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L.A., Behind Me

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on Mar. 10, 2006

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“I love it when a plan comes together”—George Peppard’s cigar-chomping character Col. Hannibal Smith from TV’s “The A Team”

I’ve just finished a fantastic, utterly fantastic trip to Los Angeles.  I was totally reminded of why so many people are so completely fooled by that city and think it’s a city paved with jewels, until they realize it’s just the reflection of broken headlamps in the street.

Oops, got maudlin.  I meant to remain upbeat.  Being in L.A. is emotional for me.  I met with so many people, so many old friends, went to some great favorite places and some new ones as well.

And the clients—oh, how the client meetings went well.  People happy with their Web sites, people wanting more more more development.  It’s all so promising!  There’s Hop Studios news, that’s for sure, but I leave that to the Hop Studios blog to share.

And now I’m in Austin, and I suddenly realize, that even though things went perfectly—no late appointments, no missed connections, a chance to eat sushi and mexican all in one day—that somehow, I managed to miss some of the most important people.  It’s like when you wake up suddenly and realized you’ve completely slept through Sunday.  What, that’s never happened to you? Yeah, right.

How could I not have seen David and Zipporah?  How could I have missed Rob Knox and his BBQ fetish?  And wait, wasn’t there a dinner with Jevon going on at Pete’s?

So, yeah, I could have stayed another dya or twelve in Los Angeles.  In fact, that’s how I ended staying so long in the first place—a week, a month, a year goes by and there’s always one more freind, one more opportunity, one more undiscovered corner of the city waiting for you to visit it.



 
 

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