I'm back and my bed never felt so comfortable. Recap - later...
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Everything went perfectly. The food was exqusite. The hotel was spectacular.
The meetings were productive. Alas, all went well. That is... until we got
to the airport. After a brief meal (what felt like my fourth that day) we
proceeded to thru security to Gate 35a where we were greeted with the lovely
news that our flight has been delayed by an hour. No big deal right? Well no
sooner had we turned around before an announcement declared that our plane
had been delayed again. Blast. With flight cancellations popping up like
x-mas lights at a Griswold family Christmas we decided to put our four
noggins together and weigh some options - corporate meeting style. Well long
story short - I'm now in what seems to be the last rental vehicle in
Washington D.C., a Pontiac Vibe rented from Avis. We're on highway
driving... er... quickly thru a veritable hurricane/monsoon/deluge. ETA -
2:30am Thursday morning. I live for this.

p.s. This is twice this month I have ridden in a Pontiac Vibe. How 'bout
them apples?
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I'm in a cab and we're driving at breakneck speeds. What's worse is the
cabbie's trying to get directions to our hotel: the Capitol Hilton. Just
passed H street...
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There's obviously all types of laws and federal regulations being broken by
me writing an e-mail on the plane, but the good 'ol blackberry has an
airplane mode... So it just won't send anything until we land. Not to
mention that Verizon doesn't seem to have a signal 20,000 ft in the air...
can you hear me now?

Side note: one cannot stand during the last 30 minutes of flight time when
flying into Reagan National airport.

My boss just went to an off the cuff meeting (yes, in the plane) so I
thought I'd take this time to either nap or write a post. But instead of
either I think I'm going to go back to enjoying this outstanding ginger ale
(pictures later).
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I made it thru security without any problems... But the ticket counter
attendant took the liberty to make the self-service kiosk less
self-servicey by giving me a 10 minute tour of the features it had
to offer. I've also committed my "dividend miles" membership number into my
permanent memory. Nice enough fellow though. I'm off to get a soda-bev.

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I fly out to the District at 4pm today... It was recommended that I try "airport blogging" in a pseudo-live play-by-play fashion. I'll try, but you'll have to be sympathetic of my bruises (ego) when I end up stuck in the x-ray machine because I'm staring at my blackberry while walking. I'm sure the portly* attendant will assist me in a helpful and curteous manner, though.

* - a scathing generalization on my part.
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I just found out that I'm heading back up to everyone's favorite district of
Columbia, Washington. I think this makes a total of four trips up there this
year. Hopefully, my traveling woes will be minimal... seriously doubtful.

The best part of all this is that I'll be back in 28 hours. I love these
quick jaunts. They're so Alias-esque.
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