Monday, January 19, 2009

A Very Long Day

The flight from Chicago wasn't too bad, and I managed to get some sleep on the plane, but not a lot, maybe a couple hours. Despite being late in leaving CHI, we landed early, about 5:40am this morning. We must have been the first plane because I waited in line for about 5 minutes for immigration and no one was manning customs, so I breezed through.

I was slightly nervous, but Rachel at Red Gate came through and the taxi guy was standing there as I walked out of the secure area. Grabbed my bags and we drove to Cambridge, me reading as the sun came up.

I was hoping for an hour to do a run and wake up a bit before work, but I only had about 30 minutes, so I showered, changed, and went downstairs to meet the rest of the US group. After a taxi ride to the office, which took 30 minutes, about double what I expected and made me a little nauseous because I was facing backwards, I got to work and got coffee, wandering around and greeting people.

It was a quiet day, a few meetings, and I made it back to the hotel. I did my day 132 run and now it's time for dinner before I come back here and crash.

FYI, bandwidth in the UK stinks.

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