So much for my “daily updates”….
Today is Tuesday, and I usually go to Boomer Jack’s Bar & Grill after work with work friends, for Buffalo Wings and beer. So that is the plan tonight.
Emily and I bought a 2005 Ford Escape on ebay last weekend. We put a deposit down and booked a flight, and we leave Friday night to fly to Fort Lauderdale, FL to pick it up. We’ll get there late that night, so we will pickup the truck Saturday morning and hit to road for our 20-hour trek back to TX. ROAD TRIP!
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I’ve spent the last week working in Norwich, CT. We were sent up here, a few people from my job, to learn a new account that is being transitioned from this site back to Dallas. So we can up to each learn our seperate parts of the account to take back and train others to get ready for the Dallas roll-out, some time in last July.
Last night we went to a local micro-brewery and had some chicken wings. It was a nice little town, about 30 min from where we stayed. I wish I had known about this place earlier in the week and I would have taken some photos. Next time I come back, I might try and do that.
The brewery we ate at is www.willibrew.com
Norwich is a nice place, but I am ready to come home. The weather here is weird…middle of June and the past 2 days it has been around 60 degrees each morning. And I didn’t bring any long-sleeve shirts, LOL. Next month some of the folks up here are coming to Texas for some other training. I am gonna be amused to see how they like Texas weather.
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We went to NO over the weekend, my main purpose was to go down to the 9th Ward and shoot some photos of the Katrina devistation down there, which hasn’t really been cleaned up yet. I should be uploading my photos tonight or tomorrow, you can find them on www.deepellumphotos.com
Most of the damage to the 9th Ward area looks just like torn-down houses that haven’t been kept up…except that it is extire streets of them. You can’t really tell that it was flood damage much at all except for the metal and chain link fences that are all rusted out. Other than that, it could have been any rural area in Tornado Alley from Texas to Kansas.
Friday night we went to dinner at this cool new place in the city. Cochan was the name, I couldn’t find a website for them, but here is an article on the exact dish I ordered, LOL. Afterwards we walked over to Pat O’Briens and took in some Piano Bar action, but it was pretty full and we didn’t stay long. It is a nice scene though, second time I have been there, and I still wanna go back again.
On Saturday we went down to the French Quarter and walked around for a while. We ate lunch at Central Grocery and had Muffalettas. They were quite tasty, though I doubt they are “the original” as they claim to be. However, it was definately lunch-money well spent. Check this link for more details.
Next time I go to NO, I plan to take about a day and just walk the streets of the city, Bourbon Street, the French Quarter, all of it, just taking photos. It is a great place with a very scenic view.
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