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My body is better today. I have started the software migration from Pervasive database to Microsoft SQL server. So now it is just wait. A chance to sit, a chance to rest. The migration has been running for about 30 to 40 minutes and I would guess it's about two thirds done. While I'm waiting, I caught up on the calls I needed to return and now I'm catching up on my Blogging. I'm currently typing this on my Palm Pilot using the collapsible keyboard I bought. It's not the perfect keyboard, but is types surprisingly well. The only problem is the space bar. It needs something on top of it to make it easier to hit.
This client is situated on the 15th, 51st and 53rd floors of the One Liberty Plaza building in downtown Philadelphia. As I'm typing this, I'm looking out the 53rd floor window at Philadelphia laid out before me. My window faces northwest. I can easily see the Philadelphia Art Museum. Although there are some high cirrus clouds, it is pretty bright outside and I'm about the highest point in Philly right now. I'm using a vacant office in which the whole wall is windows and, since I'm very near the top, they slant inward near the ceiling.
As I as riding up the elevator this morning, I was grateful to the designers that they chose NOT to put clear floors in the elevators. I don't think I'd want to look down 53 floors through the elevator floor. Yuck!
There is a building of roughly equal height about a block away. I look at it and think about the people that put the finishing touches on the top of it. The thought of someone crawling around the top of these buildings, working on them, makes my stomach flip. I would not say I have an uncommon fear of heights. But I would say I have a practical respect for them.
I find it interesting. Here I am on the 53rd floor and my car is parked four levels UNDERNEATH the building. I guess this it the greatest vertical distance from my car aside from flying in an airplane - 57 floors.
Posted by Ted at December 16, 2003 11:10 AM