Borklog: One entry

31 July 2001

Greetings from Boston! I'm on a new project for aD, and this week is the kick-off (lots of meetings going over the spec, planning development, etc). It's my first Java project here (first Java project ever), so I'm terrified out of my mind getting into completley new tools and toolkits. That's what makes it fun I guess. The trip up was plesantly uneventful. After taking my Oracle DBA test this morning, I went to the Pittsburgh airport (an hour and a half drive) and hung around for a couple of hours. I'm weird - I like airports, the food, the people there (had a pleasant chat with the ticketing agent as we unsnarled my reservations that were a day shifted from ), and the chapels. They're a nice, quiet place to get away from the general Crush of Humanity (which can get wearing after awhile). I usualy just sit in the corner and medidate, and it's nice being able to rest ones eyes and not worry about some Bad Guy running off with your computer bag. The one in Pittsburgh is small and hidden away on a small upper level most folks ignore. The one in Boston's Logan airport is *huge*, the inside probably on par with First Lutheran of Leechburg's interior. Nice and dark and covered in brick. The Boston one has the obligatory "donate a dollar and light a candle" thing, except the "candles" are electric. Kind of takes the mystique out of them I guess.

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