Back to Good Habits & Leaving Town

Well, I've been gone from here too long.  Yes, I am lazy and it's too easy to just post some dumb little blurb on Twitter instead. I'm MattVolk on Twitter.  I post inane things there on a semi-regular basis.

It appears that starting sometime next week, I will be in Charlotte, NC for the foreseeable future. I think it's at least six months, but who knows. My company is trying to figure out a way to not screw us due to North Carolina's oppressive income taxes. Their top rate is 7.75%, vs a 3% flat rate in Illinois.  I figure by next Wednesday I'll be down there.

I've come up with some goals for the 'adventure' in NC:

1. Never eat dinner at a national chain restaurant. There is too much good local food in this world to settle.
2. Work out at least three days a week. It is way too easy to sit in the hotel room or in a bar a be a lazy bum. I've done it before. Also, I made the mistake of using a scale last week and really didn't like what it said.
3. Learn to program. I have an idea for a useful application for the forthcoming iPad and so I need to learn how to program in Objective C to build it. I haven't done any real programming since college, and that was in Fortran, which is practically a dead language these days, so I have much learning to do.
4. Eat breakfast every day. I'm hoping to end up in a hotel with free breakfast, if it doesn't I'm going to attempt to go get a real breakfast of some sort.

I'm also pondering buying an old Miata. I've always wanted one, and there seem to be a bunch of relatively cheap late '90s cars on EBay. It would be easier to have a beater to drive around down there instead of taking my nicer car down there. It's either a Miata, a really old 3-Series or a Civic SI. The main requirement is a manual transmission.

One thing I won't miss about Chicago:

Comments

[John Hartness]

My top restaurants in town -

1) The Penguin
2) New Zealand Cafe
3) Landmark (24 hours - phenomenal desserts)
4) My house

Lemme know when you get to town. We'll put you in the home game and get you down to G-Vegas with us, too.

[ps]

Yo! I'm not too far from Charlotte (in Atlanta now) when you get down here so drop me a line.

[jjok]

Miata? MIATA? That's like an immediate thump to the sack.

;)

[TripJax]

Hope to catch up with you at some point. I'm in Greensboro.

John, I've really been wanting to try out The Penguin, but whenever I'm in Charlotte it is for work and there is already food served. I gotta get there soon.

I need to get to your game soon to. See you #mastadonweekend

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