It just wasn't meant to be I suppose. Another day in Dayton, another day of what could have been. Yesterday was a miserable day, but today I woke up to sunshine and, get this, warm weather. Dayton is beginning to show its many faces. I was hoping we would get out of meetings early, like just after noon. We finished earlier than I expected, around 11:45, and I was thinking "I might get a chance to enjoy this nice weather, and maybe finally see Dayton's wonders". Wrong.
The work didn't end there. We had to make stops at two other places. But first we needed to grab a quick lunch. Finally, maybe something unique to Dayton. Wanna guess? Burger King. The BK Lounge. The fuckin' King of Kings. You can insert your own punchline here, I am done with the fast-food jokes, there is no point. After lunch, we headed to the first destination, which was actually Wright State University, where we have some work going on. This I was happy about, if you remember I was planning on checking it out anyway. Of course we made our way straight for the building we needed to be in, but I still got a chance to see some of the campus. Its not bad, quite big actually, but some pretty decent architecture. It brought me back to my days prowling around UB's campus, walking around like I owned the place. We crossed through the student union (not bad, bigger than UB's actually, and a better design) and I got to see the inside of a couple of buildings. I was pretty satisfied, despite not getting a longer chance to mosey around. Not enough cute Asian girls either. After that we had to go to a nearby airbase, where we stayed for like 3 hours in a concrete room. Bored to tears and feeling miles away from the nice weather, I contemplated the interesting methods of suicide I could employ. Hanging myself with a computer cord ranked pretty high.
It wasn't until after four o'clock that we concluded, and while my boss had a dinner banquet to attend, it was down to myself and my two other colleagues for dinner plans, and our options were limited to the places that could be reached on foot (boss took the rental). We decided to meet at six. I though, great, I will rest for a bit, grab a quick dinner, then go do something, the weather is still nice.
I could have eaten alone and did something more fancy, but I didn't want to eat alone really, and the only place that was close that was different from fast food was a place called "Thai Express". I wasn't terribly in the mood for Thai tonight, and generally if a place has "Express" in the name, the food is shit. Just saying. The two guys wanted to eat Subway, so there you have it: Arby's, BK, and Subway, all in three days. Goes beyond pathetic, I am lost for words.
We finished up, I walked back with them to their hotel and rounded off our discussion about how the trip/meetings went. After seeing them off I was thinking, "Alright, time to work off these awful meals and do some walking around, maybe go back to see more of campus". Then it began to pour. Sheets of rain. A deluge. I stared and disbelief and could only mutter "Fuckin' Dayton" under my breath.
Up bright and early tomorrow for a flight back to Syracuse, and probably even more bad weather and boredom. Might have to do some movie viewing to pass the time. See you in Upstate New York.
The work didn't end there. We had to make stops at two other places. But first we needed to grab a quick lunch. Finally, maybe something unique to Dayton. Wanna guess? Burger King. The BK Lounge. The fuckin' King of Kings. You can insert your own punchline here, I am done with the fast-food jokes, there is no point. After lunch, we headed to the first destination, which was actually Wright State University, where we have some work going on. This I was happy about, if you remember I was planning on checking it out anyway. Of course we made our way straight for the building we needed to be in, but I still got a chance to see some of the campus. Its not bad, quite big actually, but some pretty decent architecture. It brought me back to my days prowling around UB's campus, walking around like I owned the place. We crossed through the student union (not bad, bigger than UB's actually, and a better design) and I got to see the inside of a couple of buildings. I was pretty satisfied, despite not getting a longer chance to mosey around. Not enough cute Asian girls either. After that we had to go to a nearby airbase, where we stayed for like 3 hours in a concrete room. Bored to tears and feeling miles away from the nice weather, I contemplated the interesting methods of suicide I could employ. Hanging myself with a computer cord ranked pretty high.
It wasn't until after four o'clock that we concluded, and while my boss had a dinner banquet to attend, it was down to myself and my two other colleagues for dinner plans, and our options were limited to the places that could be reached on foot (boss took the rental). We decided to meet at six. I though, great, I will rest for a bit, grab a quick dinner, then go do something, the weather is still nice.
I could have eaten alone and did something more fancy, but I didn't want to eat alone really, and the only place that was close that was different from fast food was a place called "Thai Express". I wasn't terribly in the mood for Thai tonight, and generally if a place has "Express" in the name, the food is shit. Just saying. The two guys wanted to eat Subway, so there you have it: Arby's, BK, and Subway, all in three days. Goes beyond pathetic, I am lost for words.
We finished up, I walked back with them to their hotel and rounded off our discussion about how the trip/meetings went. After seeing them off I was thinking, "Alright, time to work off these awful meals and do some walking around, maybe go back to see more of campus". Then it began to pour. Sheets of rain. A deluge. I stared and disbelief and could only mutter "Fuckin' Dayton" under my breath.
Up bright and early tomorrow for a flight back to Syracuse, and probably even more bad weather and boredom. Might have to do some movie viewing to pass the time. See you in Upstate New York.
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