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It’s finally time for my annual Spring Training trip! Three days of baseball, beer, and brats. 🙂

My tech arsenal this year consists simply of my EeePC and iPhone. Between the two of those devices I should be able to handle any work-related emergency that might arise and still stay “connected” while traveling. The iPhone apps I installed specifically for this trip include:

• Geocaching: for our hiking trip on Camelback Mountain tomorrow.
• MLB.com at Bat Lite: to keep tabs on the other Spring Training games.
• NCAA March Madness On Demand Lite: ’cause there’s some basketball going on right now too!
• TripIt: I decided to test out the service with this trip and see how it goes, pretty cool.

I’ll also try using the WordPress app on my iPhone to post updates to this blog.

5:52am (EDT): I’m at the gate at the Tampa airport waiting to board my flight to Houston. yawn

8:27am (CDT): waiting on my connection to Phoenix here in Houston. The flight here was uneventful and I made some good headway on “Anathem” (about 68 pages). My connection is slightly delayed since the plane just came in from Peru and needs to go through customs.

10:56am (MST): in Phoenix! A broken seat delayed my departure from Houston more than expected, but I’m finally here! Now to find my brother (who should be here by now) and get my luggage.

12:23pm: we’re at the Goodyear Ballpark. Our (padded!) seats are in the second row down the first base line. It’s beautiful out.

3:44pm: we’ve finally seen a win at Goodyear (every game we went to last year were losses)! The Tribe beat the Reds 6-2. The park was pretty empty, only about 4,300 people in attendance. That’s surprising considering it was the two “home” Ohio teams playing, but it was also a weekday game.

5:15pm: we’ve checking into our hotel in Avondale and are getting cleaned up and ready to head out for dinner.

6:30pm: waiting for a table at the Yardhouse at Westgate Center in Glendale. Quite a beer selection.

7:40pm: dinner was fantastic. I had the (Mac + Cheese)2 and tried a six-pack sampler:

7:46pm: there’s a huge bike show going on here, it’s loud and there are some impressive-looking motorcycles.

9:00pm: back at the hotel, exhausted. Considering it’s midnight back home, and we’ve been up since 4am, it’s time for bed.