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Thanks to my new job , I get to spend the next 3 weeks in the San Jose area while I go for training. I left today and should be back on March 8th. Currently I’m in Chicago, waiting on my flight to San Jose.

Since I was told Tuesday I was leaving this weekend, I haven’t really had the time to make any plans for while I’m in CA. While I’m sure most of my weekdays will be filled with studying, I do plan on going out on the weekends. I’ll have a rental car but its shared between 5 of us. My first order of business will be to get into San Francisco next weekend for WonderCon and hopefully headed to one of the iFanboy party’s at night. Other than that, I really have no plans but I’m sure I’ll figure something out.

Flight
My fight was, well, underwhelming. This was my first time flying and between everything everyone was telling me and everything I was reading, I was expecting the worst.

Two Words: Weak Sauce

Took a 1:30hr flight to Washington DC, which was delayed on the runway for 45mins then had a 1hr layover before taking the 5hr flight to San Francisco. On flight movie, The Queen, sucked so I spent most of my time listening to my iPod and near the end broke out my macbook and watched a few episodes of Veronica Mars.

Only thing that sucked was when we were descending, the cabin pressure destroyed my sinuses. I’m still feeling pretty shitty because of it.

Arrived into SFO kinda late. Took a shuttle to the hotel, grabbed a bite to eat in the hotel restaurant then just chilled for the rest of the night

Hotel
I stayed at the Ramada Plaza Hotel on Market St and it is not somewhere I will be going back too either.

• homeless people everywhere
• free internet was so slow it was useless
• maids never left any washcloths
• vending machine was busted
• shuttle from airport to hotel wasn’t free
• breakfast wasn’t free
• bathroom had empty shampoo bottles on top of the shower

And when the shuttle dropped us off, they gave me the wrong luggage. I was lucky the women who got mine caught it in time and called my cell.

Sightseeing
Since Macworld didn’t start until Tuesday, I pretty much had all day Monday to go sightseeing. Me and my buddy ended up walking all the way from the hotel to Fisherman’s Wharf. Grabbed a bite then headed to Alcatraz and took the tour. After that we walked back to the hotel and started to head for Ebisu for sushi. After walking about 15 miles all day, we took a cab to Ebisu’s. The sushi was awesome. Definitely somewhere I would go back. After we left we decided to try our luck on the Muni to get home.

Lesson #1 in SF: Learn to use public transportation.

What cost us $20 in cab fare, cost $1.50 to get back. Live and Learn.

I’m headed to Macworld 2007 in San Francisco. Got my free exhibits pass, booked the hotel room and requested days off from work already. I still need to book the get my flight tickets which I should have taken card of in a week or two. I’m still up in the air if I want to purchase the Users pass which included the Keynote. I have until Dec to really decide that tho. When I requested my PTO, my manager kinda looked at me and said it was still a busy time so I hope it wont be a problem. I did tell him my flight and hotel were already booked and said its ok. So we will see.

I’m excited. This is my first trip ANYWHERE. Never been on a plane before either so I’m looking forward. If anyone else is going to be out there for Macworld, drop me a line and maybe we can hook up while I’m out there.