Friday, September 01, 2006
The Buckeye State
I had a quick trip to Columbus, Ohio for an advisor retreat at the end of July. I arrived there late Friday night and left early Sunday morning. And since the retreat was all day Saturday, there wasn’t too much time to see any of the area.
Another person from HQ was at the same retreat doing some computer training, so she and I shared a cab from the airport to the hotel and back again.
A couple interesting things that I learned from Ohio was what a Buckeye is. I’ve heard of the Ohio Buckeyes for a long time and a lot of the people there are crazy for the Ohio State Buckeyes , but I never knew what an actual Buckeye was. It’s a tree—that has acorn like ‘buckeyes’. They are round and look something like an eyeball.
Several places had ‘buckeye candy’. It was chocolate with a peanut butter center and really delicious.
We went to an old town area of Columbus that had a wonderful German Restaurant. It was a buffet and they had several different kinds of sausages and lots of sauerkraut. Their specialty was Cream Puffs—great big cream puffs of all different flavors. I had a chocolate/almond one—it was wonderful.
The other thing that happened in Ohio (or sometime before) was my computer caught a nasty virus. It slowed my computer down so much that I would type a sentence and wait for a full minute before it would type out. When I tried to run the antivirus program—it took six hours to check the computer. So I had to send my computer to the IT Department at HQ for a couple weeks. I was really lost without it. Then when it came back, every time I would leave it for 10 minutes it would shut down, so I kept loosing some of the things that I was working on. I think I’ve mostly got it back to how I want it. There are still a few things I would like on it. I guess I’ll have to get my personal computer nerd (Richard) to help.
Another person from HQ was at the same retreat doing some computer training, so she and I shared a cab from the airport to the hotel and back again.
A couple interesting things that I learned from Ohio was what a Buckeye is. I’ve heard of the Ohio Buckeyes for a long time and a lot of the people there are crazy for the Ohio State Buckeyes , but I never knew what an actual Buckeye was. It’s a tree—that has acorn like ‘buckeyes’. They are round and look something like an eyeball.
Several places had ‘buckeye candy’. It was chocolate with a peanut butter center and really delicious.We went to an old town area of Columbus that had a wonderful German Restaurant. It was a buffet and they had several different kinds of sausages and lots of sauerkraut. Their specialty was Cream Puffs—great big cream puffs of all different flavors. I had a chocolate/almond one—it was wonderful.
The other thing that happened in Ohio (or sometime before) was my computer caught a nasty virus. It slowed my computer down so much that I would type a sentence and wait for a full minute before it would type out. When I tried to run the antivirus program—it took six hours to check the computer. So I had to send my computer to the IT Department at HQ for a couple weeks. I was really lost without it. Then when it came back, every time I would leave it for 10 minutes it would shut down, so I kept loosing some of the things that I was working on. I think I’ve mostly got it back to how I want it. There are still a few things I would like on it. I guess I’ll have to get my personal computer nerd (Richard) to help.
# posted by bjm @ 8:02 PM 
