Back to Atlanta

[jay]

Drill automation tests are already underway... and going well, apparently. I'm here this week for that, and to serve on someone's Ph.D. dissertation committee. cyan_blue is traveling with me this week, including a stop in Houston Friday.

The flight out was uneventful, and we missed dinner with sisterfish125, but made the best of it by introducing NYC-born Geri to Southern food at Mary Mac's Tea Room, on Ponce near the Fox. She liked the fried green tomatoes, but I finished her okra for her as well as her collards. ;) Then we found a couple of geocaches in Virginia-Highlands before heading to the hotel in Marietta (which itself is diagonally across from the duplex where patgreene and I first lived in 1983-84 after we were married).

Tomorrow: drilling tests, visit my parents for dinner with Geri, wish us all luck!

Comments

[anaisdjuna.livejournal.com]

What she didn't finish her collards?!

Luck is wished :-)

[radiantbaby.livejournal.com]

Have fun while you're here! :)

[sisterfish125.livejournal.com]

Again, I'm sorry it didn't work out. I could have screamed when Danny asked if he could come in before 7 to finish up with the robots.

I wanted to meet Geri too...maybe I need to make a trip out your way next.

[suspira20.livejournal.com]

I remember when you would gag at the suggestion of eating collards or okra. It surprises me very much that you are now introducing them to friends! :-)

I enjoyed our breakfast visit on Thursday, and it was a real treat meeting Geri. I wish we'd had more time to get acquainted.

Leaving the hotel, I found that my car's power steering konked out on me... I've been having bad vehicle karma lately - while driving Engine 1 to a woods fire last week, the drive shaft *exploded* leaving us stranded on Roosevelt Highway. A few days after that, my A/C went out, which, apparently is the cause of the power steering failure. The belt that drives the compressor also drives the power steering.

Anyway, I hope your meetings at Ga Tech and in Houston went well. It was great seeing you again!

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

It was wonderful meeting you as well!