Getting Away
I get to take a nice break from life for a while. I'm being sent out of town to a training class for work. I'm going with one of my co-workers, but they tend to fall asleep around 9pm each night. Night owls rule! I've already packed my bags for the trip. Icelandic Sagas, Saxo Grammaticus, and History of the Vikings for reading, my laptop for writing, a couple of books of parts I need to machine, and a CAD/CAM program to crank out toolpaths. This is going to be great!
Not that I won't be a little busy during the day. But it's covering stuff I've been doing for the last three years, so I'm hoping it's not as intense as the last training session I went out on. There should be a fair amount of new material, but it's not entirely unfamiliar ground.
Ok, ok, so to anyone else reading this I must seem like a book mole who'd rather hole up in a motel room than go out and see the night sights. Well... Ok, you're right. I am. But to me this is as much vacation as anything else. And what do you do on a vacation? For me, at least, I like to do the kinds of things I can't do back at home. Leisure time for reading and writing is my big premium these days. I do expect to spend a fair amount of time catching the sunrise, seeing some sights, but the place pretty much shuts down after 10pm and the beach is infested with hammerheads, so why not?
The one gotcha in all this is we're driving, and it won't be my car. So if I can't reach it on foot I probably won't be able to do it. Luckily my co-worker is as much of a geek as I am, so opening with, "Hey, THAT was a long day, how about we blow off some steam and hit a book store?" will probably work. (I could use a good book store browse.) Aside from the book stores and dinner, the rest of the stuff I want to do really is within walking distance.
It should be a good trip. No internet, a bag full of books, pencils, paper, and a laptop. Can't beat it.
Woohoo!
Not that I won't be a little busy during the day. But it's covering stuff I've been doing for the last three years, so I'm hoping it's not as intense as the last training session I went out on. There should be a fair amount of new material, but it's not entirely unfamiliar ground.
Ok, ok, so to anyone else reading this I must seem like a book mole who'd rather hole up in a motel room than go out and see the night sights. Well... Ok, you're right. I am. But to me this is as much vacation as anything else. And what do you do on a vacation? For me, at least, I like to do the kinds of things I can't do back at home. Leisure time for reading and writing is my big premium these days. I do expect to spend a fair amount of time catching the sunrise, seeing some sights, but the place pretty much shuts down after 10pm and the beach is infested with hammerheads, so why not?
The one gotcha in all this is we're driving, and it won't be my car. So if I can't reach it on foot I probably won't be able to do it. Luckily my co-worker is as much of a geek as I am, so opening with, "Hey, THAT was a long day, how about we blow off some steam and hit a book store?" will probably work. (I could use a good book store browse.) Aside from the book stores and dinner, the rest of the stuff I want to do really is within walking distance.
It should be a good trip. No internet, a bag full of books, pencils, paper, and a laptop. Can't beat it.
Woohoo!
posted by pencil at 4:09 PM
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