the Thai adventure

Last night I was beat.... tired.....

After a day I knew was going to be interesting because of challenges with work... went in... was unsuccessful in contacting our vendor... and then went to go visit another partner that we do outsourcing to.

Spent some time there, met lots of people, talked about what I had in store for my group and where the data centers were heading towards, and then took them out to a nice lunch.

Meanwhile... things were going south for the colo project.... fortunately, Reliance was right around the corner from where I had lunch, and I made a stop on in and I talked to their big boss of the area...about the challenges with the project and what needed to be done to clear things up and make sure there was good communication moving forward.

After that.. that brought us back to the office at about 4:20... check email.. .and then talk to another internal person about data centers, what help I would need from him and his group, and what I hoped DCIS could provide in the coming months and years.

and that took me to almost 6..... then my guy wanted to be dropped off first on the way back to the hotel till almost 7:30 due to rainy traffic.


so..... I was tired... alone.... didn't really want to go out and forrage for food...and had heard that the thai restaurant in the hotel was supposed to be very good.

It was drizzling a bit so I walked on through... took a look at the menu to see if the things that I wanted were on there... then proceeded to ask for the lonely table for one. It was a quaint little restaurant with a bit of a tiki feel. set on top of a small body of water, wicker chairs with nice cushions to go with the white tablecloth setting.

I started with a drink which was something called a blush.... I realized after I got it in a martini glass that it was pink, and probably a chick drink. Lychee juice and pineapple? I don't remember, but it was pretty good.

I ordered what I would have ordered out of our favorite places in the US... Tom Kah, and yellow currey.

the Tom Kah came, and it was quite tastey.. a little more creamy than I'm used to, and definitely more creamy and sweeter than my biggest goose would have liked, but it was pretty good nonetheless. It had a considerable amount of foliage in there which I didn't take, and just left it in the bowl.

So... it was rainy on the way in... and I knew since leaving the office, that there were some storms going on.... lightning flashes on the horizon, but I couldn't tell where they were coming from, or hear the thunder over he din of the city.

all the sudden .... a creaking and a crashing to my right... I had been a little desensitized by the fact that the city is loud, the kitchen was loud, and the thunder and lightning were loud as well.

A large branch of a tree, what I could only estimate as probably 3-400 lbs of foliage crashed down on top of our side of the building and in the water adjacent to the restaurant. bits and pieces of the tree and branches scattered through bits of the restaurant and caused quite a stir.

I was not next to the area, but somehow ended up on my feet regardless.

After about 10 minutes, then I settled back down to my meal.... yellow curry with prawns and pineapple, and a side of rice. Not really what I was expecting, but luckily I wasn't that hungry either. the waiter scooped me some rice, and poured 2 scoops of the curry over the rice. I took a bite, and was met again with a lot of folliage.. and it was a little bit spicy as well. Maybe my appetite was shaken a little bit by the commotion, but the food just wasn't really what I was hoping it would be.

I signed for the bill, staggered up to my room... and settled on in... exhausted.