Saturday, November 14: A Day in Lancaster

View from Hotel Room

Well I got up at 7:30 in the comfortable yet plane hotel room in Lancaster. I got a nice breakfast with all the fixings. I ran into some people I've seen

A Bogus Dear Governor!! :(

around. Not many but a few.

Breakfast

This is the official part of the day from 845 to 12 noon. That was quite a meeting there.

New footings to take place but the motion on the floor that ended up being defeated but it was semantics

Funny Question LOL

really. It was handled all right. I'm gonna go out to lunch with some guys and then if there's time left take a

Texas Road House

short little mini nap. Did not have time to take the nap but I did go to three workshops and they were all

Lancaster Host Resort.

pretty good. After the last when I came back to the hotel room and took a nap and blues that need

Nice

it. I then went to the buffet dinner which was pretty nice hung out with my hotel mate and couple other

Dinner

people I know from Center City Philadelphia. I met up with someone I used to see and they

Me

recognize me as well who's nice to see them. After dinner and peach pie two guys are talking about Samuel

The "27" Balloon

Beckett and I sat there like a dump so I decided to take a nap. I overslept a bit for the meeting so I'm going to try to get the 830

Paris Terror Attacks Dominate the News

meting.  There were two speakers both of them are trustee. After that, which was approximately 1030, I

Ummm. Pie!

headed towards bed or my hotel meet with already here. Watched a little bit about the Paris terrorist

A Group

attacks and then I crashed to have a crash. Geez was I tired. So far so good this weekend.

Friday, November 13: Work to Lancaster Pa.

Good morning on a nice mild morning. I got up and packed for my trip. I got the 48 19th got some coffee and caught the L and the trolley in good time. I did

Nice  Day for a Walk

not sleep that well but I'm trucking drinking my

On Da Bus

coffee. I'm going to work till about 1230 or 1:30 PM. I'm then going to go to Lancaster Pennsylvania

for the weekend for a conference. It's about an hour and a half away from Philadelphia going West. Well I got to work and it was a bit spastic. Friday's

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seem to be the day that pent-up stuff pops.

View From the EL

up. So me and a coworker had an intense discussion with supervisor. After that I saw a couple of

people and slog going through the 15 alert that I had. I am finished little bit less than half of them. I had take-out Chinese for lunch and barely got

View From Back of Office

out the door by 3:15 PM to catch the EL. I have to catch the

Work As I Came In

Amtrak train to Lancaster by 3:45 PM. I did catch the train. The line was very long but it went pretty quickly

I will arrive in Lancaster around 4:30 PM It's a busy schedule check this out!

Computer Takes Awhile to Load Up

In fact some of it started around 2 o'clock but I just left

Buzy @ Work

Philadelphia a minute ago I think now and pictures of my block and then you can have. I'm in the

Its 3:15 PM

quiet car so nobody talks here. Apparently there's no Wi-Fi on this train. I tried to figure it out but

Made It Just in Time

maybe later 

on. I think I'm gonna take a nap. Woman next to me is very pregnant. Well I slept most of the ride there.

It was a very smooth ride. I barely heard them announce Lancaster. I just arrived in Lancaster and I just got picked up by the van. I'm gonna go up to my room

Boarding the Train

which is up on the fifth floor and get some coffee.

On the Train

I'm pretty tired. This train station didn't have anything but a soda machine and there's no coffee shops

within eyesight of the train station. It's pretty cold out now @ 5:28 PM. I just got in the hotel where room 558. There is a buffet dinner. The room is way in the

Lancaster Train Station

back with the wing is. So here we

The Roads Near the Train

go. Well we had dinner & and it was pretty good. Had some coffee which I really needed. Got to see

my roommate for the weekend as well. I just heard from my friend Joe I haven't heard from Lee six months.

Train Station to Hotel

He has issues with his feet and he moved out there for Derby. He was really eager to talk. It was good to

Paris ATTACKED!!

hear from him. There's a terrible terrorist bombing in Paris gunmen were shooting that hostages in a movie

theater in there talking about 100 people killed from reports am getting on the Internet. Well the first big meeting is at 7:45 and then there's another one after

Dinner

that one. So it's going to be a lot packed in here.

Stats

You should be an interesting experience for me. I bought new copies of books that I have not  had in a while. Temperature supposed to drop down the to the  30s but I'll be in the hotel so won't matter too much. It's now 9:00 PM I threw out the last bit of my coffee

cause I hit critical mass taking a break and I went to a GSR orientation.

books and Stuff

Paris Bombing by ISIL

 at 9:15 PM.  I skipped the ice cream social and the midnight meeting. Instead went back to the hotel

Speak

room & watched Real Time w/ Bill Mahr. Nothing just fell sleep   I didn't sleep very well last night.