12/17/2005 12:25:00 PM|||Brian|||I'm never driving to Boston again, I found nirvana. This past Thursday I had an opportunity to go down to Boston for a free Microsoft developer event, and while I had originally intended to take the train down for fun, the train's schedule just didn't jive with the event times. So instead I opted to take the bus, which I had taken before to Logan, but it had been awhile. Except for the slight mechanical difficulties right outside of South Station on the way down, this is the way to travel: $23 (same day round trip) fare, coach seating (this isn't a transit bus), free coffee, free Portsmouth Herald, center of town location, free parking, and departing at least every hour... I say let someone else worry about traffic. The nice touch though was, since I left early morning and got back around 7pm, the driver had the lights off. One minute I was driving down 1, next minute I was waking up in Newburyport... come to think if it, I think I might have done that before driving myself. As an aside, I love Microsoft events, if for nothing else than for the food (again this was a free event): Breakfast: I had a muffin and coffee. I could have opted for a bagel and/or danish as well as juice. Lunch: I had the roast beef lunch "box" which, besides the roast beef sub, included: pretzels, pasta salad with olives, Vermont cheese, a big cookie, a orange, and a choice of soda or water. Afternoon snack: I had chips and a soda. For chips they had baskets and baskets of at least eight different kind of chips... from pita chips to Frito Twists. I could have sworn I saw on a slide during one of the presentations a heading: "How To Serve Human"... but I was having trouble breaking into my cookie to read the bullet points.|||113484233162818002|||Home James (Or Whatever Your Name Is)12/18/2005 03:21:00 PM||| gagknee|||Man. My boss and another guy i work with went to that event. I was angry (well, not really angry, i did get to screw around a lot because my boss was gone all day) because they didn't invite me. I love'em. day off work, food, etc.

Anyway, i dont know if you watch The Office, but the guy who went with my boss, IS Dwight. He doesn't have cable and has no idea what The Office is but when we call him the Assistant TO the IT Director, he just beams with pride.

hehe, someday he is going to rent The Office DVD.12/18/2005 03:58:00 PM||| Kreblog|||I made sure that, when I first heard about the event, I put my name of the list as soon as possible to avoid any, "we'll have too many people out that day", denials.

I must say that I have come around to the American version of "The Office". Having been a fan of the original, it was hard to watch the American version in the beginning because it seemed like they were just retelling the same jokes. But having picked it up again, they have done a good job of making it their own.