Columbus? No thank you.

I went to a great training. Sorry, no photos, forgot the digi. Learned about soils, rocks, mines and vegetation in the east. Learned about the city without a soul, Columbus, Ohio. I am SORRY if you are from Columbus, but that place is a large boner in the eyeball of the country. Seriously, there must be people there, the place is full of buildings, but there is no downtown. I mean, there is an area called downtown, but it lacks all of the fundamental elements of a good downtown. 1. People or I should say people other than the people that are begging for money. 2. Shopping 3. Dining clarify - other than Wendy's 4. Something to look at 5. Friendly sales clerks that aren't on drugs and who don't abuse you when you are trying to buy a freaking watch.

There is just something really freaking weird about that place. I think all of the business people use underground vacuum tubes like the ones at the bank to mysteriously transport themselves from suburbs to work and back never having to go outside. Luckily my hotel was attached to a mall, if you can call it a mall. It was about as nice and diverse as the Helena mall with one less department store. Thank god on the third day we got to go into the country to look at some mines or I would have spent 5 whole days inside a building - gulp kill me. I did venture outside a couple of times, only to rush back inside for fear of my life. They told us not to go outside alone, I didn't know it meant DURING THE DAY! It was lunch hour for christ's sake.

The one good thing was that I worked out in a very nice gym and caught up on my cable. Oh and watched the White Sox whoop up on my darling Andy Pettitte. Sweet, sweet Andy.

The moral of the story is - boys and girls, next time someone asks you if you want to go to Columbus, you say "No thanks, I just had my stomach pumped."