The Dreary O
Oh God! That has been on my mind the last couple days already. And it wasn't the Oh God! feeling when you're messing up your bed with a partner in crime kind. It was the bad kind.
Maybe I jinxed myself when I blogged in the middle of Wednesday with that Peanut Butter Jelly Time thing, because it was all down hill after lunch. I ended up staying at work till 01:30 Thursday morning! To make it all the more sweeter, I got locked out of the building when I went to get dinner! I waited for a chill biting 15 minutes before someone left work and let me in. My mind was going nuts, because my laptop, cell phone and everything was inside!
After I finished my work in the wee hours of the morning, I walked back to my hotel a few blocks away. Goodness gracious, great balls of hellfire! The kind of sketchy people just hanging around in the middle of downtown Cleveland was far removed from the kind I was used to seeing at 19:00, the time I usually end my work day at. They were more aggressive! It was so bad that despite being an adult athlete, I actually decided to put away my iPod and headphones, because I wanted to make sure I could hear somebody sneaking up on me. Of course by the time I got back to my hotel, my heart was racing and I couldn't fall asleep.
On top of that, I had to teach a class to my client for the knowledge or skills transfer at 09:00 in the morning. And guess what. I slept through the two wake-up calls, the alarm clock on the nightstand, and my cell phone. The only thing that stirred me from my sleep? The housekeeping lady walking in on me at 10:45!
I felt really bad for her, because it was cold overnight and I was still shivering when I returned to my room, so I bumped up the thermostat to 76 degrees. Apparently it got really hot after I fell asleep, because the housekeeping lady walked into a glorious view of my morning glory as I had tossed my blankets aside.
Oops!
And of course, my class ended starting way late, which in turn made me almost miss my flight. To make matters worse, my flight was delayed due to the downpour of rain in Cleveland and the snowstorm in Chicago.
As shitty as Thursday turned out to be, it was not as bad as my friend's, though. One of my former roommates from KC was flying into Chicago that evening for the weekend, and we were supposed to hang out and meet up with a bunch of my Chicago friends over beer. Although Southwest Airlines' website indicated that his flight was still on time, it kept on getting delayed. Why? The same physical plane was stuck in Oklahoma City, which was supposed to head to KC then Chicago. {Yet another reason why I dislike OKC.}
So my friend got on the standby list for the next two flights out of KC. Didn't make the first one, but he got onto the second one. Arrival time? 22:30. We were two hungry mothereffers by then! But in retrospect, it was all good, because when I checked this morning, that same physical plane never left Oklahoma City, and my friend's original KC to Chicago flight was cancelled!!! Damn! He dodged a big one there.
After dinner and hanging out while catching up on the goings on in our lives the last few months, I thought surely things will get better.
Nosireebob! At least not yet.
I found out that I got assigned to a project in Cleveland starting this coming Monday. Not in Ohio, but Cleveland, Minnesota. What?!? A quick google revealed that as of the 2000 census, the population was pegged at 673. And that's not a denomination for thousands or millions. Just plain 673 people, period. Plus 20 dogs and quite possibly 15 cats. Whoopdidoo! {No offense to the Clevelanders in MN, but quite simply, I'm a city boy. Trust me, it's me, not you.}
And to finish it all off, I got a call today from the freight company telling me that due to the overnight snowstorm, they wouldn't be able to delivery my new television set till next Monday, which I will be conveniently in Cleveland, Minnesota. Damn!
So what is John to do? Remedy the whole situation with a few glasses of beer over an extended late lunch! Ah... I felt better. But I think I should get plowed tonight to fully feel much better though. =)
Maybe I jinxed myself when I blogged in the middle of Wednesday with that Peanut Butter Jelly Time thing, because it was all down hill after lunch. I ended up staying at work till 01:30 Thursday morning! To make it all the more sweeter, I got locked out of the building when I went to get dinner! I waited for a chill biting 15 minutes before someone left work and let me in. My mind was going nuts, because my laptop, cell phone and everything was inside!
After I finished my work in the wee hours of the morning, I walked back to my hotel a few blocks away. Goodness gracious, great balls of hellfire! The kind of sketchy people just hanging around in the middle of downtown Cleveland was far removed from the kind I was used to seeing at 19:00, the time I usually end my work day at. They were more aggressive! It was so bad that despite being an adult athlete, I actually decided to put away my iPod and headphones, because I wanted to make sure I could hear somebody sneaking up on me. Of course by the time I got back to my hotel, my heart was racing and I couldn't fall asleep.
On top of that, I had to teach a class to my client for the knowledge or skills transfer at 09:00 in the morning. And guess what. I slept through the two wake-up calls, the alarm clock on the nightstand, and my cell phone. The only thing that stirred me from my sleep? The housekeeping lady walking in on me at 10:45!
I felt really bad for her, because it was cold overnight and I was still shivering when I returned to my room, so I bumped up the thermostat to 76 degrees. Apparently it got really hot after I fell asleep, because the housekeeping lady walked into a glorious view of my morning glory as I had tossed my blankets aside.
Oops!
And of course, my class ended starting way late, which in turn made me almost miss my flight. To make matters worse, my flight was delayed due to the downpour of rain in Cleveland and the snowstorm in Chicago.
As shitty as Thursday turned out to be, it was not as bad as my friend's, though. One of my former roommates from KC was flying into Chicago that evening for the weekend, and we were supposed to hang out and meet up with a bunch of my Chicago friends over beer. Although Southwest Airlines' website indicated that his flight was still on time, it kept on getting delayed. Why? The same physical plane was stuck in Oklahoma City, which was supposed to head to KC then Chicago. {Yet another reason why I dislike OKC.}
So my friend got on the standby list for the next two flights out of KC. Didn't make the first one, but he got onto the second one. Arrival time? 22:30. We were two hungry mothereffers by then! But in retrospect, it was all good, because when I checked this morning, that same physical plane never left Oklahoma City, and my friend's original KC to Chicago flight was cancelled!!! Damn! He dodged a big one there.
After dinner and hanging out while catching up on the goings on in our lives the last few months, I thought surely things will get better.
Nosireebob! At least not yet.
I found out that I got assigned to a project in Cleveland starting this coming Monday. Not in Ohio, but Cleveland, Minnesota. What?!? A quick google revealed that as of the 2000 census, the population was pegged at 673. And that's not a denomination for thousands or millions. Just plain 673 people, period. Plus 20 dogs and quite possibly 15 cats. Whoopdidoo! {No offense to the Clevelanders in MN, but quite simply, I'm a city boy. Trust me, it's me, not you.}
And to finish it all off, I got a call today from the freight company telling me that due to the overnight snowstorm, they wouldn't be able to delivery my new television set till next Monday, which I will be conveniently in Cleveland, Minnesota. Damn!
So what is John to do? Remedy the whole situation with a few glasses of beer over an extended late lunch! Ah... I felt better. But I think I should get plowed tonight to fully feel much better though. =)
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