Tomorrow is my Day in Boston trip, a sort of mini-vacation to clear my head and reorient myself. The weather is supposed to be kind of rotten, but forewarned is forearmed!

The Plan

1. Drive in around 745AMi with the rest of rush-hour traffic, which will get me to Alewife station right around 8:45-9ish, which is early enough to grab some of the last few spaces on the roof. That gives me a half an hour to buy my MBTA Day Pass ($7.50) and head over to Central Square for my first meeting with a reader. Exciting!

2. Then it’s off to Harvard Square to kick around, maybe meet a few people I know in the area, and browse some stores. I’ve got a lunch meeting at 1130ish to I guess 1ish, it’s one of those play-it-by-ear things. Visits planned: stationery store (there aren’t any good ones where I live), chocolate store (mmm), maybe a museum.

3. After lunch, I’m planning on heading toward the Financial District in downtown Boston . I plan to hop on-and-off the various T-stops to see what’s there; this is something I haven’t tried before, having never done the tourist thing in Boston before. I’m planning on visiting the new offices of a company I used to work at and say hi, which should be OK since I know the guy who runs the place.

4. Then it’s off to Brookline, so I can attend the Boston Flash Platform Users Group meeting; the lecture is by a designer who has to work with engineers, so I’m interested in hearing another person’s perspective on it. That’s at 7PM. Before that, I’m going to meet the friend of a friend somewhere around there and say “hi”.

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p>It’s not much of a plan, but that’s by design. I plan to be as open as possible to experience and see what happens. I’m not even going to bring a computer with me, just my backpack with an umbrella in it and maybe some business cards. I’m thinking of making a 4″x6″ business card for the heck of it, just to see how that goes over :-)

If there’s anyone else out there who wants to plan a random collision somewhere along my itinerary, feel free to shoot me an email :-)