Weekend in Washington

Last week I was busily plugging away on a manuscript that should have been done last month. By Friday I thought things were coming together nicely until ... I found I had made a big data error (checking pays off!) and then I ran into a new series of technical difficulties, completely unrelated to the last post along those lines. (sigh)

Luckily I was able to put that projest aside for the weekend while I went to D.C. to hang out with some great friends from college. Here's the overview of the trip:

• No matter how long it's been since I've seen my college friends, it's always effortless to reconnect with them.
• Humidity in DC sucks.
• The Smithsonian museums never fail to amaze me. This trip we did the Air & Space museum and the American Indian museum. Both were very cool, but for different reasons.
• Motion sickness sucks even more than humidity. It prevented me from seeing an IMAX movie at the Air & Space museum and then it caught up with me again on a very bumpy plane ride to Albany through "severe weather."
• We went to see Shrek 3 and I'm still laughing about certain scenes, but I won't put any spoilers here.
• It took three people with college degrees a half hour to put together the pieces for a game of Hungry Hungry Hippos (for the four-year-old escorting us for the weekend). It really shouldn't be that difficult!
• I'm completely spoiled by the few traffic problems we have in Albany.