Today was quite an early and long day.  Yes, I was up at 04:30 this morning.  I had to catch a flight out of BWI at 8:00 to San Francisco.  I arrived just before 11:00 PST.  I think that they are shrinking the seats because the other option is I’m growing and that’s not an acceptable answer.

When I got to San Francisco, my bag was pretty much destroyed.  I was quite surprised that United gave me a brand new bag without much fuss.  All I had to do was fill out some very basic paperwork.

I’ve been toying with renting a car in San Francisco.  I really would only be able to use it today and on Tuesday when I need to head back to the airport.  I decided that it was not worth the hassle and I’m really pressed for time on my way home.  I.E. the meeting is supposed to let out at 5 p.m. or so In San Jose and my flight leaves at 8 p.m. from San Francisco.  In a perfect world, it’s a 50 minute commute.  My guess is it’s going to take me quite a bit longer given it’s rush.  I’m hoping that the cab knows a better route.  I say cab but what I really mean is a Limo.  It’s actually cheaper for me to take a Limo than it was taking the cab from the airport to the hotel.  The cab was $130 and the Limo is going to be $110.

I spent the day at the Great Mall.  I went and seen the movie “Bangkok Dangerous”.  It was ok, more of a DVD rental not a first run expensive movie ticket.  I ended the day having dinner at Outback Steakhouse.

I’m here for a Cisco briefing.  The group of companies represent Cisco’s more complex installations.  In our case, we’ve got one of the more complex IVR installations.  The day starts at 7:30 and runs until 10 p.m.  The last part of the day is a Docent tour of the Computer History Museum.   Tuesday starts at 7:30 and runs until 5 p.m.  I’m not staying for the dinner.  My goal is to catch a 8 p.m. flight out of San Francisco to Los Angeles.  I have a 10:30 p.m. flight out of Los Angeles to BWI.  I get home around 6:30 a.m.  It’s going to suck and I’m going to be burned out by the time I get home.

I decided to finally replace my alarm clock.  In a perfect world I wanted to dock my iPhone 3G, have it charge, and play my music.  There are really two options right now, the iHome IP99BR and the Sony ICFC1iPMK2 Speaker Dock and Clock Radio with iPod Dock (Black).

I choose the Sony as it was $50 less and got a good review at the iLounge site.  I like the fact that I don’t have to create a custom playlist for the iPhone to run with the alarm.  Whatever playlist I am using when I shut it off is what the alarm uses.  Some things that I did like about the iHome was the 7-5-2 type alarm settings.  You could set the alarm to be 7 days a week, mon-fri, or sat-sun.

Yes, two days in a row :)  Yesterday I made it to a Yoga class and today I went to the pool.  I purchased a FUP (Frequent User Pass) that gives me unlimited access to the two Anne Arundel Pools from Sept - Dec.  I tried to start out with some light swimming, I.E. I did five laps and five more with a kick board and fins.

For those who really know me, yes my true motivation was to get into the hot tub after the swim

Don’t think I deserve a pat on the back just yet.  I had a terrible day when it came to meals.  I skipped breakfast, had a steak and cheese sandwich with french fries for lunch and when I got home after swimming I ate four big helpings of Petra’s Potatoe Casserole and topped it off with about a half of a bag of Nacho chips that were within arms reach.

Yes, I talked myself into going back to a Yoga class.  I might talk a lot of … but it’s actually hard.  By the time the one hour class ended, I was a pool of sweat, exhaused, and well just flat out beaten up by a stick of a woman who can bend in ways that I could only imagine.

Petra and I started out doing Yoga last fall.  It took me three months to get to the point where I could keep up with the class and do most of the basic poses.  What’s really got me upset is that I stopped going and now I’m back at square one again.

Yes, I’m tired of carrying around a spare tire.  Petra and I have made each other a commitment to drop some of this weight.  For my part, I weighed in at 211 lbs. on Monday.  I’ve set a six month goal to be down to 185 lbs. - 26 weeks from now, I.E. Monday 3/2 is the final weigh-in.

From a BMI perspective, I’m 29.4 - in the “Overweight” category.  This year has seen some slow progress.  I started out at 225 lbs. - in the “Obese” category.  I need to weigh less than 179 lbs. to be considered at the top of the “Normal” category.  That brings me to my one year goal of being 165 lbs. for my 42nd birthday next year.

Today we visited a children’s museum in St. Petersburg. My big kid seemed to have the most fun.

It seems that the older a geocacher is, the harder they try to find the cache before the kids. In today’s case, a three year old had to help mom

Yes, there is an App available to do your Wordpress posting via the iPhone.  I just used the app to post our visit to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium.  I was even able to add pictures that I had on the iPhone.  It’s a great app and it’s free to boot.  I can’t wait to see what the next version adds.

Today we visited the Clearwater Aquarium. It cost almost 12 per person. If you’re in Baltimore, MD, I’d suggest visiting the National Aquarium. It’s huge in comparison with tons more exibits and done professionally.

Last night I finally got around to try tethering my iPhone to my Macbook Pro.  I first tried to do it via an SSH tunnel.  It mostly worked but I seemed to be experiencing the DNS BIND issues that the iPhone has.  Take a look at Jay Freeman’s article on the subject.

I finally tried the 3proxy method and it seems to work. Here’s a link to cre.ations.net which is one of a couple sites that have outlined the process.  Like others have experienced, it really SUCKS the battery dry :)  I also had a bad and I mean bad crash that took three hard boots and about 15 minutes to get my phone running again.  This is the cost for being bleeding edge and yes version 2.0 of the iPhone software is REALLY buggy.