Well, I'm back from my trip to the North country and had a great time, but am paying the piper in trying to catch up around the office before training tomorrow through Thursday in Boston.

I've got an article started on some tips and tricks relating to cloning objects, but it looks like it's going to have to wait until the end of the week before I can get it ready for publication; so stay tuned.

The training class in Boston has only three people signed up and I don't know what discipline they are from, but a class is almost always a source of questions that will give me ideas for new blog topics.  Most of my training involves flying somewhere and it's unusual that I have classes within driving range; Boston is only about 60 miles from where I live.  However, it involves about 20 miles of the worst driving in the US and I don't have the faintest idea how long it's going to take me to get to or from class.  I'll leave my house around 6 a.m. and more than likely be home sometime just after 6 p.m., but the class itself only runs from 9-4 and the rest is commuting time.

If I drove into the center of Boston early Sunday morning and only went nominally over the speed limits I should get there in under 1 1/2 hours.  2-3 hours is more like it during the heavy commuting times and you can never really be sure whether there's going to be problems or not, so you can't take a chance and have to plan on the three hours to be safe.

More often than not, any traffic delays have very little grounding in any real problems, for example traffic tends to back up at what's called the Lynnfield tunnel which is little more than a dip in the road and an underpass and, for no apparent reason, traffic tends to back up for miles behind it.  The minute you start down into the tunnel you're back to the speed limit and traffic is flowing just fine, so it's a mental problem not a traffic problem... and I find that aggravating.

Enough "before the fact" whining and I'll just have to wait and see what happens.

Thanks for your patience

Ted