Albuquerque Balloon Trip

Thursday, 12 October

Business Meeting

Thursday was set aside for Epilogue's annual business meeting. This meant getting up at a businesslike hour. This was less of a problem for me than for some of my coworkers, but it still involved being assembled in the hotel lobby by 8 in the morning to collectively take the van over to the corporate offices. The couple of hours of time-zone shift should have helped, but as I said earlier, I had adjusted by the time I had gotten off the plane anyway. Kristin politely declined the considerate offer to let her sit in on the meeting, on the assumption that she would rather spend the day at the pool. Good call.

I did manage to get some fruit for breakfast from the concierge suite, figuring I'd be looking at doughnuts and coffee when I got to the meeting (an incorrect assumption, it turned out: there were, instead, some quite acceptable bagels). The meeting took the morning and most of the afternoon. Albuquerque offices, having an annual meeting. The closest thing to an adventure arose after the meeting when we trundled into the van to return to the hotel to find that the headlights had been left on and the battery was dead. AAA is conveniently located in the same building, but we waited for the company president to run home for jumper cables. I sort of wonder about a guy who drives a Land Rover but doesn't keep his jumper cables in it.

Mexican dinner

Dinner was in a Mexican restaurant a ways outside of town (at least, it seemed out of town to me, but I'm from -- and accustomed to -- the densely populated East). While better than any example of that cuisine I've ever experienced in Boston, this place wasn't that far ahead of them. To be fair to the restaurant, though, I'm not really used to sitting in a smoking section.

One interesting note was that the "mild" sauce seemed to be substantially hotter than the "spicy" one. I figured that the people who'd ordered mild were just being wimps until I tried a piece of "mild" burrito from the person next to me, and noticed the discrepancy.

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