It's about 10:30 pm in Dallas, but only 8:30 pm where I am in Long Beach. It feels later than 8:30, of course, because I just got here today.
A quick trip to the convention center to put up a trade show booth and lug in boxes upon boxes, then time to look around the downtown area just a touch, then dinner at an obvious chain restaurant. But it wasn't too bad, just not what I had wanted. A barbeque place called Famous Dave's, full of gimmicks and touristy crap...but I could eat it. Unique and tourist-heavy are mutually exclusive terms, I guess.
I'm staying in the Coast Long Beach Hotel, just up the street from the Queen Mary. It's an older place, but not at all bad, especially considering the package rate I got for it; I opted for an airfare/hotel package instead of the normal tactic of getting an inexpensive airfare and finding a convenient hotel near the convention center. I think I saved about 50% acting like a desperately poor tourist; which, of course, describes me pretty well.
Tomorow and Saturday are 10 to 5 days; I leave on Sunday. One day I'll actually listen to my own advice and take an extra day on either end of a business trip to see the sights I'm missing while locked into convention centers or meeting rooms.
I like the weather here. I'm planning on taking some of it with me back to Dallas on Sunday.
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