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Saturday, July 25, 2009

I hate math

This past week has been all about numbers. Here's a few of them.
2,642miles
7 days
4 airplanes
2 trains
1 dinner, for 2 dudes, at a fine restaurant, while wearing this t-shirt.









New York City is a pretty big place. Restaurants and hotels number in the thousands.
I've spent my fair share of time in and out of many of them over the years. Most times, I walk away from them having a great story to tell. This past weekend, I had to reach back a bit and pull one from the past.
Last night, I stayed at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. Arguably, one of the more extravagant hotels in a city with no shortness of extravagance. Most of my time was spent in one of the many conference rooms with all the trimmings. What are the chances that I would end up in this room, in this hotel. After all, within just a few blocks from here are dozens of other places that could have accommodated the group of us for this training exercise.
A few years ago, the scene in this room was quite different. Amidst all the corporate money and high dollar bar tabs this weekend, I was grateful to have a much better story to tell of time spent in this room.
Dad is on the right, I'm on the left. Everyone knows who is in the middle, right?

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Troy Aikmen??

Shamus said...

I'll pretend I didn't read that.
I see this going downhill rapidly.

Anonymous said...

A young Jimmie Johnson??

Anonymous said...

Happy Birthday, Traveler!

Anonymous said...

and you try to give me that shirt!
im tellin jackson. she loves him right?!

Shamus said...

Finally someone picked up on the Shirt!! I thought for sure, I would take more grief for the shirt, as opposed to the photo!
You tell Jackson, I'll go to the beach with her anytime, or NYC

Anonymous said...

totally not what i meant with the jackson comment

Shamus said...

duh

Anonymous said...

shut up! 'your not even supposed to be here'

Shamus said...

You win

Anonymous said...

=]