It has been a while since I posted, so I am going to do a quick list of what has been going on.
1. My old condo in Atlanta is closing on May 30. Let's just say that the pathetic condition of the real estate market hit real, real close to home. I have learned a lesson: I will never buy a condo in a market like Atlanta/Dallas/Miami/other big city (other than New York) again. While many friends and family members have made a mint in real estate, I seem to have missed that gene. Time to focus on other ways to make my millions.
2. I had dinner with a movie star last night! A former co-worker's wife is an entertainment attorney, and one of her clients was in town. They were nice enough to invite me to dinner out in Brooklyn. Whether or not you think Jon Heder of Napoleon Dynamite and Blades of Glory fame qualifies as a full-fledged movie star (I do...particularly since I got to have dinner with him!), it was really cool to meet him and his wife. I always struggle with what to say to stars when you meet them in such an intimate setting as dinner in a private home. (I realize that sounds like it happens to me all the time, which it doesn't). Do you acknowledge their status? Or, just pretend like they are a new person you happen to have met? I went with the latter. We mostly talked about books we are reading, board games we played as kids, and whether or not we were going to give in and join Facebook.
3. I saw the play Boeing Boeing. Set in the early '60s, it is a comedy farce about a guy who has three flight attendant girl friends. It tells the story about what happens when the airline timetables that allowed him to rotate three girls at once, without any one knowing about the others, are shifted. As technology allows the flight attendants to fly on faster jets, one wacky afternoon, his timetables, and his world, collapses. I couldn't help but think how today, with Blackberries, email alerts, shared Google calendars, and so much "on demand" information, this story could never be written. It relies on one method of ignorable communication, the phone. I thought the play was very funny. Go see it fast, though, because reviews are not good.
4. I find it a bit odd still that it is almost June and the evening temperatures are in the 40s.
5. I am off for some more travel to San Francisco for work.
Happy Memorial Day!
