Still have to pack and take the dogs to the kennel. Flight at 2pm

So it's been a while since I've made any real progress on the 240Z, but come the end of October I hope my weekends will finally slow down enough that I can start working on the car again with the intention of getting it running before Christmas!

The Corvette goes away in just over a week, which will leave me without a fun car to drive, so hopefully that will motivate me a little bit to work on the 240 after I get done travelling for the month of October.

So I made it back from Boston in one piece today, my mother-in-law picked me up from the airport and brought me home so I could drop my things off and head to the office.

I made it there for a few hours, got some loose ends tied up from the past week and started planning for the next two weeks. It looks like I will be headed to Dubai soon, I should know more tomorrow hopefully as to when, right now it looks like I will miss the Bloomington IL user group meeting I was supposed to present at on 10/14, but I’ve lined up a replacement speaker assuming the user group takes him!

So yesterday Carol and I went to the ball game at Fenway, here’s a quick photo I snapped there, tweaked a little bit for effect, though not sure if it is the effect I was going for.

It is just a little less than a week now until I will be making my first trek to Europe! I am excited, yet apprehensive at the same time. What will it be like? Will my white american ass be able to cope with being in a strange land? I've only been west before, Costa Rica for our Honeymoon, South Korea, Australia, Hong Kong when we lived in Guam, I was 10 at the time, so I don't remember much about being in a foreign land.

Luckily Natalie will be there by my side. She lived in Germany for 2+ years, was born and Switzerland, so hopefully she'll be able turn on her European flair to save me!

The trip to Amsterdam (Noordwijkerhout) may end up being the first week of me being out of the country for two weeks. I hope to get the rest of my trip lined up this week, but I think I might be heading to Dubai in the UAE for a week after Amsterdam. That should be fun too, though I will most likely be going solo on this one, meeting with a client, and hopefully finding time to meet up with a friend from high school in California who I believe works in the UAE for an American company now.

The unfortunate aspect of both trips is that I will end up missing two weeks of school back to back, 3 classes of lecture, as one class is scheduled for a test which I will take this week before we leave for Europe. It's been a busy couple of weeks, 10 days in Kansas, 5 days at home, 5 days (come Monday) here in the Boston area, and then 3 days at home before heading off for potentially two weeks.

I need to catch up on my sleep, though I've slept quite a bit while here in Boston, I've also spent quite a bit of time working and playing, so I am still exhausted.

More on my trips in the coming weeks, I'll be sure to take lots of photos.

I made it to Boston in one piece today, the flights were both decent, though on smaller plans (4 seats per row), I did manage to get a row to myself for both flights. In NY I was on my phone dealing with client issues most of the layover, so that kept me busy, well that and walking around the terminal with them changing gates around on me.

In Boston Auntie Carol picked me up and we came back to her place for a while, though not too long as I headed off for a client meeting and then to do my presentation at the user group tonight. They had a pretty decent showing, 25-30 people I believe, on a Thursday that is not their normally scheduled meeting. Thanks to everyone who came out for what was my first presentation to a user group as an INETA speaker!

I'm off to do some more work now, I'm working as I type this too, I'm testing out the new photo upload functionality in the Engage: Publish module, if you see the photo below it worked!

So I am excited about this coming weekend. Thursday morning I am headed to Boston to present at the New England VB User's Group, I'll be helping them to launch a new website running on DotNetNuke as part of the presentation, it should make for a cool show I hope.

After that I have some big plans! Friday for lunch I am going to the BoSox club luncheon, the Red Sox just clinched a playoff spot tonight, so this weekend's series should be all abuzz, especially since we'll be playing the F'n Yankees for the last 3 games of the year! My aunt and I will be going to the game Friday night and Sunday afternoon, I'm sure I'll have pictures up early next week.

It will be a short time back home next week as Natalie and I leave for Amsterdam next Friday the 3rd of October.

Talking with Clyde this week at the Solo Nationals I commented on his photos, asking what it meant when he had "3 exposure hdr" on his photograph descriptions on flickr. He told me that meant multiple exposure photos.

So I did a quick google and came across this thread

DPC Mentorship - Double Exposure - DPChallenge Forums

Now, I don't know when I will have time to play with this, but this is definitely something I want to play around with!