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This Ain't Okay
Posted by | Posted in Goings On | Posted on March 9, 2010
I'm in Phoenix this week for a work thing. I've been looking forward to this all winter, as it's the closest thing I'm going to get to a tropical vacation for the foreseeable future.
And guess what?
It's freakin' cold out. It was 46 today, which is only 6 degrees warmer than it was in Boise. I'm calling bullshit on this one. I checked the weather before I left, and yesterday was supposed to be the only coolish day, so I only packed one pair of jeans. The rest of my stuff is capris, and I'm afraid I'll either freeze from wearing those or start to smell funny because my jeans have been worn for 5 straight days.
Tomorrow's weather suggests it might be in the mid 60s, and that's got me hopeful. But, damn!
In an unrelated category, I've learned two valuable lessons already:
1) Hotel happy hours are a terrible place to recruit shuttle van drivers from among your coworkers. This is because they are all soused up on free liquor, and have no intention of driving anywhere. It's not possible to rationalize with them and explain that they don't have to drive until the following day. Van keys are to happy hour as garlic is to vampires.
2) Never accept a ride back to the hotel from a coworker who literally spent their entire adult life riding the Metro and who doesn't even own a car. They will scare the shit out of you on the freeway.
I can't wait for tomorrow's valuable life lessons. Send warm thoughts.
If you want to buy a car, you would have to get the home loans. Furthermore, my brother always utilizes a student loan, which is the most fast.
A "tropical vacation" you'll at least remember!
Ohhh! Hope it warms up for you! I've not spent much time in the desert (there was a few days in Palm Desert on a biz trip once. In the summertime.) but the weather there totally confuses me.