Travel

So Evan gave me the 411 on this thai place in china town called pongsri, so i went to check it out. Walked up broadway in the light rain, went and got some bangin Drunken Noodles and eggrolls.

Saw this on the way into the thai place. Guess it's my reserved parking spot for the Triumph, eh? Talked to Matt about his oil change on his CBR. Turns out his bike already had a K&N airfilter in it, which means he returned his new one. He's also got his interest piqued in an electric vest, which i myself am trying to secure.

After dinner i rolled over to little italy and snagged some canoli. while i am not blown away with this town, i did like that i could go have amazing thai food, then walk 3 blocks north and get an authentic canoli.

The walk back was really wet. my pants n shoes are soaked, but it was worth it. now for some tv and a nap. i actually have class tomorrow

so i had a hard time sleeping last nite... didn't get much rest. was in a big rush to get to class today in a city i've never been in, without an exact address for the classroom i was teaching in. i leave in a hurry down the stairs, and it's pissing rain. (makes a mental note to add an umbrella to the utility belt i carry on the road) So i walk in the rain like 10 blocks, find the building that has the classroom facility, and start wandering around looking for a classroom marked "wise". A nice man sees me wandering with that lost puppy look and asks to help. I tell him i'm there to teach the wise class, and he was like "oh just checking on things?". i give him a puzzled look, and he explains that my class starts tomorrow.

So yeah, totally flew to NYC a day too early. Wandered around Wall St for a little on the way back to the hotel, and dropped off some expense reports to fedex. now im ready to crawl back into bed cuz it's raining to hard to want to go be a tourist.

So i just checked into my hotel in NYC. cozy. Sitting in the SLC airport i got a call from Jules saying that dave was in a wreck on his board today at Park City and broke both his legs. don't have a complete story yet, but he called during my cabride to tell me he's alive. I'm really happy he wasn't hurt irrepairably.

Crystal and Brooke are prolly living it up in Vegas. Should be fun. wish i was with em.

we'll see what the big apple has in store for me.

So the last 3 days of this week i don't actually have class. I'm just chillin in the office, stealing apps from the network, abusing the 'net and doin a lil bonding with the other consultants. Said goodbye to my boss last nite. Don't know when i'm going to see him next. Really weird feeling. He says he'll be in Lindon every other month, so we'll do dinner or something.

Went to Bikram Yoga with Mary for the first time. Mike, our instructor, was awesome. He's gonna be opening his own studio shortly.Bikram uses a HOT room (110 degrees), but after 10 minutes i was working to hard to realize it was 110 degrees in there. I think im gonna have to check out a couple more studios around the nation.

Went for sushi at O'sushi after with Mary. great food, and i was starving by the time we got there. She left to get Evan from the airport, and i went to the hotel to crash.

Got up late (on purpose) today and came into work to tinker with my laptop, etc. just about ready to pack it up and head back to the hotel and chill for a bit. then 1 more day of office fun, and then i can head back to slc for the weekend to catch the Banf Mtn Film Festival, and hopefully get some riding in.

So i drove down to Cleveland for the weekend. On the way down i helped dave sort out his hosting problems with Cleetus, getting him migrated to Moose Hosting. I pulled over on the Ohio Turnpike and created a Virtual Host on my laptop with my cell phone cable in the car. Power geek, baby!

Had some drinks with jason and chris skaryd, and some of chris' wife's friends. Got drunk. THOUGHT i got into some trouble, so i left. Turns out it had very little to do with me but i just assumed i was the cause.

Spent some time with the fam, ate some home cooked food. Went out with Ruthie for coffee and talked about how weird it is to be growing up so quickly in recent months. She's engaged for fuck's sake. Crazy.

Went out for a couple drinks with my dad and we talked about Wise, retirement, home ownership and a bunch of other random stuff. We agreed on most of it besides home ownership, but i think he really assumes Wise is going to move me someplace so he doesn't think i should be tied to a home. PSH. In my current reading i wanna be tied to like 6 homes if i can help it, cuz then i don't have to worry about working

Aaron just walked into class and asked if anyone was observing Lent, because they would have ordered them special lunch. Heh, i didn't even know it was Lent go go gadget christian education, eh?

Now back to the Wise Install System class already in progress