So, today begins the first of three days of ‘advanced’ ColdFusion training (the web application development platform; I won’t be carrying out any nuclear reactions at room temperature) at Cornell, for which I have to drive an hour and a half (each way). Ordinarily, I’d enjoy going down to Ithaca, since it’s quite a beautiful area (‘Ithaca is gorges’ as the bumper stickers say), but this means I have to leave the house by 6:30 AM for the next three days, only to go and sit for eight hours in a classroom (give or take; I guess we get an hour for lunch, so I can get up and then go sit someplace else for a while) and see if they can teach me more formally than I’ve managed to figure out on my own (which I certainly hope is the case).

Hopefully I can at least find a podcast of Maron yesterday to listen to on the way.