I flew up to Burlington VT for my first all-hands meeting with my new employer, Fletcher/CSI.  I’d never been up here before, despite having siblings who attend(ed) the University of Vermont (I know, shame on me) and I have to say I should have made it here a lot sooner.  We had meetings all day yesterday and today, and my only glimpse of the town was when we had a company dinner at Sweetwaters downtown, but even based on that limited experience I can tell you I very much look forward to returning.  This is truly a beautiful place, and it’s a travesty that I never visited my brother or sisters while they were in school here.  Actually I have one sister still in school so hopefully she’ll be seeing me here a few times before she graduates.

Unfortunately on this trip I didn’t have any free time to do any visiting, but I’ll make sure to schedule extra time to visit when I return.  For now I’m sitting at my gate at the airport (BTV) and it looks like my flight to LaGuardia will be delayed 1 1/2 hours, which ought to make trying to get my connector to GSO a little interesting.  I just checked that flight on FlightStats and it’s delayed too, so hopefully I’ll be okay.

I know all this because BTV has free wi-fi and their landing page when you log in is a nice mix of local weather and updated flight status for all upcoming flights.  Since the flight status section is a feed from FlightStats it’s easy to connect through the site to check the status of connector flights.  Very cool, and I wish GSO would offer the same.