At some point over the weekend I managed to catch a cold of sorts. I noticed some syptoms prior to the wedding on Friday night, but it progressively got worse as the weekend went on, migrating from discomfort in my intestines Fri\/Sat into a head cold on Sun\/Mon. I even took yesterday off (a rarity for me).<\/p>\n
Well, it’s rare for me to take a day off for being sick. It’s quite common for me to be taking time off for vacations and holidays.<\/p>\n
Anyway, the head cold isn’t so bad (yet) so I’m back to work.<\/p>\n
Oh, and despite being essentially home-ridden all weekend because of this bug I’ve got, Randy and I did try to explore the Boston Illuminale 08 on Sunday night. What a joke. Supposedly, all of these buildings and bridges were to be illuminated spectacularly (like Paris, so I thought). Instead half of them had nothing going on and the ones that did were so lame it was a waste of a trip. One bridge, for example, literally had a clump of thick silver tinsel dangled on the truss. Classy.<\/p>\n
Generally speaking, I think Boston does a horrible job at illuminating landmarks at night. It would be so spectacular if they could create a program to monumentally light up the Fort Point Channel Bridges, Trinity Church, Boston Public Library, Old North Church, New Old South Church, (hell, any downtown churches). Yeah, these buildings aren’t covered in darkness at night…but they don’t stand out. They aren’t monumental. Now don’t get all green on my ass and talk about the environment. They could use energy efficient LED’s and do it on a timer so they go off by 11:00PM. Throw up a wind turbine somewhere and let that power it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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