So you're attending a conference that is way larger than you anticipated for educational software. Apparently it is a big deal and corporate sponsors are waggling their dicks around all week to get more clients to buy more shit to educate more children. I mean, it's a good cause right? To be fair, I like the system so far and think it has a lot to offer and is one of the most easy to use online classroom systems I've seen but still, this shit is ridiculous.
I had two free beers at a famous brewery, free pool, and the chef was more than happy (in kind of a weird way) to make me my vegetarian (vegan) tamales. That shit was good, but he came out from the back room to talk to me specifically about the options he had to make me. I'm the dude with the mohawk and no idea what's going on around me at this conference. After taking my order, he finds me in this cavernous building and delivers my food personally, with an assistant next to him nodding away and smiling. Ten minutes later, he's walking up to me asking how everything is. I see him later wandering around looking for the dude he made a veggie burger for. Great service. It's just weird that all of this is for educational software. BIG DEAL.
While I was waiting for my delicious veggie tamales, I befriended a man ordering a beer. I was sitting at the bar with a salad and a roll and he ordered a beer then someone made a joke nearby or something and it was just too awkward two random dudes at a random conference sitting alone at the bar so we started talking and played three games of pool. He beat me, then scratched on the 8ball, then I beat him. I win I guess. This was all well and good except he kept making comments about the waitress and some other lady at a pool table across the way. He was cautious, I'll give him that. Things like how the waitress was pretty hot and the best thing around considering the conference we were attending. "Not the place for the ladies" or something like that. Who cares if he was more articulate? I certainly don't. Then he was talking about how he couldn't concentrate because of the lady at the other pool table. She was alright I guess but this guy was almost salivating and definitely staring when it wasn't his turn at the table. He wasn't the creepiest guy I've met but definitely someone on the prowl, drinking to get his confidence up to approach "the ladies". He even made awkward jokes with the waitress about the crowd of people at this private event. Meanwhile, I was just like, "give me the beer with the most alcohol" only it sounded more like, "So what else do you have besides this beer that I'm drinking now? (in my head) Oh, ok, not the pilsner, not the wheat beer, not the gross desert stout, ah yeah that one sounds like a lot of alcohol content for my free ticket (out loud) Yeah I'll have that one"
Anyway, this is boring but I felt I should document it.
Also, when I first arrived at Peter's place, there were dudes outside filming themselves beating up another dude. The household believes it was a gang initiation ritual. Sounds about right to me.
