Coming to you from Atlanta...
Tuesday, February 06, 2007I'll be in Atlanta this week kids, doing some shopping, going out to dinners, and maybe catching a pro sporting event or two. No...I'm not on vacation, I'm working. Really.Hard. I swear.
I'm spending this week at our industry's annual convention, talking to all of our vendors and buying lots of stuff for our business. It really is a lot of hard work, but the upside is that our vendors love to take take us out for dinner and drinks at the end of the day. That's the good part, the bad part is that I have to be here in the first place. I usually bitch and moan about having to go on this trip, but there is a small little part inside of me that loves the schmoozing that goes on.
It didn't help that I was totally unprepared for this trip, but it really didn't help that my little guy Josiah had a bit of hard time when it finally hit him that I would be gone for the whole week. Nothing makes it harder to go on a trip that you really don't want to go on than your little guy hanging on to you and *really* not wanting you to go. Granted, it was pretty early in the morning when I was getting ready to go, so I'm sure he was pretty tired. But I could see in his little eyes how much he just wanted me to stay there with him. *Sigh*
My boss and I decided to drive down instead of flying, which really works out for me, because not only do I have a slight weirdness about flying, I also get hyper-emotional when I fly. I start thinking of all the bad things that can happen, and eventually the only thought that is running through my head is that I won't see my family again... Cheery huh?
But on to better things... our week down here started out pretty good. We got tickets to the Hawks-Lakers game. Which was pretty random, because we were talking about maybe trying to go see the game and not five minutes later a scalper walks by with tickets for $25.00 a piece. What a bargain, I said. Watching Kobe Bryant play was maddening, mainly because I can't stand the guy, but I can't help but be impressed about his skills. After the game we headed to McCormick & Schmick's for a pretty awesome dinner.
So eventually we will work pretty hard (even though to the wife it sounds like all I do out here is play), but mainly I want this week to fly by so I can get home back to my family and to the neighborhood that I love.
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2:34 PM
this will be a random one, but can you point out some good places to check out in the atl? going for a similar trip and have no idea where to stay or where i need to be neighborhood-wise to take in some good 'cool-hunting'...