishes and some tempting desserts. I had a really good pizza tonight while I watched the Bengals lose.

Boston - take II

Well, I was supposed to go to Boston in August but things just didn't work out. wound up spending 10 days in the hospital. yuck! doing much better now and I once again find myself with a chance to go. I leave tomorrow for a three week stay. Hopefully everything works out.

I think they have already hired a new TM for South Boston, so it doesn't look like I'll be moving there. However, all the bigwigs will be in boston this week. My boss will be there, as well as his boss and the head of the company and the TM's from a lot of other regions. Being as they are all in the same hotel, looks like I may get to hang with the bigwigs. Maybe it'll get me noticed and I'll get thought of when another TM position comes open. I checked the other day and there are openings in Pheonix, San Fran, and Moscow. Unfortunately I don't speak russian, can't afford SF, and Camille hates the heat. Boston would have been great because of Camille's family.

Camille will be coming up next week and will get to spend two weeks with me and her family from up there.

I'll have my laptop for email and such and i'll try and keep a daily log of what goes on.

Boston

Well today the boss asked if I wanted to move to Boston. Turns out that the TM up there got fired today. He said to think about it and if i wanted it he'd reccomend me for the job. So when I go up to work, i'll also be contemplating a move. housing prices up there are crazy and i'm not sure if i want to give up the house i'm in but at the same time it means a substantial pay raise and promotion. hmmm.

Going to Boston!

well the boss said we needed to send people up to Boston for a couple weeks and I volunteered. this is so sweet because Camille has family that lives up there and one uncle is getting married on our last night there. Camille has already booked her flight going into Logan Intl.

So I just checked my travel information. Ha! had to call the boss to make sure that it was correct. turns out that FLT has two teams in Boston, north and south, and both teams are double the size of our cincinnati team. So anyway it looks like i'll be flying into Providence, RI. not Logan, and I'll be staying in North Attleboro, which is about 40 minutes south of downtown boston. hmmmm. Looks like camille may have a little wait at the airport unless a relative can pick her up. fortunately I get to Providence at 5:06 and then get my rental car and she gets to Logan at 6:10.

Then the other issue is what is she gonna do when I'm working? in hollywood at least there was good public transit, subways and all. I don't know about North Attleboro to Boston.

Updates to come....

Update 1. Well it turns out that when camille first heard about the trip she thought she would have to book both flights and then the company would pay me back. it doesn't work that way. so I had her cancel my flight right away. I went today to check if I could change her flight, and as luck would have it, they canceled both tickets not just mine. So I rebooked her flight, and this time she is on the same flight as me both ways. SWEET!!!

Update 2. I called the Hotel in North Attleboro and they say that the train station is about 10 miles from the hotel. so at least Camille has a way into Boston even if she can't get to Scituate on her own.

Cat is up to no good.

Well, another day of the cat getting into mischief. today Camille caught him drinking out of the toilet. his hind legs were on the front of the seat and his front paws were in the basin. We can never seem to get him to drink out of his bowl and rarely will he even want to eat his own food. he usually has a go at the dog's food and water. what i don't get is that this time he's drinking out of the toilet when both of the other bowls are full.

He fell in the toilet a couple weeks ago and now this. even the dog doesn't drink from the toilet.