Back to the grind

Ahhh...what a weekend. It ended up being an outrageous one and I loved nearly every minute of it.

Thursday there was a happy hour/going away party for Danielle - a very important part of the team at work. She will be greatly missed. I only hope that the program does not suffer to much now that she is gone. Cleveland and Denver also played on Thursday night, so Emily (from work) and I went over to Crave to watch the game. I knew some of my buddies would be up there and Brady Quinn was starting (he is super hot). It was also trivia night. Our team ended up being "We Heart Brady Quinn" and we probably would have won if it wasn't for a few botched questions, but having Emily there really helped out. She knew lots of random stuff and filled in gaps that Dave and I would have definitely had that week. We ended up getting 2nd place. Unfortunately Cleveland also came in second place that night. My guess is that they lost because the offensive line was distracted by the hotness of Brady Quinn. :-) Matt and Shawn + all sort of other people from that crowd showed up, and at some point Dave and I decided it would be a good idea to go to Paradise Club with James T - bad idea. We did a shot of Ouzo while there - even worse idea. Speaking of shot though, I did discover Surfer on Acid though. That was tasty and discovered pre-Paradise Club. Dave and I ditched Travis there even though Kevin and Sal showed up to join us and rode back to the restaurant so Dave could head home. Well, of course Brett was sitting outside on the phone so we chatted with him and he convinced us to go over to On the Rocks for one last evening drink.

Friday I slept a good portion of the morning and then got up and Dave and I dropped my car off for an oil change and then headed to the new Lowe's store downtown as planned. "Linner" at Big Daddy's Burger Bar consisted of tots w/ pimento cheese, sliders, sweet potato fries, and a burger with habanero jack, avocado, garlic mayo, lettuce, tomato, onion. It would have been better with bacon, but heck - we needed to be responsible and conserve calories somewhere. We also decided to pop into the evil orange box down there - because it is a special format store. I have to say it was really cool. Lots of neat stuff was in there and it didn't feel like a home improvement store at all. That afternoon/evening I napped (SO stuffed from lunch). I had sort of just gotten up and messing around on the computer and trying to contemplate plans for the evening with Shawn called. I was tentatively planning to go to Gallway Hooker and see Phil & Mike play, but he let me know there was a Billy Sims show at Quaker Steak & Lube over in Concord and that the guitar he was playing was on the verge of breaking. So, I kindly met up with Ziggy Pockets at Smokin' Cuns and grabbed a backup before heading over to join them in Concord. The show was a good time, and it was the second time that weekend I had someone tell me - wow, its good to see you outside of Crave. Guess I have sort of only been going there lately. Brandon and Ziggy were doing a show at Smokin' Guns that night so Shawn and I headed out a little early hoping to catch the end of it - but we were too late.

Saturday I went shopping at Concord Mills. The only Circuit City around here is over there and I had decided to go ahead and get the comforter set I have been eying at Linens and Things, and I knew that the one here was out of stock already. I had to get a king size and was worried since I would not be able to return it, but it really looks great. I just have to get the wrinkles out of it. They were out of some of the accessory pillows, but I got those ordered this evening and should have them in 6 - 10 days. I stopped into Crave when I got back to Huntersville and the entire Ledfurd crowd was in there gettin' down so I figured heck why not...and joined in. We ended up going to Sushi at the Lake aka. Hibachi Heaven (which I think should really be Hibachi Hangover because that's where they all go after partying all night) and then out to the ranch before piling in the van to go to Greensboro for the Cold Ford show. Everyone was going cause his song, "Waffle House" features Sunny Ledfurd. It was a really good time. We rocked out playing tunes in the van all the way up there and I slept most of the way back. It was a late night and really good to go out with everyone. While I have hung around at the lake with all of them some - it was the first time I have really gone out with everyone and I think I held my own pretty well.

Today has been a pretty low key one. I got all my new toys out and played with most of them and have spent the evening messing around in iTunes, playing Guitar Hero, and hoping I will soon get tired and be ready to go to bed. I slept too much today and now don't want to go to sleep. But, I need to get there because tomorrow is back to the grind and 5:30 am will arrive early. Its going to be a busy week.

We finalized scope on stage 3 marketing & promotions and now that I have a target to work towards life is MUCH easier. There are only a few things I need to get finalized. The target is to have the BSD ready to submit on Friday. It should be doable if I can get some decisions from people pretty quickly. It will be a little touch because I will be out Tuesday and part of Wednesday. I thought it was just going to be two half days (so I can go to ATL for the Coldplay concert), but it turns out I have a doctor's appt. on Tuesday morning. I didn't think I saw the knee guy until Nov. 18th - but Friday I got a call reminding me of the appt. on the 11th. So - I guess I will just head to ATL after that as opposed to waiting until 1:00 to hit the road. No point in going into the office for 2 hrs. I am going to stay with Tara in ATL that night. I really can't wait until the concert. It is going to rock! I am also interested to know what the knee guy is going to say. At least it has not swollen again since I had the fluid pulled off of it the second time. I don't know if it is because of the steroid she shot in there, or the anti-inflammatory Rx she gave me.

Friday night Ledfurd and the Piedmont Boys are doing a show out in Greensboro so we are going to party down up there that night. One of my friends from work is actually going to go. She is friends with B-Stikks girlfriend Paula. We are also trying to convince Danielle to come up for the show - but I don't know how much she would really like it. They are a rough crowd. Saturday there is a Billy Sims show at Smokin' Guns - so there won't be much rest for the weary.

I must go to bed now (even though I am not really tired). The alarm goes off in 4.5 hours.