Postcard from Miami

[Winsome]

Ok, really really bored here. Basically just killing time until 5:00 p.m. local time, at which point I can slink off to the hotel and abuse my expense account. I *should* have all my meetings done, but it is still bad form to leave early, in case someone actually wants to meet with me of their own free will (hard to believe that would happen).

Miami is friggin' expensive. And when a New Yorker says that, it means something. I'm shacked up at the Ritz-Carlton on Key Biscayne, which is pretty posh in an intimidating sort of way. It's the kind of place where all the doormen have earpieces so that as you walk through the hotel they can address you by name: "Welcome back, Mr. Winsome!" "Did you have a nice evening Mr. Winsome?" "Drunk already, Mr. Winsome?" You have to tip people just to get through a door. The cheapest breakfast on the room service menu is $24.00, and that is basically for coffee and a muffin. Unbefrigginleavable. I'm thinking of walking the halls offering two muffins and a newspaper for $20.00 cash. People would probably jump at it, but I'd probably get taken down by the earpiece people.

Managed to get down to the Everglades on my free time. Alligators. Birds. Swamp. Nice and all, but I'm basically a city boy. The gators seem awfully docile, but for all I know that was just their way of trying to sucker me in.

The most important thing I've learned: Our Miami office has much better Internet blocking than our New York office. I can't even get on Thottbot, and the official WoW site is out of the question. Lone Star Forums though? No problem.

33 minutes to go. Bleh.

[Waibanez]

Ok, really really bored here. Basically just killing time until 5:00 p.m. local time, at which point I can slink off to the hotel and abuse my expense account. I *should* have all my meetings done, but it is still bad form to leave early, in case someone actually wants to meet with me of their own free will (hard to believe that would happen).

Miami is friggin' expensive. And when a New Yorker says that, it means something. I'm shacked up at the Ritz-Carlton on Key Biscayne, which is pretty posh in an intimidating sort of way. It's the kind of place where all the doormen have earpieces so that as you walk through the hotel they can address you by name: "Welcome back, Mr. Winsome!" "Did you have a nice evening Mr. Winsome?" "Drunk already, Mr. Winsome?" You have to tip people just to get through a door. The cheapest breakfast on the room service menu is $24.00, and that is basically for coffee and a muffin. Unbefrigginleavable. I'm thinking of walking the halls offering two muffins and a newspaper for $20.00 cash. People would probably jump at it, but I'd probably get taken down by the earpiece people.

Managed to get down to the Everglades on my free time. Alligators. Birds. Swamp. Nice and all, but I'm basically a city boy. The gators seem awfully docile, but for all I know that was just their way of trying to sucker me in.

The most important thing I've learned: Our Miami office has much better Internet blocking than our New York office. I can't even get on Thottbot, and the official WoW site is out of the question. Lone Star Forums though? No problem.

33 minutes to go. Bleh.

It's cus our forums is teh Roxxor...Hope youre enjoying yourself Winsome :D

[Thibor]

I'll be down in that area in June! Moving to Ft. Pierce baby.

And yes Miami is more Expensive then NYC, then again you are staying at Key Biscayne, the place where P-diddy and others have their palaces.

You should get a cab and go hit Coconut Grove, cheap booze and food and good looking women to look at.

[Winsome]

I'll be down in that area in June! Moving to Ft. Pierce baby.

And yes Miami is more Expensive then NYC, then again you are staying at Key Biscayne, the place where P-diddy and others have their palaces.

You should get a cab and go hit Coconut Grove, cheap booze and food and good looking women to look at.
Cheap booze and food are always good. I've been sneaking off the Key to find Cuban dives and pizza joints (actually found a good pizza place on Key Biscayne - Archie's or something like that. On the other side of the spectrum, "Sir Pizza," which I won't even try to describe).

Good looking women? Eye of the beholder, I suppose. Let's just say that my tastes run in the NYC sort of direction - and that Miami is just another animal entirely. What Miami considers good looking is freakin' me out. A lot of makeup and body types that seem to be the work of surgery, fanatic fitness regimins, tanning machines, or all of the above. Give me a NYC girl any day. I'm not saying NYC doesn't have its share of freakishness, but everyone down here seems to be working way to hard to chase some out-of-control ideal. Not that I could compete anyway. My idea of exercise is playing World of Warcraft, which does not lead one to washboard-like-abs.