Borklog: One entry

28 February 2002

Vinod reminded I needed to rant today before he heads off to New York to pick up bag ladies. We played our concert in Omaha on Sunday evening, and then started driving monday morning heading back to Pittsburgh (about 950 miles or so). After a pretty mild winter, this is also the time that the Weather Folks are predicting the Winter Storm of the Century of The Week. Just outside of Chicago it started snowing. And snowing. And snowing. Our goal of driving for the day was to get near South Whitley, IN so we could visit the Fox Products Corporation factory, who made my bassoon. We made it as far as Warsaw, IN before getting into complete white-out conditions. We found a Hamster Inn that had some rooms open. It turns out this hotel had the Midwest Eternal Flame. A gas log fireplace in the lobby. When we asked "how late is the fireplace open", Ryan, the desk clerk said that the fire has never been off since he's worked there (about two years). After a pleasant evening by the fire in the lobby (sharlotte with stitching, me with the Tibook describing how to do cocoa programming in mac os X without having to do your editing in Project Builder), we headed to South Whitley the next morning for the factory tour.

The factory tour was really neat. If you have a Fox oboe or bassoon, you should go visit the folks who made it. After that we headed towards Columbus OH. After hitting more snow, we decided to light in Whackamole, OH, where we discovered we were next to the Neil Armstrong Air And Space Museum. Which is a wonderful air and space museum! I'm not sure if I like it, or The air and space museum better. After that was an uneventful drive home. In the snow.

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