Brain dump
Well, I guess that makes it Monday morning back home, so I thought I’d whip up a quick blog entry for ma homies back home. Things here are good, although the constant nosebleeds due to the incredible dryness of the air are quickly tiring. It’s snowing, as well, so there hasn’t been much incentive to go outside of late.
Let’s see - when we last spoke, I was about to go shopping and have breakfast with Lisa. We met her at her house, and picked up a heap of boxes that had arrived at her house - most of which were Mum’s stupid dolls - and then headed to this “Waffle and Omelette House” which serves, you guessed it, waffles and omelettes, pretty much 24/7 from what I gather. Woo had an spanish omelette which would make you full just looking at it, Lisa had a waffle, and I had biscuits and gravy, which was absolutely great. We then hit up a supermarket, and I bought a sim card for my phone, so I wouldn’t be woken up by my mobile ringing throughout the night 
I also redirected my 1800 number in the States to my new mobile, so that works pretty well.
Business has been quite good since I got here actually … I may do a record month this month and next. Being in the right time-zone helps quite a bit.
Thursday night I had to fly to Ohio for a meeting with clients there, which was a good flight in business class, but it was raining and unpleasant when I arrived after 1am Friday. I had to wake the manager at the hotel in which I was saying to check me in after hours. I slept till about 8am, and then called the client and arranged a 10am meeting. Meeting went well … very well … and then said, at about 11:30, “so … is 11.30am too early for lunch for you guys?”
IT guys never pass up a free meal, so we hit a nice place in Columbus called The Cheesecake Factory, which was packed with about 200 people even at 11:30am. I flew back to Salt Lake via Atlanta, departing Columbus at 2pm, and arriving back at the hotel, after several late flights, at about 9pm. It was raining in SLC, and the drive home was difficult.
Woo greeted me at the door, by spraying me convincingly with silly string. A random end to a very boring day.
Saturday, Woo and I set up the stand at Brainshare, it looks great. We hung the banners with fishing line, and stuck another banner around a table with carpet tape - basically heavy-duty double-sided tape, from what I gather. I’ll post a picture when I remember. I called Lisa, who’d just finished work, and we arranged to meet at her place so I could collect more boxes. Woo and I stopped for lunch at Apollo burger, and enjoyed their delicious “greek style” burgers, and drinks the size of a bucket.
At Lisa’s place, the long-awaited boxes were the custom hawaiian shirts - they’re both too big, but look pretty good - and the beach balls, which are smaller than I expected, but still way awesome. Oh, and more dolls. Woo and I took photos of the ones received so far, and emailed them to mum, so she could hopefully keep track of which ones she was still yet to receive. I think we have about 9/10 so far. :rolleyes:
It started snowing pretty heavily Saturday night, so I had an early night. Today (Sunday) we’re off to brunch with Lisa’s friends at Hopper’s Grill, and then the show starts at the Salt Palace at 2pm, till 6pm or so. There’s a welcome function afterwards, but it’s usually pretty lame, so we’ll see how it goes.