Clifton Park, 2006
We had an alpha release meeting for our software package in Clifton
Park. This time I was able to ride with Steve instead of driving
myself.
Mon December 11, 2006
Steve picked me up at 8am, with Ron in the front seat, so I sat behind
him. I was half dozing on the trip west to Albany. We got through
Albany with no problems and jagged north to Clifton Park, and at first
we were going to go direct to the offices, but we checked in first,
since we exited the highway right by the hotel. Over to the offices in
the industrial park, and started meeting at around 11am. We ordered in
Chinese food, and unfortunately it didn't agree with me - my stomach
was sour all afternoon. Got some work done, cleared up some issues,
got some updates on the RAID disk recovery effort and knocked off at
around 6pm. Back to the hotel and then over to Chilli's to eat, across
the parking lot from the hotel. Wendy arrived as I was finishing up,
so I gave up my seat on the bench to her, and went back to the hotel
to take a bath and get some sleep.
December 12, 2006
I think we started at 8am, moving to a meeting room on the first floor
of the hotel to accommodate the larger group. It was like a mini
programmer's week, well, a programmer's day, and we got lots
done. They ordered in Quizno's subs for lunch, and we knocked off at
around 4pm I think to head back to Boston. Ron, Steve and I had a huge
debate on I90 about where we should stop to eat, I was text messaging
google sms to try and find a diner Cris had told me about near
Springfield, but all the diners I got back phone numbers for were
closed. Steve eventually mentioned that the inn at which he'd been
married was coming up in about a half hour, so we settled on a sit
down dinner at the ???? Green Inn? It was pretty crowded, there were
at least two holiday parties taking over various rooms in the inn, we
ate in the bar area, with a woman playing piano in the corner. I had a
seafood shepherd's pie that was piping hot and really good. It was
good to relax and get some healthy food before continuing the rest of
the way to Boston. They dropped me off first and I pretty much
collapsed.
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