Franklinsanity
A crank's musings on family, drink, travel, food & life
Category: work
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6:42 am Tuesday, New Haven CT: seventeen years in, can we give a shout out to the venerable but still durable and amazingly well done MetroCard vending machines? Growing up in NYC, I hadn’t given much thought to these things since ’99, when I think they were introduced (sorry, too impatient to check Wikipedia, which…
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440 pm Tuesday, Chicago, Illinois – The Langham is a fine hotel. Glossy. Spare. Elegant. Your check-in experience is conducted in hushed undertones. Or at least mine was. The positive effects of all this were unfairly limited by the huge number of tourists and passers-by and police hovering around the building across the street. Which…
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9:45 am, Tuesday, Bradley International Airport. At long last, trying a new mobile work strategy from the East Coast: the regional airport. With typical and brain-dead big metro area bias, for me this was an overlooked option for exiting CT. It seems bigger is not at all better when it comes to airports, provided you’re…
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9:22 am, New Britain, CT: rainy day. Heading into the city for meetings. Oasis on the radio. Very emo and moody and all. Many emails and documents piling up. This of course is part of what commutes are for. Provided you have wifi, which I do. HHW decided last minute to commute with – setting…
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