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Vox Hunt: Have This, Will Travel
Show us something you cannot leave home without.
Submitted by Quornflour.
Leaving home for the day is great. But getting home is even greater. Having spent much of the last week and a half on the road, it was so nice to pull up outside the flat and get inside, knowing that I had a whole two nights at home ahead of me. Yes, two. Luxury.
And just to make things better, Lorna had actually cooked me dinner. Yes, Lorna, cooking. Amazing.
David Manners Done Good
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Upgrading My Day
Oh, yeah, nearly forgot, BA gave me an impromptu upgrade to business class on a very quiet flight out this evening.
I feel well pleased with today. It almost makes up for the taxi driver diddling me out of €10, the swine.
Report from Our Man in Dublin
So, I'm in my Dublin hotel, and it's rather nice:
But the very best bit is this:
Yup, an in-room iPod dock/speaker system. Class.
The only downside so far is that the in-room (free) broadband is wired-only. So, no blogging from the comfy bed. Ah, well. You can't have it all.
Back
Good flight back. Shame that the time difference means that I've lost the whole day travelling.
Apple Store, 5th Avenue
Because I can't get enough of Apple product or beautiful glass-based urban design.
Presentation: Done
I got up in front of a audience of maybe 60 or 70 people, talked about what we're doing with blogging in RBI for half an hour, and survived. Anil didn't leap from his chair and wrestle me to the ground. Chris even said something nice about my presentation, but then, I'm a client, so…
Nearly lost my voice as a result, mind, but I got there.
I'm now able to relax, enjoy the rest of my time here in New York, and get all excited about the new features coming to Movable Type.
*phew*
The City That Never Sleeps
Other than cutting my lip while shaving yesterday morning (you do stupid things at 5am), leaving me looking like I'd been in a fight, the journey to New York was pretty uneventful. The trains were fine, Heathrow was fine, the aircraft was very comfortable and the BA service excellent. It went a little pear-shaped when I hit the US, though, with the taxi driver delivering me to the wrong hotel, necessitating a second cab ride downtown to the right hotel.
I stayed up as late as I possibly could, working on my presentation, and hit the sack around 11pm US. I still woke up at around 5.30 am, but I'm within spitting distance of being on US time, which is great.
Right, off to our US office.
Balmy Sutton Days
Today, I finally took an hour out of the office. Not because I wanted to, mind, just because I needed to.
And my, the weather's still mild isn't it? People were wondering about in t-shirts and dresses, rather than the rather more wrapped up look you'd expect for mid-March. Of course, Sutton still has more than its fair share of be-tracksuited chavs (who all seemed to be travelling in family packs today), but generally it was a pleasant wee walk.
Next week is likely to be a lot less balmy. I'm in New York, attending a Six Apart event, visiting our New York office and attending a conference, amongst other things. And Antony has been IMing me from the Big Apple to report that it's freezing cold. I shall be packing a coat. And gloves.
And maybe even a scarf…
Vox Hunt: It Takes Two
Audio: Share a great duet.