Finished my first day of business in town, nice place. Very clean and attractive city, but I'm a bit fazed about the flatness of the landscape, and the number of refineries and oil derricks is.... impressive.
I arrived at my hotel, and they honest to goodness didn't have a room for me. They were super apologetic and taxies me to another hotel over by Reliant stadium that I think was actually built out of the 1970s (as in, the decade itself was load bearing and it had screeching elevators and screaming ice machines added for effect). They sent me back into town for my meeting with a town car which was pretty nice, and then it was business. We breaked for lunch in the building, and the cafeteria has quite a view. It's on the 13th floor of one of Exxon's buildings and has two story tall windows wrapped around so you can see all of downtown. We spent much of lunch admiring the little cranes that dangle the unfortunate window washers off the sides of the skyscrapers.
When I checked into my hotel again, they recognized me, apologized again, and gave me a very nice room. They even sent me a fruit basket with a letter, it was excellent. I'll stay here again, but I'll call that morning to make sure there's a room (it's the Crowne Plaza, check it out).
After work, I was ready to head out to the BB Texas because my clock said I had a couple hours (until I realized I was looking at a PST clock, whoops). So the evening was mostly just working on a presentatin (Death by powerpoint!) for tomorrow and lounging about. Doesn't seem like this will be much of a social visit to the town, everything interesting closes at 5.
