James Pearl thinks blogging is dead. He may be right.
It's hard to click into this thread and think that it has been almost 2 months since I posted anything here. I was talking to
@Kirt last night. I'm not under any delusion that my training is anything worth blogging about. But I do wish that I could keep up with my various movements around the country as life & work run me around. I knew it was going to be a crazy fall but it has been a little more like crazy-squared. It'll kinda be this way until Thanksgiving yet. After that we should get a little more toned down. A little.
So I went to
Duke. It was kinda like this:
Take Uber to airport. Get through TSA, start working. Spend 3 days working about 16 hours a day. Fly home. Stop working. I am pretty sure I got on a trainer 3 times at 40 minutes a pop. But it's so long ago, I can't pretend to remember exactly. I have found in the past few weeks that 40 minutes is about a good number for these gym bikes. They are all recumbent now, which sucks. But it is what it is.
Highlight of the Duke trip was a Korean meal I got.
Then I was home for a week.
Then I went to
St. Louis last Sunday and came back Friday night. This trip was much better but way longer. 6 days/5 nights is the long side of what I can deal with. I do like to travel. And this trip saw lots of good food and coffee shops. But after this many days on the road you start to lose touch with reality a bit. By Thursday night you start to ask yourself what "normal" is. You get into a routine of waking up at 5, going to the gym, showering, eating shitty breakfast, then going to work for like 12 hours. These days were long.
One mistake I am realizing: don't eat the free hotel breakfast. It's terrible. I am going to start eating outside the hotel because the quality of the trip suffers from eating shit 5 straight days.
I had some time Thursday so I took the afternoon off and went downtown to see the Arch. It's big. It's a big friggin arch. I was too chicken shit to go up in it so instead I went to Citygarden and found a coffee shop. It was good. Then I found a monster cookie which made my afternoon.
St. Louis is a weird place. So much segregation still there. When I got on the plane to go, it was almost all white people. It seemed odd to me. The racial tension in this city is high apparently. It's oddly got a "Baltimore-feel" in some ways. The city of St. Louis is actually just 360k people. But the surrounding area is a lot bigger so you have a lot more actual people, but with a smaller population you have less money, and less police, and crime is then an issue. Sounds like Baltimore to me. But Baltimore is maybe a bit more of a dump hole.
I could not live in St. Louis.
Kind of foods I ate:
* new American at a place called Taste, best meal of the trip
* Scottish food - I ate haggis. It's not bad at all just tastes like heart attack
* Afghan food - a little disspointing
* Ramen place - almost totally nailed it but they cheaped out on the noodles
* another new American - excellent
I am home this week again, but D is going to
Washington DC for 2 days. Normally I would go just to get out of the house but we have not ONE but TWO go-lives tomorrow. This is idiotic in a sense but F it, we are desperate the get these clients past the go-live date. We then have 2 more the next 2 Mondays.
I also just booked my trip to
Oklahoma City. I'll be there next Sunday through Wednesday, or technically Thursday as I get in after midnight. I could stay another night and fly Thursday but I am not exactly stoked to stay there any longer than I need to.
Maybe
Chicago in December but Chicago is considerably more appealing than these other midwest dumpster fire cities.
I'll try to be better. But James Pearl may be right.