Friday, January 22, 2010

I figured out I can make my own videos....get ready party people....

I am honestly trying to keep up with this blog (I swear)but its kinda hard. So last time I talked to you I was in Cleveland I believe.....or maybe it was Pittsburgh. Either way, not a lot has happened (watch the video). I put my seminar on in Cleveland and we stayed at a new hotel, a Crowne Plaza. It was nice and I liked it. The staff was nice and full of cute girls, got a free breakfast, had a concierge room where stuffed my pockets full of nutri-grain bars, pretzels and diet cokes and got $10.00 off for dinner at the restaurant. Needless to say, I was impressed and happy. There was a Panera on one side of the hotel and a Chipotle on the other (solid), and my speaker was a good guy. He traveled everywhere in europe and gave me great ideas on some trips I wanna do in the future. One of them is to spend a couple days in Paris, take the Chunnel (tunnel under the channel i believe... if you didn't know that before, just go home) to London on the train and stay there a few days. Expensive as balls, but would be well worth it. Two absolutely amazing cities. For lunch I got Chipotle and it was damn good....not much else to say.....
The video is a good representation of what I do for half my flights. I sit, I wait (if they don't have a boardroom where I can get some snacks and a drink or six), and possibly get something to eat. Airports are horrible for food, unless it's a major hub, like Minneapolis/St. Paul For NWA, for an airline. I guess it's not a place a person specifically goes to eat, so I shouldn't expect that much but it doesn't help the fact that I like to eat healthy and don't want a small snickers from a newsstand or bar food that will make me feel like shit for the rest of the night. Anyways.....
I traveled to Albany, NY, got a Chrysler 300 from National, and drove to the Comfort Inn n Suites. This hotel was recently built (positive), had a free breakfast (positive), and had a good workout room (positive). I worked out, watched King of the Hill (a nightly thing to do) and fell asleep. I woke up in the morning, went down to my site and NONE of my seminar was setup. I usually walk into my seminar room with everything set up and put together my electronics, my table, meet the staff, double check with the onsite coordinator and my speaker and then get a break to do paperwork for an hour or two. Not this time. Somebody fucked up. It was an empty room and I looked everywhere for somebody to help, but nobody was around, so I set it up myself. 72 seats, 24 tables, 3 large tables, 3 buffett tables, and a 8 foot screen for the slide show. My working at the Country Club had payed off. This whole time I was just grabbing stuff back in the kitchen/back hallway and setting it up. I owned that fucking hotel for an hour that day, and the staff for the rest of the day treated me like a god. Everything went fine for the rest of the day and last night Cindy (my speaker) and I went into downtown Boston into the Northside where the Italian District is and went to an amazing Italian restaurant. We also went to Bell in Hand, the second oldest bar in the U.S..... est. 1795 I believe. Right after that we walked through the Holocaust Memorial just across the street from the old bar which I have been to before but it is something I definitely wanted to see again. Boston is truly a great city and I can't wait to come back. In fact, I just got my schedule for March and I come back here like 4 times in the next 2 months so hopefully I can familiarize myself with the city some more.
Right now I am in the Hilton Garden Inn in Waltham, MA (10 miles outside Boston and they mentioned Waltham last night on 30 Rock and I felt so god damn special) and love it. Free breakfast, cookies when you check-in, hot chick at the counter, and comfortable beds. Holla back HGI. The leftovers from last nights pesto linguine I had in downtown is chilling in the fridge in my room, and Im gonna inhale that shit as soon as lunch hits. Hope all is well wherever you may be. Deuces from Waltham, MA suckas....

******SIDE NOTE******
For those of you that noticed that James Blunt is blazing in the background of my video, that was the terminal. I know, sitting in an empty terminal while blasting James Blunt from my computer and dancing would seem like something I would do, I didnt do it unfrotunately. Sorry to disappoint.
******SIDE NOTE ENDED******

1 comment:

downwitda said...

Get that video link fixed (unless it's just my computer not cooperating).