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I slept like shit last night. The desert air here is so damn dry. First I tried sleeping with the windows open because the AC was drying me out, but that didn't work so I turned the AC back on and kept waking up every hour. This is not going to be a good week. I may stop at Target and buy a small humidifier for the room. The one advantage to being on the road with my own car. They make little tiny ones where you can insert a water bottle into the base. That would be perfect for me.

Left the house yesterday around 9:45 and made it to Reno in 3 hours and 35 minutes. Always nice to make this drive when there is no snow nor traffic. I just cruised right along. I got all checked into the hotel then walked the .3 miles to the client. Dear god I am glad I decided to go to them last night instead of this morning. It took us over two hours to get the room situated, make sure there was network access, get me a machine that would work on the projector, etc. They use dumb terminals for all their employees and we couldn't get one to talk to the projector. Then they had to track down network cables because they don't have any wireless in their building. Fiasco. I finally finished up with them around 4.

Came back to the hotel and decided to head downtown for dinner. While I was on my way down there B texted me. She got some really bad news last night. Her grandmother has been in remission from breast cancer for the last 15 years and they just found out last night it's back. This put her in a real bad depression because she worries she will get it. It's hit a number of the women in her family and this made her all worried about the future. I tried to console her but there's only so much one can do.

I ended up at the El Dorado in their nice restaurant and ate like a king. I basically blew my entire meal budget for the week but it was so worth it. I had foie, a beautiful wedge, a waygu burger, and chocolate orange pot de creme. All with a butterscotch martini. DAMN it was a fine meal. I got back to the room about 7:30 and relaxed. Did some file updates, caught up on emails, and basically did a whole lot of nothing. I tried once more to talk to B but it wasn't happening.

Fell asleep around 10:30 and then proceeded to deal with everything mentioned above. Time for breakfast and then I don't have to leave here until 8:30. Only 2.5 hours to kill.