March 21, 2005

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  so i'm finally back to Chi-town after spending 5 days in KC.  racked up 46 hours of work in a 72 hour period.  spent a lot of that time in a place they call "the Caves".  I thought it was just a figure of speech like when you call your office the "dungeon".  found out when i got to the place that it literally was a cave!  place where they used to mine limestone or something like that.  the place was huge!  it was a complete underground system of tunnels that was about 3 car-widths wide and god knows how deep.  this place was self-sufficient, looked like it could survive a bomb.  had guards at the gate with a barricade that raises from the ground and and an arm that goes down to prevent unauthorized personnel from getting in / out.  anyway the whacked thing is that it was for office spaces.  yup office spaces.  not sure why in the world anyone would want to have an office without windows, no natural sunlight.  but this is the place where i had to set up a network for our disaster recovery site.

  
  

  when i finally had sunday to myself, i took advantage of the hotel fitness center and room service.  got dinner the night before and breakfast sunday morning.  after the food settled i hit the gym and ran about 5 miles (1 hour).  not very fast, but not bad either considering i haven't done anything in a while.  one of my other goals was to visit as many of the steakhouses out there as possible.  i was only able to hit 2 spots, since i didn't have a whole lot of time.  majestic has an excellent filet mignon but expect to pay top dollar.  hereford house had a really good prime rib (10 oz is still too big) and the price was just right.  i also got to see "be cool".  not bad... had a few funny scenes.  raji was probably the funniest character.

  
  

   

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