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Apr. 29th, 2008 @ 06:33 am 
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I'm in Boston, back at our offices at 116 Huntington. Flew in yesterday. Annoyingly, there are no longer any any direct flights from Burlington to Boston.
When I started at IDX (before we were bought by GE) ten years ago there were two competing airlines, US Airways and Business Express (which got bought by Delta) that BOTH offered about eight flights daily to Boston, and they were always pretty full.
Post September 11th, we've generally only had one airline offering direct flights, and recently whichever airline had been doing it shrugged and said "oh, forget it, not worth our trouble." I don't know if the fuel prices have made it unprofitable for airlines to do Burlington-Boston flights. I do know that the passengers were there; the last time I flew the flight routinely they were always packed and people were waiting on the standby list.
So I flew Burlington-to-La Guardia on a tiny little US Airways prop plane that was just loads of fun to be on in a thunderstorm, then La Guardia-to-Boston on the US Airways shuttle. I would have gotten here far faster if I'd just driven, but I hate driving in Boston traffic. And I hate paying $48 a night for parking. Even if I can expense it. Sigh.
And then I realized that when I'd hastily packed on Sunday night that I hadn't packed a rain jacket. Meaning that a vigorous cross-Boston walk for 3-Day training purposes would have to be conducted in a short-sleeved t-shirt. Stupid me. I've packed for so many trips that once in a while I just plain forget something.
Then I had an idea. There's a great Eastern Mountain Sports store a block away from our office, on Boylston Avenue, and you can shop their website and then have them hold your order for you. I looked and found that they were having a sale on Techwick wicking shirts, so I ordered a couple long-sleeved, good for a brisk outdoor hike in chilly weather, and one short-sleeved (the sale was best if you bought three) and picked 'em up last night. Provided it's not pouring tonight I'll go out anyway.
Maybe I'll walk from the Marriott at Copley Place, where I'm staying, over to Faneuil Hall for dinner or something. Round-trip, that'd be a hair over four miles. I used to do that sort of thing all the time when I was in Boston but then it got old and I started doing a lot of "oh, maybe I'll do that tomorrow night." (And that's why I'm overweight these days.)
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