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Okay, I’ve been really bad about blogging lately, but I wanted to take the time to do a quick entry, for all who might be curious.

So, Lisa’s been in Argentina for almost a month now. I can’t believe it has gone that fast. In fact, it’s gone so fast that it’s already time for me to be down here. I meant to post before I left, but, well, that didn’t happen.

My flight took off yesterday at 3:30 Mountain Daylight Time, just a few minutes late, and I don’t recall exactly when it landed, six-something local time there. I only had about twenty minutes to wait, maybe, before we started boarding at 6:50 – so I guess we landed at like 6:30 then.

The flight to Buenos Aires took off at 7:35 local time there, and it was great. It was a Boeing 777, for reference, and my seatback had my own personal screen. After we got up and meal service started, there were several channels with movies. I watched Robots. I was mildly disappointed. I believe that on the way back, I’ll be catching Coach Carter, which I have higher hopes for. After Robots, I could have waited for one of the other movies to start, but I decided to try and sleep. So much for that. I think I kind of half slept for about four to five hours. I woke up, listened to music, and ate the “breakfast snack” of a croissant and cantalope that we were served.

The flight landed at about 7:45am or so, local time – but my body was still thinking 4:45, so I felt a little tired. However, the excitement kept me going strong. I breezed through customs, which was nice, and then walked out to a guy holding a sign with my name on it. We walked outside, and about all I caught was “here” and “parking garage” – so I stood still, and he bolted off. He drove up a few minutes later, to take me to the hotel.

I had a better grasp of spanish than he did of english, so I was able to tell him “I’m sorry, normally I like to talk, but my spanish is poor” to which he chuckled and replied that it wasn’t a problem. We somehow established that I was here on vacation, and that my wife was here on business, and that I was visiting her – at least, I think we did.

Apparently, in Argentina (or at least here), lanes on the road are roughly recommendations, ones that are rarely followed. We were also speeding like mad, doing like 120km/h. I have no idea how fast that is in miles per hour, and I’m too tired to bother right now, but the speed limit was like 80.

I got to the hotel, and after a few minutes, found the right place to check in. Apparently I had to go to the nicer Park Tower as opposed to the normal Sheraton place. Lisa’s got a nice setup here, let me tell you. I think she’s got some pictures I’ll have to put up. It’s a four-star hotel, which is quite nice.

After that, well, I came down to the business center, and plopped down here. I’ve been IMing via the web, as well as sending an email or two out, so that friends and family know I’ve made it and that I’m alive and well.

This entry is a lot longer than I anticipated, but it’s just flowed out with no stopping. I’m wrapping up here though, because I just got hit by a strong wave of exhaustion, and I think I’m going to go shower and lay down. Maybe I’ll see if I can get an early lunch first. There’s a restaurant right here next to the business center.

Last thoughts: This keyboard is what I’m used to for the most part, but it has keys like ñ and ¿ and ¡ to make entering such common characters easier, as well as a convenient sort of ´key so that I can enter things like é and á easily. It’s rather amusing, although it took me a minute to find the normal apostrophe, as well as how to enter the @ symbol, as it’s on the Q and I have to use this AltGr key. However, I figured it out quite well. Yay for being computer savvy.

Okay, that’s it – I’m off to eat and/or sleep. Feel free to comment and/or write emails, but know that I may be quite slow until I’m back in town on Tuesday. I’ll probably update this a time or two while I’m here, since Lisa has to work.