Coming to you from Atlanta…
I’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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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’…
Anonymous
February 6, 2007
oh yeah… if if hit anything that is cool, ill post back here… I am staying in the downtown area, close to olympic park, that’s where the cnn headquarters are at, so you can tour their studios, right next door is Phillips Arena, where the Hawks and the Thrashers play (I think) and I heard the Georgia Aquarium is pretty cool. Oh yeah… Atlanta underground is must see from what the locals tell me. I’ll porbably check it out, so I’ll let you know.
J in Ric
February 6, 2007
lol to the first part!! you are really doing work, you swear!! definitely know where you are coming from about flying on airplanes. dude, you are lucky to get a break from richmond although it is hard to be away from your family. since you are there with no choice, take it ALL in and have a blast killa!
Anonymous
February 6, 2007
lol to the first part!! you are really doing work, you swear!! definitely know where you are coming from about flying on airplanes – a bit morbid, but hey it’s human. dude, you are lucky to get a break from richmond although it is hard to be away from your family. since you are there with no choice, take it ALL in and have a blast killa!
Anonymous
February 6, 2007
as a former atl resident, i can tell you to avoid Underground ATL. Not much to see there. I recommend staying in Midtown and taking Marta in. there are much more places to go at night in midtown v/s downtown. GA Aquar is great and well worth it. Check around the fox theater for places to eat and stay.
Anonymous
February 7, 2007
I freak out when I fly too, like down in the floor freak out. I flew to Chicago a couple of weeks ago and I got so freaked out by the turbulence that I completely stiffened up my body and got my shoe stuck under the seat in front of me. The more I panicked, the more it got stuck until I ended up yanking it out, ripping open the only pair of shoes I brought with me to the snowiest city in the friggin US. I hope that you’re a little better about planes than I am.
Chris
February 8, 2007
I am the same way as you when I fly. It’s a fear I haven’t always had, but the past year or so I’ve become more aware of my mortality and now I freak when I have to fly.
I hope you have a good business trip!!
Lindsey
February 8, 2007
Chris: I really work myself up when I fly. I was on a flight once that I was so freaked out that some random lady pulled out one of those back massagers and started speak softly in soft reassuring words. She was a mom type, you know, but I swear that nothing she said or did helped me get my head in a good place. I’ve gotten a little better…but will suggest driving if it is at all possible.
Lindsey: I am soooo in that stage of my life. I’m naturally a little morbid, but my mortality weighs on me sometimes. Not so much because I’m afraid to die, but mostly I’m afraid not growing old with my wife and watching my kids grow up. The first time I flew after Josiah was born, I literally had to shove my face into a pillow so people wouldn’t see me tear up. I really didn’t need people to think that I was going to freak out on the flight, you know?
J in Ric
February 8, 2007