Sheesh

It's not "orientated", it's "oriented". As in, "They're very team-orientated."

I keep hearing people use "orientated" in that sense. Please stop. You're wrong. I beg of you. STOP.

Noo Yawk, Noo Yawk! Still...

Tomorrow night I finally get home. Here's a brief synopsis, since I promised I would blog about being here and to be honest, I just want to go home.

Here's my room. Where I've basically been sequestered for a week.



Eric Miranda. Awesome dude.Ming Dynasty, Eric's band, is so close to getting their LP finished. I swear to God, I can taste it.

Josh's wife and little girl are sick (or were over the weekend) so I couldn't visit. Too bad.

I painted for the first time in a couple of years. Much to Libs' chagrin, it wasn't for her.



My palms get sweaty typing on my laptop because the metal is slippy and hot.

Times Square is so lame even someone like me, visiting the city, hates it.

Fontana's is a cool bar in the middle of Chinatown.

Connelly's and The Perfect Pint are two bars located next to each other, are owned by the same people, so are not particularly competing. It's like a huge lie. I feel cheated. However, the bartender DID give me a free scotch.

I gave myself a heel blister by walking approximately 50 blocks round trip. Ghey. So now I basically limp around like a goof.

Geoff Lillemon is capable of getting anyone, ANYONE, to do pretty much anything at any time. Just witness the majesty of the pineapple.

I'm a confirmed speaker at FiTC TO. My presentation is called "OOP for the OOPless". I'm very very excited. I haven't spoken since, ah heck, DesignFest a few years ago. Mostly I've been hanging out at events, looking like a tremendous hanger on.

It's hard to work on a laptop in a hotel room.

My new favourite quote. "I'm gonna punch that Bleeker kid in the weiner next time I see him" - Mac, Juno's father. Juno, released 2007.

Noo Yawk, Noo Yawk!

I got to New York on Friday for a week-long stay visiting the Organic office here. It was/is a dual purpose visit for a little training and packing in a crapload of meetings.

However, thanks to not even bothering to check a calendar before booking this trip, I wasn't aware that Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. day. The office is closed Monday. I feel so stupid.

I'm trying to make the best of it, but man, I seriously wish I wasn't here right now.

On the plus side, I am staying in a fairly cool hotel called Night.

And I actually went to Brooklyn for the first time.

PS.
Con Air is a stupid movie.
A hotel right off Times Square means tourists. TONS of tourists.
Walking 28 blocks means blisters when you wear new shoes.
The Hudson River is not entirely straight.