Dinner Tuesday night was awesome. I met up with my friend Dan from Aspect and his wife Jeanette. I had been looking forward to seeing him for weeks. I knew his would be the only friendly face I would see. We ended up going to Mulate's. I had red beans and rice, ice tea and chocolate carmel cheesecake with pecans for dessert. I, my friends, am a very lucky girl. My food was excellent, and so was the company. Honestly, I like red beans and rice. I'm going to have to figure out how to make it here. I can't imagine it would be too difficult. It came with a huge piece of sausage. It also seemed to have chicken in there somewhere. In the end, I could only eat half. It was a shame, because it was so good. I ordered dessert because Jeanette ordered dessert, and if I'm going to have dessert, I'm not going to share. Needless to say it was delicious, and I didn't eat it all. I didn't think I would. But, I wanted to say that I at least tried. And I did. I tried. We walked and talked a bit after dinner, and then I went back to my room. I remembered that I had written out my postcards Monday night, so I decided to go down to the front desk and buy my stamps. Karen (was in class with me on Monday) found me on the way back to my room and asked me if I wanted to get a glass of wine with her at the bar. I said yes. I figured that I had nothing else better to do, and why should I stay up in my room when I could watch the election results downstairs with everyone else. The two of us ended up flirting with the bartender for more than two hours. I told them all about how my cousin wears my clothes and good things happen. I wear my clothes and nothing happens. The bartender said

Is she as hot as you?

Way to shut a girl up. I had no idea what to say to that. I know I'm cute. I know I am. Beautiful? Hot? Yeah, ok, you must be on drugs. However, no one since the rocker has said that to me, so I accepted said compliment after about 10 minutes of silence. At 11:30, I finally crashed, and went to bed. I had an awesome evening, and I couldn't wait for session in the morning.

I have dinner company. How cool is that. Hopefully I will have a review for you when I get back.

The nice man around the computers got me connected to a cable. Now I can blog on my own machine! YEAH! Too bad I forgot my power supply. Tomorrow, I'm set! I know what to do, and how to do it! I hopefully will be connected at the hotel tonight. Won't that be nice? I decided not to go to general session. I bet I live to regret it, but oh well. I think tomorrow I'll be going to the yarn store during general session. Doesn't that sound like fun? Lunch is soon, and I'm hungry after my chese sandwich for breakfast.

I'm currently missing general session. I hate general sessions usually. The are really loud and rah-rah. I'm not in the mood for rah-rah. Last night I had another awesome dinner. I went to some resturant on Magazine Street. I wish I could remember what it was called. I had this incredible crab au-gratin. ok, YUMMY. I can't even explain, but i think it was crab, some sort of cheese and a few odd mushrooms. It was so rich I couldn't finish it. I had Pecan Crunch Ice Cream for dessert. It was to die for. Last night was the second night that I got free dessert. I like that... Free dessert. Apparently, it is a southern tradition. If a single woman goes to have dinner alone, the resturant gives her free dessert. Who would have known? I didn't. But, I do like this tradtion. But, I do have to get the girl at the desk in the hotel to help me pick less expensive dinner options. I've spent my entire food allowance for the day each night at dinner... and that is with free dessert. And, I don't drink. There have to be some cheaper places to go. God I hope so. Maybe tonight. Todays morning sessions were good. I thought the first, Dreamweaver Killer Tips was excellent. I learned 4 or 5 things that I didn't know about. I can't wait to start using them. The second, ColdFusion Performance Tips and Tricks was much harder for me to follow. But I did get some interesting things to try. He really suggested indexing your queries. It's something I've been thinking of trying, but haven't. I'm going to as soon as Renuka gets back from vacation. This afternoon I have two hands on trainings, and I'm really excited. I am ready to learn about optimizing my web graphics, which is my next session. I guess I'd better go to general session. I might be missing something.