I’ve determined that Delaware is the only place to get a respectable soco & lime shot.
We have repeatedly tried to get them in Florida to no avil. Sometimes the bartender puts in way too much soco so that its not even a shot any more. Sometimes the bartender has never even heard to the shot, and gives you a glass of soco with a lime. It’s kind of sad really, as its my favorite shot.
Cest la vie.
I’m heading up to DE this weekend. Catching a flight back to Philly late on Friday and then heading down to Delaware for some good times Saturday. Everyone starts school again next week so it’ll be fun to catch people before that starts up.
Training is starting to drag a bit, hopefully more hands on stuff will start and I’ll be more engaged. At least I have a breif break this weekend!
Gotta love the eight hour training sessions. They really make being in Florida fun!
I can’t complain too much. This weekend was pretty much spent lounging around the hotel and making use of my per diem. The pool here is really nice, and its a good change of pace from going to classes and being indoors all day. It seems like we go out every single night, and its a huge change of pace from school when we were lucky to get out once a week. It’s really starting to wear me out though, thats why it was nice to just hang out around the hotel for a day or two.
I really miss going out for bike rides. I miss just exploring new places and dealing with all the crazy philly people. They keep things interesting. Theres not too much alone time here, your always with people and around people and it can become very stressful.
I will get to go home for a few hours this weekend. I have a lot of mail waiting for me, and some things to sort out. Hopefully I will get to stop by Delaware this weekend and hang out with everyone one last time before the semester and work starts.
Some of us who will be here in training over the labor day holiday weekend are planning a trip down to Fort Lauderdale. Woot! Maybe I can convince my uncle to let me have the condo for a few days. That would be sweet.
Well, I’m down in Florida for some training. 25 lovely days and nights at the Swan & Dolphin hotel. It’s a little smaller than I remember it, but then again, I was a little smaller the last time I was here. It’s been an okay time so far. Some of the initial classes have been straight power point and borning. But we have been going out around town at night to make up for that. Tonight I am pacing myself, because four weeks of this will send me into a comma.
The trip down was rather interesting. I ended up waiting almost an hour to get through the security checkpoints. (All becuase people hate us.) After getting on the plane I had to sit between two rather large people. The flight was overbooked, but I managed to get a seat in the bulkhead row, so I had lots of leg room. Right after we got in the air I opened the overhead compartment to get my bag, and someone elses briefcase comes flying down and hits someone in the head. I stand there in awe just appologizing to the guy. I felt so bad, but it wasn’t my fault. He says hes okay, but about 30 mins into the flight he starts complaining to the flight attendant that his neck hurts and blah blah blah. She makes him fill out an accident report, and then she turns to me and makes me fill a sheet out with my name and address. I’m like whatever, I think I have insurnace that covers this if I get sued. The guy kept saying it wasn’t my fault, but I’m not going to be surprised if I have a nice letter waiting for me when I get home… Too bad they have to find me to serve me hahahaha.
After we landed I headed over to the baggage claim. (Where all my bags were because I checked everything because not doing so would have been a nightmare.) An hour and a half later I am at the lost luggage counter telling the woman the address of the hotel I am staying at. It was a pretty bad day. All is well now though, I have my luggage, and it wasn’t beat up too bad. It just wanted to take a later flight than me.
So I went exploring last night, just to take a break from building furnature. I hopped on the bike and went down the really big hill that leads up to my house thats still relatively unpaved (that was fun.) My goal was to find this trail that follows the schuylkill. I ended up going down all sorts of scary and interesting roads until I happened up on a sign that said “To Valley Forge.”
The trail was pretty cool. It takes you along the river, and the old train tracks of the PA RR into Conchohocken (sp?) and up into Valley Forge, PA. A nice little 24 mile round trip loop. Now I just need to get down the other way and check out Fairmount park.
Last night /this morning was a lot of fun. Basically I went out with Kellie to “Old New York,” a club in Old Bridge to celebrate. A cover band was playing with a bunch of kids she knew from Grammer school, so we went to support them. Overall it was a good time, I was forced to dance very early on (like when there was no one out there,) but other than that my comfort level was fine haha!
I was not aware that last call in Jersey was at 2:45am. I am so used to Delware kicking people out at 12:45, this was a whole two hours longer than I was used to, tuckered me out. I was really excited because we went to a diner afterwards, reminds me of college. You know, that life event that happened oh so long ago.
Happy Birthday Kel.
As part of working for “The Bank” employees must complete four hours of community service. Our chosen service was Habitat for Humanity. My greatest fear was that they were going to let me build something unsupervised and that someone would get hurt later because I had no idea what I was doing. Thank goodness it was a little different then that.
As part of the paperwork habitat sends you before you work, they say you must wear pants even if it is hot outside. It was over 100 degrees today, I figured that pants clause didn’t apply anymore and took my chances with shorts. No one said anything. Basically I figured out who does most of the habitat work. It’s basically all retired old men who I guess have found a pretty good hobby. Their all crazy strong though, they have that old man strength. For my efforts I got to build a scaffolding above some stairs, and hang some drywall. I learned that I’m not that good at hammering things, and that drywall makes me itch. Other than that it was a pretty good time, overall much better than sitting at a desk all day.
