Month: October 2014

Back from New York (and I don’t have ebola)

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The past two weeks involved a lot of hard work (and very long days), but the upgrade was a success and I’m back home in Florida. Here’re some tidbits from my trip:

  • $17/night for WiFi at the Marriott East Side? and no room service?
  • there’s literally a Starbucks on every block here … sometimes more than one on a block!
  • next spring our office is moving to 1 Rockefeller Plaza, right across from the ice rink and Today Show
  • ah, NYC pizza and chicken parm from La Bellezza
  • saw a crew filming an episode of “Blue Bloods” across the street from the office at St. Bart’s
  • missed the solar eclipse (couldn’t get anywhere where I could see the sun in the city)
  • I saw “Pippin” at the Music Box Theater, with Lucie Arnaz
  • the ebola thing happened the day before I left
  • got to use TSA Pre-Check at JFK on the way home … nice!

Two weeks in New York City

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Hard to believe it’s been four years since my last business trip to Manhattan! But it’s time for another PeopleSoft Financials system upgrade so I’m off to New York City for the next 12 days.

I left this morning from Tampa, flew into JFK on JetBlue, took a car into the city, checked into my hotel, and was in the office on Park Avenue by 3pm. Until next Friday, this’ll be the easiest day of the trip. We’ll be working all weekend, so that means 12 straight days in the office.

I forgot how loud the city can be, even up on the 18th floor. The weather is moderate, but looks to be rainy and chilly next week.