Stupid Wine Cube from Target

Hello all....

So, I'm still enjoying the time I have in Houston. Its nice to sleep in my own bed for more than a couple nights at a time. I found out today that it will be less nights than previously antipated. I was told today that I will head to Denver, CO in two weeks. I'll spend 1 week there helping out with the project that I worked on in KY. I'm happy to be going back to that project (and certainly looking forward to Denver), but I'm a little sad that I won't be going to Kentucky for the week. After that, I'm off to Lubbock, TX for a week, then back to NOLA....Geaux Saints!

But for now, I will content myself with the fact that I've just completed Defensive Driving (Yay!) and sign off to go to bed (I am a little drunk after all).

Damn. I'm a lush, aren't I?

It's like a juice box....

Ok....I tried to post this last night, but thanks to a spotty internet connection, wasn't able to.

wow....the cube of wine that you can buy at Target is pretty strong....I bought the small cube, which is about 4 smallish juice boxes of wine. wow. man. i'm drunk. this is pathetic.

Anyway. I took the day off today. I had a doctors appointment scheduled for this morning and the second court date for my speeding ticket a while back. I woke up this morning at the usual time (645) panicking....thinking I had to go to work. Shortly thereafter, I realized two things....1) no work today, 2)I had a migrane headache. But, I got my ass up to get ready for my early doctors appointment. I was about half way ready, dealing with the migrane, when I got a call from the doctor's office telling me that my doctor had fallen ill....After a quick reschedule, I climbe back into bed and napped until the headache went away. Yay!

I managed to get up around 930ish, finished getting dressed and drove to Blockbuster to pick up my defensive driving DVD...spent the next 4 hours going through about 1/2 of it. I have to say, while I don't mind taking it (I did the crime, after all), its a lot of information to absorb. The ridiculousness of the animated course is tolerable...but only because when the animated reporter character does a news story on weather, the news ticker in the window is highly amusing. About halfway through the video, the "person" writing the "news scroll" starts saying things like "fog isn't caused by secondhand smoke and exhaust fumes, but is really caused by the steam coming out of the ears of mothers" and "the fog is only hiding the ninjas that are coming to eat us". The "person" soon after gets fired only to be replaced by a person who changes the "news ticker" into a scrolling menu of fast food items. It was cracking my ass up.

I rounded out the day with my court date. The judge dismissed all of the violations that I had "committed". I say "committed" because we all know they were ridiculous. I managed to get a $500 ticket reduced to the price of court fines for the speeding and the cost of renting my defensive driving course! Yay!

Yeahhh...I'm too drunk to continue to try and type.

Deep in the Heart of Texas.....

Hello all….I have been absolutely awful at updating this thing since I started this job almost 10 months ago. I have been traveling 100% for the last 9 months (I have only spent 1 full week here during that time period) and I’m afraid that with staying that busy, nothing ever really exciting happens. I guess I could share the little stories….like the time I walked into the women’s restroom at IAH and found a small Korean man (or maybe a small, very hairy, Korean woman) standing at the counter shaving. To give him credit, it was early in the morning and I myself walked out of the restroom just to make sure I was in the right one.

I could also give a review of almost every Marriott hotel in NOLA (Marriott level & better…no courtyard’s for me.).

I could share my stories from the romp down Bourbon street on Friday night with 6 guys and a girl (all from New York/New Jersey)….I was only supposed to meet them for a drink, but somehow, 4am came way too quickly. It was a pretty rough evening…..10+ shots of whatever coupled with about 6 beers (one for each bar we went in to)…and yes, that was just my take (really, I think Richard’s on to something with this “dancing through the drunkness thing). Eventually, I made it back to my hotel….tracked down a Marriott employee to re-magnitize my dead key card and stumbled into bed…..i got in about 1 ½ hours of sleep before I had to get up and head to the airport to catch my 8am flight. Man…..I won’t tell you how good (read: ass-awful) I felt that morning.

Anyway, that’s about it for now. I’m finally back in Houston for a few weeks (4 in total, I believe). After that, I’ll spend a week in Lubbock, TX and then head back to NOLA.

Whoo hooo.

Have you heard

of skyauction.com? If we can figure out around what time we want to go on this next trip, we might be able to see what kind of deal we can get here.

Chi-town

Chicago was fantastic! I had a lot of fun and I'm so glad that I was able to spend time with everyone. Pictures can be found here.

And the suggestions for next year are:

1. Vegas

That's all I've got. Any other suggestions?