At the insistence of my supervisor, I am attending a Linux cluster course at Georgetown University. I will be in Washington D.C. until the end of the week. Here are some first day notes I composed while watching the movie Jennifer Anniston will never watch - aka Mr. and Mrs. Smith - starring former hubby Brad and his new wife Angie Jolie:
The flight to Washington D.C. Went without a hitch. I was stopped by the TSA bureaucrats at Houston Intercontinental because I didn't take my laptop out of my carry on baggage. They lectured me for future reference.
Upon arriving, one notices how close the Reagan airport is to the rest of the city. The Washington D.C. area is absolutely booming, as befits a city in which 22 percent of America's economy flows through. Money fills the air. Office buildings loom everywhere. Georgetown is a very yuppified college town type area. Looking at all these massive bureaucratic temples makes me want to vomit.
I got lost going from the airport to the hotel. A government bureaucrat told me some general directions on how to get to the Georgetown area. Once I got here, I found my bearings on my own and wended my way to the hotel.
I found a Safeway supermarket on the Georgetown campus. Good news since I had to buy various toiletries. Hordes of people from International places and good looking college aged girls all making a mad rush to shop since it's the first week of the autumn semester.. It all makes me feel old - two of them called me sir.
I already miss Houston.
Sigh... More tomorrow.
Posted by The Mighty Wizard at August 28, 2006 08:19 PM