GFMorris.com » Philadelphia http://gfmorris.com The Life and Times of Geof F. Morris Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:30:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 2009 gfmorris@gfmorris.net (Geof F. Morris) gfmorris@gfmorris.net (Geof F. Morris) posts 1440 Music I Love Geof F. Morris Geof F. Morris gfmorris@gfmorris.net No yes http://gfmorris.com/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GFMorris.com http://gfmorris.com 144 144 My CC in Philly Trip as a Mastercard Commercial http://gfmorris.com/2008/02/26/my-cc-in-philly-trip-as-a-mastercard-commercial/ http://gfmorris.com/2008/02/26/my-cc-in-philly-trip-as-a-mastercard-commercial/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:53:56 +0000 Geof F. Morris http://ijsm.org/archives/2008/02/26/my-cc-in-philly-trip-as-a-mastercard-commercial/ Tank of gas to drive to and from Nashville: $45
Round trip ticket to PHL from BNA: $203
Nine hours of a rental car [a Saturn VUE, which drove like a wounded manatee compared to my WRX ... DO NOT WANT]: $93, including refueling
Philly cheesesteak: FREE, but only because Gary bought my dinner. [Great to meet everyone on that trip, but I won't lie, I really wanted to finally meet Gary and his wife.]
Number of hours slept from Saturday morning forward until Monday evening: 6.5
Number of hours slept on airplanes: 2.5
Number of hours slept in the breezeway outside Terminal D at PHL: 0.5
Number of hours slept on Monday night before waking up, unable to return to sleep, leading me to come out here and blog this: 5
Number of times I have cursed the inability to sleep until my 0545 alarm: 9 (so far)
Number of week taken off of my life as a result of this trip: Unknown, but probably six
Hearing Derek and Danielle power through “Climb On (A Back That’s Strong)”: PRICELESS

That was fun, but I really don’t want to do it again anytime soon. But like Bryan said in a forum post yesterday: if that’s the last Caedmon’s Call show I ever see, I can die a happy man.

[Yes, I recorded it. Yes, I'm releasing it. This is just a busy week.]

]]> http://gfmorris.com/2008/02/26/my-cc-in-philly-trip-as-a-mastercard-commercial/feed/ 1 15 Hours in Philadelphia http://gfmorris.com/2008/02/12/15-hours-in-philadelphia/ http://gfmorris.com/2008/02/12/15-hours-in-philadelphia/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:41:47 +0000 Geof F. Morris http://ijsm.org/archives/2008/02/12/15-hours-in-philadelphia/ I’ve had a lot of fun conversations this week [and it's just Tuesday]. My favorite was today with my boss.

“Oh, hey, I’m gonna be late on the 25th.”

“What is that?”

“Monday, the week we ship [the hardware job we're shipping on Friday that week].”

“Oh, I don’t think that’ll be a big deal. Where ya gonna be?”

“Well … I’ll start the morning in Philadelphia, and I’ll be in Nashville by 0815 and here by 1030 or so.”

And the fun thing is that my boss didn’t even bat an eyelash. He … well, he knows I’m insane.

Indeed, I am: after two hockey games that weekend, I’ll drive to Nashville Sunday morning, hop a plane to PHL, land, get a rental, drive almost to Trenton, New Jersey, watch Caedmon’s Call in concert [and hang out with Bryan and Mark, which is reason enough to go in and of itself], chill with the band after the show, then mosey back down to PHL and fly home first thing Monday morning.

Won’t be the first time I’ve grabbed a little shuteye at an airport before winging my way back home and then to the office.

Yeah, I’m insane. But this is how I roll. [And I have new camera equipment to roll with! My Canon EF 28mm f/2.8 showed up yesterday, and my EF 85mm f/1.8 USM arrived today. My mics show up, well, whenever Sound Professionals gets off their duffs and ships it to me.] And yes, I’ll have more equipment than other baggage.

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