It is always hard to encapsulate a trip in a few paragraphs. Maybe not for everyone, but for me there is simply too much information to neatly put into anything that anyone else would ever read.
So.
I left early Saturday. The traffic was thin and I made good time. I went through Massachusetts without realizing it, then landed at my friends neighborhood.
GPS is great for getting to the general vicinity. I had to call, because when the GPS said I was there, I was a block away.
We hung out then went for a late breakfast at Denney's.
Later while talking, various subjects came up and he would use his multi-media system to pull up different websites and youtube videos. We went through photo albums and reminisced. Sunday was another old friends birthday and we tried to find his phone number. Finally got it through FB. That turned into a conference call with all of us on speaker. It was like 35 years had simply vanished.
Holy crap, the stupid shit we did in our 20s. Base jumpers and idiots aside, kids these days are too wrapped around there own "look how cool I am" axel. We honestly have no excuse why we are still alive. Other than natural selection.
We went to a poker game in a guy's basement. Nice house. Nice basement.
I don't play poker, so it was mostly watching the interplay, the Yankees-Red Sox game on the big screen and watching the three pretty women in the room. It was interesting, if slightly boring. You can only look at another man's pretty wife for so long before starting to creep yourself out.
The night was long - my host has a guest room, but the bed was too soft and the pillows too soft. I didn't sleep much.
We watched "Skyfall" the next morning over coffee and pancakes. While his wife was out of the room we commiserated over the director killing off the hot French chick. Hot French chicks should never be killed off in James Bond movies.
Or is that just me?
That night I went to work with him. Plugged in with him while he worked Boston Approach in the Tracon.
I was in a room that looked like this (except it was dark):
Looking at a display that looked like this:
It was interesting, but I got bored after a while. So I went back to his house and watched "The Last Ship" while he finished his shift.
The next day we launched for Foxwoods. Over two days I net lost $100, and he net won $200 - mostly from a poker tourney. We walked around.
There was a dearth of eyeball liberty - Foxwoods is not Vegas.
I made my way home, windows down and radio up.
Still catching up on sleep. It is hot and steamy in Maine. I noticed that it was a degree hotter in 'Salem's Lot than San Antonio.
Now a hurricane is trotting up the coast. It should miss us, but the next few days will be heat and thunderstorms.
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