Hey everyone! I'm back from my two-week trip to Memphis for training. I actually got back Friday night, but this is the first opportunity I got to get online. Usually I love getting away from home for an extended period of time, but this trip was most definitely the exception. There's something about being held prisoner in a shitty hotel for two weeks that actually makes me long for home.

I've had many people ask me, of course, how it went. Well, I have to split my answer between the class and the rest of the experience. I found the class to be rather helpful, if not a little slow. On the other hand, time spent outside of class was nothing short of awful. There were only a couple of occasions when I actually escaped from the confines of the hotel, but I eventually had to come back anyway. On one occasion, I checked out the only restaurant within walking distance: New Super Buffet. A+ for name, A for food variety, and C+ for food quality. There was an episode with trying to get my per diem check cashed, multiple stories about trips to Wal-Mart in Mississippi, and then there was the excursion down to Beale Street one night with random businessman that I met in the hotel lobby. Although I could bore you with all the intricate details of the trip, and even more so, details about the guy I had to room with, I won't - mostly because I'm lazy.