Sunday, September 28, 2008

NYC, beer in Boise, and hangin' with the homeless

I'll throw down a quick synopsis of the last week or more.  Kirby and I took off to hang out with her friend Lisa in NYC.  We left at 11:30pm on the chinatown bus and the trip to NYC was about the same price as the cab ride getting to the bus.  We stayed in Brooklyn and we saw a decent exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum.  On Sat night we hung with some of her Nicaragua trip crew.  We got down in Harlem to a samba band in one bar and a hip hop band with horns a few doors down.

I then spent the week in Boise for a project I'm on to develop a thin client solution for fire camps and other emergency response.  I was staying in a sweet new Homewood Suites decked out with a full kitchen and flat screen TV.  The free breakfast was nice but the free food and beer/wine from 5-7 was better.   While there I stopped by TableRock Brewpub to sample their offerings.  Not too bad a swill.

And then don't ask how it happened but after 3am on Friday night I ended up passing out in a wet tent pitched ilegally in a park in downtown DC as part of a protest with homeless people.  Yeah you can bet that the eco-terrorist was involved.

I haven't slept in my bed in almost 2 weeks.

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