Well I am back from Nashville! I went out there for work and made it an extended vacation to visit with Lee and Missy. You know, That’s a long ass drive! I left on Wednesday at like 6:30am EST and arrived there at around 5pm CST. Because I really didn’t want to leave him alone in the house for 5 days, I decided to take Andrew with me. (Thus the reason for driving). We picked up a book on CD and hit the road. We did our best to keep stops at a minimum as we wanted to maximize our time there. The book helped out with that a lot.
We listened to “Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader.” This was really a good book! It talked about the events that happened shortly after EP-III and what Anakin was going through. I highly suggest it. I only wish I had gotten a book for the return trip. I ended up calling people at random to talk on the phone.
When I arrived, I set up house in Lee’s basement apartment. Of course, there was no Internet! Apparently his cable modem was fritzing out. So we spent much of the night trouble shooting it and bringing it back online. This took till about 12:30am. I still needed to get up the next morning for my class in downtown. I zonked out shortly after we got the net back up.
The next morning I woke up and headed out to downtown Nashville. I met up with Dave (one of the guys from work) and we hit up the doubletree lobby to find where we needed to go. We were there for the VM-TechEd class on some new VMWare technology. It was only a one day class, but was supposed to be really good. I say supposed to be because it never happened. Apparently they had canceled the class with the hotel, but never bothered to contact any of the students. There were about 10 of us wandering around the hotel trying to find it. Needless to say, we were a little miffed. No one could get a hold of the people putting on the class (even today, I have not been contacted). We called our boss and explained what happened.
With a little spare time to kill now, Dave and I headed out to find breakfast. This is apparently quite the chore in Nashville. The area we were in didn’t seem to have many places open at 8am. We settled on the Hilton hotel and ate our $12 buffet. Afterwards we hit up the Country Music Hall of Fame. Dave has this uncle named Joe Maphis. He had a nifty little display in there that Dave wanted to see. Aside from seeing a bit of Dave’s heritage, this place was NOT worth the 17 bucks that we dropped to get in. He was able to pick up 2 CD’s of his uncle that he wasn’t able to find anywhere else. Just wish we had done that without spending the entry fee. After that we went into a little guitar shop on 4th street where Dave spent a lot of time drooling and speaking un-intelligibly. Without anything more exciting (and it only being 10am), Dave decided to head to the airport and try to get back early.
I dropped Dave off and met up with Lee for lunch. I got to see around his office and meet a bunch of his co-workers. We went out for Mexican (which I learned afterwards that Lee doesn’t like very much). It was a fun time, but I was really starting to get exhausted. I finally bowed out and went back to take a nap. And with that I will say, to be continued!
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