I usually budget 75 minutes when traveling to Cambridge for meetings at the offices of Matrix Partners, one of the venture capital firms backing MarkForged. This morning, I made the trip in half the time because of the Columbus Day holiday which many in Massachusetts observe. With an extra 40 minutes to spare, I took a walk across the Longfellow Bridge and took this photo of the Community Boating docks. I returned to Matrix with 5 minutes to spare and could not understand why everyone else had already gone inside for the meeting. Only later did I realize that I was 5 minutes early for a 9 am meeting that actually started at 8 am.