The week that was...

Hello, Friday... a good thing for most people signaling the start of the weekend and a much needed rest from the week of work. Some of you I know have to force yourself to take some time off whether it be the weekend or not, but that's an issue you must deal with. Weekends for me coming up at the end of August will mean football and working the football games... (ASU on Saturdays and the Cardinals on Sundays). In fact, the human "cheeto" will be working tomorrow outside in the parking lot of Phoenix Stadium from 10 am until 9pm. The occasion? Monster Truck Jam 2009. The forecast for tomorrow you ask...(I'm going to tell you even if you don't ask--that's the beauty of blogging, no one to say shut up! until it's out there) is for sunny skies, 0% precipitation and a high of 110. I tell you this not to evoke pity or sympathy, but to enlighten you. I firmly believe this is the precursor to eternal fire and damnation and I, for one, feel fully prepared for hell just by surviving out here...(I'm joking of course, hell will be much worse). I have my frozen water bottles, towels and bandanas, and fruit and food packed in my coolers for a rigorous test of man against nature... (in which nature wins on a consistent basis). But again, this was part of the deal when I moved out here.

Went to the Jobing.com Arena last night and saw Cirque de Soleil with my E&A group. What a show! If it comes around to your necks of the woods, I urge you to see it. The music and the acts were incredible. Two hours of watching the most limber people I have ever seen. Saltimbanco (the name of this particular show) featured juggling, trapeze, trick bike riding, feats of strength and of course the clown. Jobing.com Arena is across the lot from Phoenix Stadium and surrounded by a mall of stores and restaurants and shops called Westgate in Glendale Arizona. I was there a few weeks ago to work a party for the soccer matches held there... (I was doing ID checks at the north gate. You would figure as a security professional (Easy, don't take yourself too seriously) that I would familiarize my self with the venue and the surrounding area. I thought I did... (I didn't).

When I was in California last Monday, sister and I asked the hotel clerk for a good sushi place in the area...(the one sister knew was closed on Monday). The clerk gave us a place a few miles away and even printed the directions out... 6 minutes in travel time according to Mapquest. Thirty minutes later and ready to scream we tried one last shopping mall and found it! (great persistence, sis). Of course the directions were wrong...(but like Christopher Columbus we found something. Unlike him, we found what we were looking for). The place was great, the sushi was delicious and we saw they had two locations in Arizona... (one in Tempe and one in Glendale). To make a long story short...(something I ALWAYS have trouble with) I found the location in Glendale across Westgate from the Jobing.com Arena. It was on the second floor right in front of where I stood for 2 days and never noticed! (some professional, huh?).

So tomorrow I park cars... (and layer myself with sun block about 300 times). I love the parking lot. Mind numbing boredom and listening to the "veterans" bark about how they are the only ones who know how to park cars. Oh, well. A necessary evil in the quest for green fees...