I'm back

I should be cleaning the house and paying the bills and weeding the garden. But travel always has this overwhelming effect on me. I'm tired, and I just want to let my brain go wherever it wants to go for a few hours. My mental health is too important, the house, the bills and the garden can wait. So I'm here in my PJ's with a cup of tea and my brain went to blogging. Probably because of the extended absence due to the lack of internet. I did compose a post yesterday about a particularly sexist comment made to me in a meeting, but I didn't finish and it didn't get posted. In retrospect it's kind of negative, and while I do think it's important for some people to understand, I don't feel like being negative today. Maybe I'll make it cheerier and post it another day.

So, my trip to Minneapolis. Was good. Here's my thoughts.

- It was a surprisingly lovely city.

-They like live music and British and Irish pubs. I enjoyed both.

- The city seems to have an aversion to free internet, none at the hotel, none at the convention center and none in the airport. I think this is a cultural thing because this is the first trip I've been on that I've experienced a situation where I could not get online at a least one of the above mentioned locations. (It should be noted that I did find a Panera Bread with free internet and it was like heaven, but my laptop chose to have some type of hiccup at that particular moment and refused to boot properly.)

- The world headquarters of Target is there. It's a big building.

- Auto flush toilets do not save water if they flush four times for every single use.

- Despite a very busy meeting schedule I did find a little time to make a pilgrimage:

now if I can just get that theme song out of my head...