Concertino.....and I'm not going......
Jul. 15th, 2003 09:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poltr1Some of my LJ friends are heading off to Concertino, the Northeast filk convention. This year, it will be held in Boston, MA. And once again, I'll be staying home. The family budget and my wife's vacation schedule -- or lack thereof -- have dictated that we're not going there (or anywhere) this summer. About the only vacation we'll get to do this year as a family would be to take a weekend trip (within a 4-hour-drive radius of Dayton).
The thought of driving to Boston.....and driving in Boston......scares me. I've heard so many horror stories about Boston roads, Boston drivers, the high cost of everything, the crowdedness of big cities, and the constant Rush!Rush!Rush! of city folk that going there sounds like an adventure in Hell than Paradise. That's what I thought when I was first looking for full-time work in 1988, and I still think that today.
One of these years, I know I'd be going there. My wife wants to visit Salem, and all the history surrounding that place. (Did you know former GE CEO Jack Welch was originally from there?) I have high school friends, fraternity brothers, an other folks I know that live and work in the Boston area. One of them is the webmaster for M-Power, a mental health advocacy organization. (Aside to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
maedbh7: Check them out!) Another is an assistant professor at the Berklee College of Music. I'd like to go and visit them, but it won't happen this year.
BTW, whose bright idea was it to schedule Concertino the same weekend as the Dayton Air Show? Grr! Argh!
The thought of driving to Boston.....and driving in Boston......scares me. I've heard so many horror stories about Boston roads, Boston drivers, the high cost of everything, the crowdedness of big cities, and the constant Rush!Rush!Rush! of city folk that going there sounds like an adventure in Hell than Paradise. That's what I thought when I was first looking for full-time work in 1988, and I still think that today.
One of these years, I know I'd be going there. My wife wants to visit Salem, and all the history surrounding that place. (Did you know former GE CEO Jack Welch was originally from there?) I have high school friends, fraternity brothers, an other folks I know that live and work in the Boston area. One of them is the webmaster for M-Power, a mental health advocacy organization. (Aside to
maedbh7: Check them out!) Another is an assistant professor at the Berklee College of Music. I'd like to go and visit them, but it won't happen this year.BTW, whose bright idea was it to schedule Concertino the same weekend as the Dayton Air Show? Grr! Argh!
