Tomorrow I’ll be heading to Chicago to visit my Test Team for the first time. This trip will also mark my first “official” business trip with Avanade and my third trip to Chicago. I have been to a couple of Fly Back Friday’s but, I don’t really consider those business trips since it’s really an internal meeting for the region. I’m excited to go since it’ll be first trip related to client work, but I’m also looking forward to it since I’m breaking it up with vacation in between to Minnesota.
My schedule has me in Chicago Sunday night to Tuesday night, flying to Minnesota Tuesday night and staying there until Monday early morning. Then I’m back in Chicago for Monday until Thursday evening when I head back to Seattle. It’ll be kinda weird to be away from Seattle so long, but I am looking forward to the vacation break that I’ll have in between. The last time that I had off for vacation was when Jamie and I went to Washington D.C. in March for five days.
It will also be strange because currently Jamie is in London and Germany, and she’ll beat me back by a couple of days. So, when I get back she’ll be here, which will be nice since we’ll have not seen each other for over two and a half weeks. But, luckily for us there’s technology like Skype and IM to keep is in touch with each other.
But, when I’m in Chicago, I hear that the Taste of Chicago will be going on, so if I have the time I may have to go and check that out. Then when I get to Minnesota, the Taste of Minnesota will be going on, and I’m sure I’ll be going to the Bite of Seattle too when that’s in town… lots of food festivals to go and enjoy, I can’t wait.
Being somewhat proactive with my fitness, I thought it would be a good idea to get a pair of inline skates. I would be something low impact that I could do when I got home from work and it’s a little different than biking. Today was the first time that I went out with my new skates, and I got jacked up.
Skating up the University Bridge was OK, I was a little uneasy, but things were going alright. I get to the north side of the bridge and this is where I made my mistake. There are two ways down from the northeast side of the bridge. One, take the stars, or two, take the decline down to the street. I’m not 100% sure what I was thinking, but I took the decline. About half way down I lost control of my speed and I fall down on my right side. I fall mostly on my right wrist and elbow. I get scraped up pretty bad on the right elbow. I have gone no more than a quarter mile and I’ve bit it! Good job me!
I sit there for a while and suck down some water, since falling is hard work and all. I think about quitting and going home to clean myself up, or do I continue towards Fremont? I decide on the latter. The rest was fine until I hit some parade in Fremont (Solstice?) and I turn around and head back.
I get home and take my shirt off and I see the real damage I caused. It’s pretty hot, but I cleaned myself up and now I’m trying to figure out what to do next. I really didn’t like falling, so I’m not 100% sold on me continuing to inline skate. I think biking would be good for me too, but I just spent some money on these skates and I’m sure I can’t return them now. There’s always Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace to sell them, and I think I could too… but do I want to give up after the first try.. that’s the bigger question.
Isn’t it a little ironic that Microsoft gave up on developing IE for the Mac when Safari came out, but even with IE7 released to the market Apple announced that a Beta of Safari is available for Windows? Apple is a small fish in the big pond of browsers for Windows, let’s see how this changes things. How times have changed.
Oh, also, glad to see that they opened up the development of the iPhone. Should see some cool things come out of the Javascript and HTML base that will be used to make apps for the iPhone.
