Ben is riding

Still out at our friend's place. Ben and Alan already got to ride the
tractor. Now it's horse riding time. Ben is discovering it can be a
bit painful bouncing in the saddle.

Tractor time

Today we are out at Stephen and Becka's place for a visit and bbq.
Alan gets to drive the tractor (with a little help from Stephen).

More party Picts

The boys are out on the trampoline with Maria's friend Kelsey. She is
trying to teach them a few moves.

At our friends

We are at our friend's house having a bit of a party. This is Pam and
Becky (Becky is Cindy's mom, of course). Having fun.

Pagoda?

Not exactly sure what you would call this thing. It is in a park in
Kent, WA. I happened to be walking around exploring while Cindy was
getting her hair cut and styled the other day. I think it looks really
cool.

Art at the airport

It's a big mural made entirely out of reflectors. I had noticed it any
number of times near the baggage claim, bit never really gave it a
thought. Today I ended up actually walking right by it for the first
time, and I noticed what it was made of. Cool!

On the way home

All went well with our meeting this morning. Now I'm on my way home.
That is a picture of my plane. We are just about to board here at
Boston Logon airport. I'll land at Seatac at about 9:30 pm. I'm really
looking forward to seeing my wife and kids again tonight when they
come to pick me up.

On the ground

Just landed in Boston. More later.

- Tim A.

I'm on the flight!

A middle seat, but better than nothing!

Another trip

I'm back at Seatac airport again. Another trip to Boston, MA, but this
time it is only for one night. I have a presentation to a potential
Air Force customer tomorrow.

The only trick may be getting onto my flight. When I checked in I was
told that the plane is overbooked and asked if I would consider a
later flight. And I don't have a seat assignment yet - I'm at the gate
waiting for the gate agent to show up. I would hate to get bumped to a
later flight! I try to always book straight through flights - no plane
changes, fewer chances to lose my lugage, and shorter flight times. If
I get bumped I seriously doubt I will get a straight through flight.

Well, I'll let you know how it goes as I get closer to flight time.

Dinner Time

It's still way too hot up here in the Seattle area, so we decided to
eat out. Cindy LOVES Long John Silver's (or is it just the hot grease
she loves so much?), but I'm not a fan of the place. I am, however,
fond of KFC. Lucky for us, there is a combo place not too far away. So
Cindy gets her greasy fish (with hushpuppies), and I get greasy
chicken (with biscuits - yummy).

Funny movie

Okay, right off you need to know that if you go to Tropic Thunder you
will be offended. I can promise you something in this movie will
offend you. But it is REALLY FUNNY! This movie made me laugh out loud
more than any movie I can remember.

I'm not that old!

My wife got quite a chuckle out of this, but I don't really think it
is all that funny. I am not old enough to be in the AARP! I'm in my
mid fourties, but I'm not close enough to 50 to start getting AARP spam.

Soon, I know, but not yet.

I guess they can't read

Geeze this just frosts me. I really hate it when people blatantly
ignore the law. Like these women. That sign clearly says that smoking
is prohibited, yet somehow they all three think it is okay to sit
right under the sign and have a puff.

Ugh.

On the ground again

Back on the ground at SeaTac airport again. Nothing interesting to
talk about on the flight. It was quick and painless. Just called Cindy
and she is the way to pick me up.

I really liked the village of Carmel. It is a really unusual place,
but seems like a great place to go to relax and get away from it all.

In the Hog's Breath

This is the inside of the Hog's Breath Inn where we ate dinner last
night. This part isn't really "inside" of course, it is more of a
courtyard. The restaurant part is to the left in the picture and the
bar part is to the right. It is a very nice place! A little loud when
a large business group showed up, but otherwise very nice. My only
real complaint was that they didn't have any interesting beers.

Dinner last night

My boss and I ate at the Hog's Breath last night in Carmel. This is
Clint Eastwood's place (I am told). It was a very interesting place
with good food. I had the Hog Chops and enjoyed them.

At the hotel

Whew. Finally at the hotel. The room is very nice, and up on the third
floor with a little balconey (overlooking the parking lot). The drive
actually wasn't bad and only took me about an hour. Mapquest
directions were perfectly accurate (as usual).

Weather here is cloudy/overcast with a damp breeze that is familiar to
anyone who has been to an ocean shore. I guess the shorts I packed
were a little off, but on the plus side it shouldn't be too hot for
the suit that I have to wear all day tomorrow!

On the ground

It has been lots of years since I was in an airport so small that they
let you exit both the front and back of the plane. And exit right onto
the tarmac! Ihad just walked down those stairs.

On the ground, time to find my bag and rental car, then a drive down
to Monterey.

On the plane

Just boarded the plane to San Jose. Can you show me the way to San
Jose? Only a two hour flight, and doesn't appear to be too full. More
later- they are going to tell me to turn my iPhone off in just a minute.

Time for another trip

At SeaTac airport getting going on another work related trip. I'm
heading down to Monterey, CA this time. Another tech expo where I get
to sit at a table and demo our software from my laptop and tell people
how amazingly cool it is. And it really is a great system we have
built - it's just boring sitting waiting for potential customers to
walk up then repeating a nearly identical schpeal.

Anyway, I am at the airport on a Wednesday morning. I got through
security in record time! I think I was in line for about two minutes.
I barely had enough time to snap off that picture!

Picking up pizza

Picking up pizza for dinner tonight. I cut down some tree limbs this
morning, Alan and I got our hair cut, our friends Bruce & Karen
stopped by for a short visit ( they just got back from vacation and
had some funny gifts for us ), then Cindy and I worked on clearing out
more of the downstairs. All in all, a pretty busy day!

Cindy and the boys are watching "iCarly" while I'm out getting dinner.

Heading home now...