I?m in Jacksonville Florida this week for work. Last week I was home in Boston. Two weeks ago I was in Vegas. Jacksonville is nice enough but the water tastes bad. People are nice though. The Super Bowl is here in less than two weeks and the city is pretty excited. The city does not have enough hotel rooms and are bringing in 4 or 5 cruise ships to supply more rooms but are still way under. I guess Houston had 55 thousand rooms last year for the Super Bowl and Jacksonville has15 thousand. The stadium holds 83 thousand people so you can do the math. I tried to win tickets this morning by calling into a local TV news station but I was not caller 8 so I didn?t win. I would have sold two of the tickets to someone in Boston and used the other two with my wife. It would have been a great weekend but is only a creative memory now. Such is life.
So getting back to Jacksonville. It snowed a lot today in Boston so our neighbor Paul was nice enough to shovel out our property. He is one of those guys, about my father?s age, who helps out anybody in the neighborhood. He is a plumber/electrician/mechanic/carpenter/mason/landscaper and anything else I need to live my part-time blue collar life. If I do my job in Jacksonville the way that I am expected to, this one week trip to a new client will turn into a very large project and I get to come to Jacksonville every week and maybe I will eventually get used to the bad tasting water.
On another note, I am on a diet to lose weight for cousin Kara?s wedding in March. I wanted to avoid Patti?s relative?s asking who the fat guy was and why she didn?t bring David out with her.
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