Monday, July 30th, I left for a business trip to Baltimore. I got to the airport around 3pm, then departed for Reagan National (note that this is not Baltimore) around 8pm. My luggage stayed in Boston. Delta is not one of my 400 favorite airlines right now. We'll see how that changes when I send them the receipts for the clothes I had to buy.
The problem is not really that the bag was late - I rescheduled my flight after a cancellation at the last second. The problem is that when I called Tuesday I was told it was out for delivery. It was not. I, therefore, missed my one good opportunity to go to the mall. Wednesday, I learned the bag was still at the BWI airport and "should be delivered in 12 hours." Haha, like I believe that. The desk guy at the Sheraton informed me that the bag delivery is done by contractors in what appear to be personal car-sized vehicles.
I skipped a morning of work Wednesday to get clothes from the mall. Though I had enough to last two days, I decided the risk was too great and that my bag needed to be in my hands Wednesday night. If I wanted until Thursday (ie, my departure day) the stupid bag would likely have been put on a vehicle for delivery and thus unreachable. I went to BWI and found it and picked it up along with an address to send receipts to.
Thursday afternoon, I flew back to Boston (carried-on this time, bitches).
Thursday afternoon, 3 hours later, I flew to Las Vegas on JetBlue. Woo! Shiny! I got some cards and dice and saw Penn & Teller at the Rio! I attended some talks at Defcon as well. I really like the presentations about locks and physical security, and the presentations given by military guys are usually very interesting too. Desert heat is soooooooooo goooood. Ahhhh, comfy.
Monday evening, back to Boston. I attended a conference for three days in the city and managed to get a stroke-quality migraine the second day, but the topics were still fun.
Of the 24 hours that made up Sunday, I slept about 15 of them. Squeezing the three things together was a bit overwhelming.
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