A Nice Nap in the Common...

I took some needed holiday time last week. A trip to Toronto and Niagara Falls in beautiful Canada.

I did do some work though. Stopped in Boston for a seminar at WSI. WSI is the company that makes our weather graphics system. This set of computers makes the graphics we display on TV during our weathercasts. It also does a host of other things by categorizing the non-stop stream of weather data we have flowing into the weather office.

The seminar was very interesting, and I got to see quite a few of my colleagues from around the country. You will see some improvements in our graphics as a result. James Paul flew up on Friday and attended it as well.

There are now quite a few Meteorologists who work in TV and we usually meet at least once a year. The AMS Broadcast conference is in Washington DC this August, and I will attend that as well. I must say however, that having a conference in D.C. in August makes about as much sense as having a summer beach bash in Nunavut in December!

Saturday night my wife and I headed in on the T to Boston from the seminar site in Andover, Mass. James Paul had never been to Boston before and came along with us. The heat of the day made me suddenly Ill so Marian and James Paul took off to see the bar made famous on "cheers" while I found a nice quiet park bench in Boston Common and took a nap! People have been sleeping in that park since the 1650's and I can heartily recommend it!

Later,
Dan