Saturday, September 8, 2007

A big goob in the Big Apple

I just got home from a 4 day trip to NYC to produce a show for the "the company". No not that "company" but I think these guys could have me killed or at least bored to death.
(a video locked up during a demo, wanted to offer my Mac so it would work. I didn't I behaved) Take the worst Chicago traffic and multiply that time 3. I can't believe how horrible Manhattan traffic is. A messenger bike guy darted in front of me and I almost hit him, he just smiled and yelled "MAYBE NEXT TIME!" I was hoping he would come back and give me another chance. We unload the truck and Scott takes the truck 6 blocks away to a lot that charges 160 per day to park there. The operator casually pointed to the tip can. Scott taking the hint, places a 20 in the can and magically the rate dropped to 90 dollars. Gotta love a deal? NYC is so busy, I'm convinced that all other cities are cow towns. Leaving yesterday I hit the Lincoln tunnel by 3:30pm. I was in bumper to bumper traffic for the next 1.5 hours and only moved 14 miles. Nuts I tell ya NUTS!
I decided to set my iPod to play alphabetically for my trip home. I let the songs just play. I had no idea how many songs I never have heard have been sitting patiently just waiting for me to listen to them. As I drove by Toledo I had to sit through 4 versions of "Blue Christmas" man that sucked, all 4 are now deleted. Need to go through and get rid of many more...

3 comments:

Angie said...

. . . but (she asks impatiently) did you see any celebrities worth mentioning?

Was the Elmer Fudd "Blue Christmas" one of the versions you kept, I assume??

Doug said...

no celebs...
I hate Blue Christmas so much I deleted them all...ha!

Steve said...

It sounds like you're a wheeler-dealer now - saving fifty bucks in a "round-about" way is a very New Yawk thing to do.

There's an energy in NYC that isn't anywhere else. It would be hard to do all the time, but a great place to visit. Even if you can't show off your Mac . . .