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no snazzy title today kids, can’t come up with one. sorry.

why do i feel guilty when i don’t post. i don’t owe you people anything…you’re not paying for this shit, nor did i agree to post everyday. werid.

so to continue my, apparenlty boring and unfunny, chornical of a business boy on the road….i eventually did get on a plane, a very little plane, and made it to ohio-it was one of those regional tiny planes with no space in the over head bins, and no bathroom type planes. the flight was ok, nothing special.  the little plane landed in a different terminal of the airport from the one i am used to, so i had to take a 10 min journey on mechanical sidewalks and escaltors.  the art/decor of public places like airports is interesting to me. apparently the murals of red and blue lights are there to make my time in the airport better. i dunno, they just seem weird to me. i’m sure it’s a big deal for the artist…"you know, i did the walkway between terminal c and D in the cleveland airport…wanna come back to my place for a drink?" …and shit, but i guess i’m just not down with art.

my rental car reservation was with yet another rental company..and the car of the week is……<drumroll>

bronze  buick century !!! now that’s a rental car!  as part of my now 2 regular biz travel reports, (the first being the review of my driver) I’ll tear in to my rental car. actually, i can’t really complain about the bronzed bomber.  it’s a rental car’s car. i do have a few thoughts

1. auto adjusting volume on radio–bad idea. i suppose the spirit behind the idea is that when a car is going faster, most people have to turn up the radio, and when they slow down, they need to then turn it down. ok i can get behind that. but to setup the radio to get quieter automatically when you slow down, well that’s just stupid.  i guess the engineers thought…"well we could work on reducing road noise,…..NAH lets just make the radio get louder the faster you go–brilliant!"  thmbs down from the jefke.
2. words on the heating/cooling console rather than little pictures.  I guess GM has a lot of faith in the audience for their cars–so much faith that they opted to put helpful settings like "BI-LEV" and "HTR" and "DEF" on the heater controls.  now i can figure out DEF, and i think HTR is heater, but I have no idea what BI LEV is, and am a bit afraid that something might come out of the seat if i use that setting.  now i have a masters and shit–and i don’t get it. i just wonder how mama walmart dropped out of 8th grade GM owner fairs with that shit.  i suppose i’ll never know.
3. reverse lights that turn on when you unlock the car.  i dunno not a big deal i suppose, but what’s the point of that? i jumped back when i first saw it.
4. and of course, the lights and radio stay on after you turn off the car. you know my feelings about that shit.

anywho, i made it to the company compound and made my connection to the member of the team i’ll be working with to drive down to cincy.  she led me to the team lead’s house to drop off my car so that it would be easier to get to when the trip was over.  i am happy to say that the 3.5 hr trip went well, i was able to keep the conversation going, and i dare say she didnt’ notice that i made every story up.  no no, i’m kidding.

The hotel that the company booked us in was pretty swanky, though everything seemed like they charged extra…the internet and shit. i don’t like that. plus there were signs everywhere as they were trying to sell you everything in the room " like the BATH BLANKET?, you can take it with you for 40 dollars" "LIKE the BED? go to our website and order one!" yeah ok sure.  well the beer in the mini bar was reasonable, so i hit that shit up. yeah, that’s right. big whoop, wanna fight?