I'm currently blogging from inside a hotel room in Bloomington, Illinois, where I'll be spending the rest of this week attending a Web conference for work.

I took a plane from Seattle to Chicago this morning at 8:45 a.m. pacific time, and then from Chicago to Bloomington, ariving at the hotel at around 5 p.m. central time. The flights weren't too bad (I sat next to a very interesting 70-year old man who chatted about politics and corruption for duration of the Seattle-Chicago flight), and I think I'm less freaked out about flying than I was before today. That's good, because I have to fly home, too.

Between Chicago and Bloomington, the scenery from the sky is exceptionally dull. Flat, boring, nothing. And apparently, the only thing worse than seeing flat, boring, nothing from the 16,000 feet in the sky is landing in the middle of it and having to stay in it for 4 days. Because that's really what this place is. Oh, and lots of corn, apparently.

Hopefully the Web conference is entertaining.