Today's update
Feb. 12th, 2007 10:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterGreetings from the "Business Center" of the Westport Sheraton.
Saturday's laundry went decently, as while I was in the process of doing it, I got called by someone who had been wanting to buy the Linksys router that I had listed on Craigslist. He wanted to give me $30 instead of my $35 asking price, but I talked him into giving me and my laundry a lift back from the laundromat, and so saved me $6 in cab fees, so I feel I still came out ahead.
Last night I rode up to St. Louis with my brother Aaron and a friend/co-worker whose name I forget, and also a ferret (caged and sleeping). I tried out an old FM transmitter gizmo that I'd recently unearthed with my iPod, and to my delight it worked quite well; I was able to play tunes off the iPod all the way up to St. Louis. We stopped for dinner at La Mexican Kitchen in Lebanon. They told me briefly about the Universalis game they had played (it was a post-apocalyptic zombie western with floating castles), and we had a pretty good time.
We dropped off the ferret and the co-worker (in different places) and got to Aaron's at about 10:30. I helped him unload the pickup he'd borrowed, and then he set me up on some mattresses in the basement. I showered then went to bed. Didn't sleep the best sleep I'd ever slept—it was kind of chilly down there, and the mattress had a loose spring poking up at just the right spot to stick me in the butt—but I got by all right.
I got up at about 7, shaved, and had a couple of bowls of cereal for breakfast, then Aaron dropped off his oldest daughter at elementary school and we drove out to Westport; I played the interview I'd done with Melanie MacQueen through my iPod along the way. I got to the interview site at about 8:45, went upstairs, read a little in Mona Lisa Overdrive while I waited, and then had the interview. I think it went pretty well; the fellow asked the usual "stumper" questions and I think I came up with some okay answers. I hope it works out.
After the interview, I went over to the Panera Bread (or is it still called St. Louis Bread Company up here in St. Louis? For some reason, I seem to remember it being SLBC still, but not sure) across the way and had a souffle for breakfast. Called my friend![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tbutler, who's working at his company's office in St. Louis at the moment. Turns out he's only about 3 miles or so away from my present location, though since I'm on foot at the moment I'm doubtful I could do anything toward dropping by. But I stopped at a magazine store nearby and asked if they had any bus route maps, figuring that it might be possible to take a bus if one could be found going the right way. They didn't have any, but suggested I go over to the hotel and ask at the lobby.
When I got to the hotel, the clerk said that they didn't have any maps, but they could be found online, why don't I go down to the business center and look. So I did, and discovered that this particular business center isn't one of those where they charge you so much per minute, or even have their computers secured at all. So here I am, banging out a journal entry and waiting for my brother to come take me to lunch at the nearby Drunken Fish sushi place.
Ah, life is just better with Internet access.
Saturday's laundry went decently, as while I was in the process of doing it, I got called by someone who had been wanting to buy the Linksys router that I had listed on Craigslist. He wanted to give me $30 instead of my $35 asking price, but I talked him into giving me and my laundry a lift back from the laundromat, and so saved me $6 in cab fees, so I feel I still came out ahead.
Last night I rode up to St. Louis with my brother Aaron and a friend/co-worker whose name I forget, and also a ferret (caged and sleeping). I tried out an old FM transmitter gizmo that I'd recently unearthed with my iPod, and to my delight it worked quite well; I was able to play tunes off the iPod all the way up to St. Louis. We stopped for dinner at La Mexican Kitchen in Lebanon. They told me briefly about the Universalis game they had played (it was a post-apocalyptic zombie western with floating castles), and we had a pretty good time.
We dropped off the ferret and the co-worker (in different places) and got to Aaron's at about 10:30. I helped him unload the pickup he'd borrowed, and then he set me up on some mattresses in the basement. I showered then went to bed. Didn't sleep the best sleep I'd ever slept—it was kind of chilly down there, and the mattress had a loose spring poking up at just the right spot to stick me in the butt—but I got by all right.
I got up at about 7, shaved, and had a couple of bowls of cereal for breakfast, then Aaron dropped off his oldest daughter at elementary school and we drove out to Westport; I played the interview I'd done with Melanie MacQueen through my iPod along the way. I got to the interview site at about 8:45, went upstairs, read a little in Mona Lisa Overdrive while I waited, and then had the interview. I think it went pretty well; the fellow asked the usual "stumper" questions and I think I came up with some okay answers. I hope it works out.
After the interview, I went over to the Panera Bread (or is it still called St. Louis Bread Company up here in St. Louis? For some reason, I seem to remember it being SLBC still, but not sure) across the way and had a souffle for breakfast. Called my friend
tbutler, who's working at his company's office in St. Louis at the moment. Turns out he's only about 3 miles or so away from my present location, though since I'm on foot at the moment I'm doubtful I could do anything toward dropping by. But I stopped at a magazine store nearby and asked if they had any bus route maps, figuring that it might be possible to take a bus if one could be found going the right way. They didn't have any, but suggested I go over to the hotel and ask at the lobby.When I got to the hotel, the clerk said that they didn't have any maps, but they could be found online, why don't I go down to the business center and look. So I did, and discovered that this particular business center isn't one of those where they charge you so much per minute, or even have their computers secured at all. So here I am, banging out a journal entry and waiting for my brother to come take me to lunch at the nearby Drunken Fish sushi place.
Ah, life is just better with Internet access.
