Today I handled some stuff for Gary during the day, ran a few errands (wish I remembered what). Got an email from Klaus, that oma will be returning home from Germany on 4th. David scheduled a meeting with me on 5th, in NYC. Trouble is with...
I am interested and I am available.
The only problem is the technical problem of transportation - but technical problems can be solved.
My options are
- drive 7+ hours and get lost in the Big Apple, and have all the trouble of parking
- drive 6 hours, leave the car at some subway station and ride into town
- Spend 10 hours on the train
- 2 hours on a plane from Norfolk (ORF)
Few emails later
The best variant I can think of is to visit my old friend Burt in DC (you may remember him, he's an old face on UA). I could drive to him the previous evening, get on a train early in the morning - and do the same on the way back. The train (depending on the comfort level etc) is between $144 and $300, and I think I can be on Manhattan by 10am. I can drive to DC and back with approximately one tank of gasoline, which is below $20, and I think I can find my way from Penn Station to Fifth avenue.
One more detail - I have absolutely no business attire. Actually, I never had. I'm wearing jeans and sweaters. Even on fox conferences, I didn't stand out - but you know fox people. The last time I had a suit and a tie was when I was getting married. In all the places where I worked so far, it didn't matter. Let me know if it matters on Fifth.
Wrote to someone with a proposal to give a lecture on VFP as a text generator and consumer. Now (more than seven years later) it still looks viable, usable and blazingly fast.
Most of the day we were in Richmond, visiting the girls. They have some gaming gear now, a Playstation I kind of remember, so most of the time they were taking turns at the controller.