So this is the place that has the Perrier and the Tazo Passion tea, the best cold beverage ever ever ever. I have already had four, and it’s only 9:08 a.m.
I am a reporting god. I have already covered the 15-minute welcome address and written a 363-word piece about it. And I’ve uploaded today’s episode. All this in an hour. This afternoon I am going to go with the photographer onto the floor and do a “man on the street” segment, which will take about 10 minutes. That’s all I am doing today. Why my coworkers don’t want to do this is beyond me.
It’s sort of mocking me to look at the clock on my laptop and have it say it is 6:09. I could change it to Eastern time, but it’s OK. Anyone that walks by can use it as a conversation piece, and I do need to pass the time somehow.
For a good time, go to the Orlando Craigslist casual encounters page. There are some Gartner analysts that want to give women discreet oil massages. Seriously. I am debating creating a gmail account and responding, just to see who they are. It would be funny if they used their gartner.com address for it. (You can’t tell by looking at the ad because it uses an anonymous address that auto-forwards to you.)
Delta has free Dish Network and a trivia game that you can play against the other passengers. I played two of the 17 rounds and won both of them. It also keeps an all-time high score list for the flight, and I won that, too. You don’t really win anything. It says what seat each score is sitting in, but no one came over to congratulate me.
The flight attendants (They were all women, so why can’t I call them stewardesses? “Stewardesses” is the longest word you can type [correctly] with one hand.) thought they were funny. It was the only problem with the flight. The team was Orlando-based, and when we landed, one of them did a HORRIBLE Mickey Mouse impression. It was so bad that I did not realize that that was what it was until she used the word “swell,” because who else would say “swell” besides Mickey Mouse?
The flight attendant from San Jose to LAX was some Filipino guy, and he was the best flight attendant ever. I tell ya. Filipinos are the best to play poker with, and they are the best flight attendants too.
The connection this year is so much faster than last year, and the wireless actually works, too. I uploaded today’s show at 200K. It’s about 80 at home, and when I tried to do it this morning in my hotel room, it was eight. “High-speed Internet” my ass.
I stayed up late to watch the football game. Yeah, the East Coast sucks. The game ended at nearly midnight. How can the East Coast have such rabid sports fans when the games end so late? Maybe the sleep deprivation is what makes them rabid.
The shuttle driver last night took the scenic route to get here from the airport. I saw eight all-you-can-eat buffets. Some intersections had two. Rival buffets! I also heard about CiCi’s pizza, although I did not see one. That the shuttle bus driver voluntarily brought it up with a passenger (you know… every bus has that person that talks to the driver) should tell you all you need to know about the popularity of the all-you-can-eat-buffet in Orlando. I also saw a Dunkin Donuts and a Waffle House. If it weren’t for the climate and the time zone, I would totally live here.
I really need to find something to download. It’s such a waste of bandwidth not to! Since my laptop’s reimage, I have been playing The Sims Online off of my external drive, which is at home. Maybe I will play it while I am here after all.
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