{"id":325,"date":"2007-06-19T11:23:32","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T16:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/index.php\/2007\/06\/19\/travel-plans\/"},"modified":"2008-02-11T23:24:43","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T05:24:43","slug":"travel-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2007\/06\/travel-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, My Beloved and I head to Philadelphia for the annual conference<\/a> of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. It starts with a Thursday night reception, but I need to be at the hotel at 2 for the board meeting.<\/p>\n

I have created Brick subsets for two previous conferences, in Dallas<\/a> and Boston<\/a>, and a weekend workshop, in Oklahoma City<\/a>. I plan to do one for this one. Ideally, I’d post daily, from a complimentary PC for guests in the hotel lobby, and as long as I’m dreaming, there’ll be no line ahead of me and no foot-tapping yo-yo waiting for me to log off. Hey, mac, I’d say, if you were needing a computer so badly, you should’ve brought your own.<\/p>\n

I can’t accuse myself that way. I have a 6-year-old iBook. I didn’t buy the wi-fi available at the time, and most of the hard and the soft components are obsolete. I have to wait to October for the new Mac laptop. Good excuse.<\/p>\n

If I don’t get to post “live” — and I never have — then I’ll take a few days next week and make them pretty, then backdate them and post.<\/p>\n

Later, only my barber will know if I color the calendar. -30-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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