Boston & Bust
Sometimes I do absolutely love my job. These past few days I didnt think I would though. After getting back from San Francisco I got two days to chill out before being bundled back on another plane to Boston to support a Financial Services roundtable at Microsoft's Technology Centre in Waltham, MA. Personally that sounds about as much fun as being trapped in a barrel with Liam Neeson (I should qualify that by saying I hate Liam Neeson). I'd got one night in Boston, and a 6 hour flight at either end with Alaskan "we dont believe in entertaining our passengers" airlines. But.. Boston was absolutely gorgeous, for a brief moment I questioned my decision on relocating to Seattle, and then somebody reminded me the only reason I'm getting a relocation is to support Microsoft, so I kind of have to be here.
What's even better is that thanks to the marvels of corporate entertainment, I got to do something which would make any knowledgable baseball fan curl up and cry. I got to do the legends tour of Fenway Park. I knew nothing about baseball before Monday night, but we got to walk around the park before the game started, I found out that it's the oldest and most presitigous ball park in the States, and generally is seen as true baseball mecca. I got to stand on the famous green monster (highest wall in any park), and then we got shown to our Legends suite.. so called because we were joined by, and entertained by one of baseballs biggest legends, an awesome player from the 70's called Fred Lynn. Really nice guy, took the time to sit and explain how baseball worked to me as well, signed a ball for me and was generally a jolly nice chap.
So.. I've been suitably educated, my friends here are all very jealous of me, and I'm slowly beginning to realise based on peoples reactions just how big a deal all that was.
Big difference watching the Red Sox play compared to the Seattle Mariners, so I might switch to supporting the Red Sox, apparantly there's no loyalty issues and I can use the "I'm foreign" excuse anyway!
Flew back into Seattle on Tuesday, exhausted but happy...
What's even better is that thanks to the marvels of corporate entertainment, I got to do something which would make any knowledgable baseball fan curl up and cry. I got to do the legends tour of Fenway Park. I knew nothing about baseball before Monday night, but we got to walk around the park before the game started, I found out that it's the oldest and most presitigous ball park in the States, and generally is seen as true baseball mecca. I got to stand on the famous green monster (highest wall in any park), and then we got shown to our Legends suite.. so called because we were joined by, and entertained by one of baseballs biggest legends, an awesome player from the 70's called Fred Lynn. Really nice guy, took the time to sit and explain how baseball worked to me as well, signed a ball for me and was generally a jolly nice chap.So.. I've been suitably educated, my friends here are all very jealous of me, and I'm slowly beginning to realise based on peoples reactions just how big a deal all that was.
Big difference watching the Red Sox play compared to the Seattle Mariners, so I might switch to supporting the Red Sox, apparantly there's no loyalty issues and I can use the "I'm foreign" excuse anyway!
Flew back into Seattle on Tuesday, exhausted but happy...
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