campfire anthems

this friday i get to travel again for business purposes.  it should be a pretty interesting trip because i’ll be traveling on the private tour bus for this trip.  we leave mid morning on friday and drive pretty much all day.  the sale i’m going to is in cleveland, tn, and will be the first of its kind.  we are auctioning property in tennessee, but the auctioneer will be in lakeland, fl.  my job, if i choose to accept it, will be setting up a live video feed of the ballroom audience and sending it back to florida, while the florida person sends a live video feed of the auctioneer up to me.  each of us will project the video feed so that it will seem as though everyone is in the same room at the same time.  we tested it out yesterday and there is only about a half second a/v lag.  not bad.  kudos to me by the way.  i’m the one who figured out the best and most efficient way to set this whole thing up.

saturday night, after the sale is over, we are going to pack up the bus again and drive a couple hours away to nashville where we will lodge for the night.  i’m pretty disappointed about the timing of all these events.  we will arrive in nashville between 10 and 11 pm, which means that i won’t even be able to walk around and visit the cool little guitar and music shops that are scattered about.  sunday morning, a fellow associate and i will be heading via airplane back to florida.  the flight is at 6 am.  that means that we should be arriving at the airport around 4 or 4:30 am, which also means that we will probably be getting up around 3 am.  do the math.  that’s about 3 hours of sleep saturday night.  our plane should arrive in tampa around 8:30 sunday morning so i won’t be playing guitar at church this weekend.  i plan on taking a pretty good nap when i finally get back to my house.

if i do get a chance to walk around a little bit saturday night, and pull an all nighter, i’ll need some interesting places to go.  so, if you’ve been to nashville, leave a comment and let me know what to do and where to go.  i’d love your advice.