Originally Posted by grindy

Spent a big chunk of my day looking into a microscope. Makes one feel all smart and sciency..

Originally Posted by Exo

New Orleans is good for three things, jazz, food and debauchery. There is no open container law. There are ads for free body shots on a stripper of your choice when you buy a high shelf bottle of alcohol. Bourbon street is designed to get you as f*cked up as humanly possible and make you regret your life the day after. The cool thing though is that literally a block away art art galleries and old people walking hand in hand looking at all the buildings. The food is amazing. I have charbroiled oysters and a shrimp/catfish po'boy from the originating place, Parkway Bakery. It was out of this world. The jazz clubs were great but it was hard finding one without a cover. Those, so I've been told, are in the more seedier neighborhoods and I had been drinking a lot so I figured it'd be best not to venture in. So if you want to drink your face off and pig out on amazing seafood, go to New Orleans. It's a dirty scummy fun city that I could only take a night or to of but it's worth a stop.

Originally Posted by Exo

New Orleans is good for three things, jazz, food and debauchery. There is no open container law. There are ads for free body shots on a stripper of your choice when you buy a high shelf bottle of alcohol. Bourbon street is designed to get you as f*cked up as humanly possible and make you regret your life the day after. The cool thing though is that literally a block away art art galleries and old people walking hand in hand looking at all the buildings. The food is amazing. I have charbroiled oysters and a shrimp/catfish po'boy from the originating place, Parkway Bakery. It was out of this world. The jazz clubs were great but it was hard finding one without a cover. Those, so I've been told, are in the more seedier neighborhoods and I had been drinking a lot so I figured it'd be best not to venture in. So if you want to drink your face off and pig out on amazing seafood, go to New Orleans. It's a dirty scummy fun city that I could only take a night or to of but it's worth a stop.

Originally Posted by Exo

The caverns were the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. I got emotional in there. I had never really seen the Earth be so beautiful like that before and it wasn't crowded so I had a lot of time to myself in there. Cathartic experience.

Originally Posted by Exo

As for NM, I drove past a lot of those kind of towns but didn't stop much. I did however stay in Hobbs, New Mexico for a night and actually ate at a Chili's due to me having found a gift card in my room from God knows where. It was actually packed. Them people like their fast food disguised as actually cooked and prepared food.

Originally Posted by Chiomara

They love Chili's here in Texas too. The ONLY good thing there (for your future reference) is the blackberry iced tea. Chili's, Applebees and Denny's are like the unholy trinity of awful bland roadside dining.

Originally Posted by innerspaceboy

So, SO much is happening. I'll try to be as concise as possible.

THE NEW GIG:

The new job is incredibly challenging. 13-hour days when you factor in the hours of my standing in downpours at 5 in the morning and again at 7 at night waiting for public transit. After all that I'm exhausted... but SATISFIED, unlike the crushing defeat and hopelessness I felt at the old job. The IT work is almost entirely email-based, so I'm not sitting on calls all day as I'd anticipated, but the real challenge is that the logic is exponential. Everything is an exception to the rule and I'm trusted to work out solutions for 700 offices around the US day in and day out. I'd felt tremendous anxiety as I'm so linear and process-based in my thinking, but in the first three days I'm making tremendous strides and have impressed the senior IT staff, which carries a lot of weight in the office. I think I just might pull this off. And best of all, I'm the least-skilled gent in the room for a change, which is fantastically refreshing. Here I have the opportunity to challenge myself and to grow.

THE DIVORCE:

I hit an emotionally-crushing brick wall yesterday when my wife informed me that she'd consulted a pro-bono lawyer who told her that all my work - the papers I'd drafted, notarized, and the hundreds I'd spent to file them, were incorrect and inadmissible. I'd potentially have to start from scratch all over again and have to re-pay the fees. Unlitigated divorce is treacherous territory for a novice, and it leaves you feeling helpless when you get this sort of news.

But I reached out to my resources and, long story short, the papers are just fine. I'm accepting a request of amendment by my wife which will require that I re-serve her, buying her another 20 days and which will require us to appear in court where otherwise it would have just been processed automatically. She needs us to appear to agree to waive on of my conditions, which I'm fine with if it gets the job done.

Crisis averted.

Originally Posted by RoxyRollah

IMO I don't know jack-**** though so don't listen to me.

Originally Posted by Franco Pepe Kalle

The problem is that most police officers in America are psychopaths.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

You're a terrible dictionary.

Originally Posted by djchameleon

Applebees isn't too bad but the other two I agree with and wouldn't be caught dead in.

Originally Posted by [MERIT]

Got my son for the weekend

Originally Posted by Kiiii

Why would you trade up a perfectly good weekend?

Originally Posted by grindy

Just don't piss in his mouth or shove stuff in his dick. He tends to frown upon that.

Originally Posted by The Identity Matrix

I was told in plug to say Kiiii is funny and clever