I managed to get up early enough to walk to the Wheaton subway station to begin my trek to Reagan Airport and ultimately Boston. To my delight, I saw that Zipcar is now deployed in our town! Now that's reason enough to get an account.

Since I was making good time, I ended up skipping the Metro and hopping on a taxi which allowed me to get to the airport to board an earlier US Air Shuttle flight. Now I'll be able to stop into the MIT Press Bookstore and do a little extra schmoozing at the lab before our tour and meetings.

The meetings today are for my colleagues who are planning this coming September's convention in Boston and our multi-city 50th anniversary celebrations throughout 2008. We will be talking about how we'll showcase the work of the Media Lab at these events.

- mike lee - composing this post in flight