Off my game. \u00a0I am just off my game.<\/p>\n
It has been a series of missteps all day. \u00a0It started when I tried to prove that I could keep working from the road and messed up. \u00a0Then I decided to push through to Tulsa to get within striking distance of Memphis, without checking and discovering that Greyhound has no direct routes from Tulsa to Memphis. \u00a0Seriously, a Greyhound route would take me back to Texas, though 14 stops, resulting in a 17 hour trip to go 400 miles. \u00a0Arrrg.<\/p>\n
Mistakes on a trip like this are painful. \u00a0My essential equipment (which I access all day long) includes a recorder, camera, PC, phone, notebook, adapter case, glasses, sunglasses, and wallet. \u00a0As a result, I have become a cross between Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets and Dustin Hoffman in Rainman to ensure that I never…. never leave any piece of equipment behind. \u00a0Apparently I needed to add hairbrush to the list, because my post shower grooming has taken a turn south without my, now missing, hairbrush.<\/p>\n
Today I met Andrew Jones. \u00a0He is a native New Yorker, cap and all, with a degree in finance. \u00a0He was working as an auditor when he became a casualty of the Wall Street\u00a0debacle\u00a0 \u00a0He left his home for a job in Tuscon where he has worked for the last three years. \u00a0Andrew is now making is way back to NYC with hopes of a new job. \u00a0He was kind enough to share his unique perspective,<\/p>\n
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Which leads me to final piece of ‘stuff’…<\/p>\n
Off mic, Anthony shared his story of the night that President Obama was elected. \u00a0The moving story of his experience in Times Square watching the President’s acceptance speech. \u00a0More, he had his journal from that time and shared it with me. \u00a0Here are his entries from that night and the next day,<\/p>\n
So cool. \u00a0I was very touched and asked him to re-tell his story so that I could record it. \u00a0He graciously did. \u00a0I was in my hotel room before I realized that I managed to botch the settings and the recording was unusable.<\/p>\n This day needs to be over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ‘The American Dream is one thing, but you get tired of dreaming’![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2012\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_0750.jpg\" "\\"Andrews")
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