Fortunately my choice of San Diego budget hotels offered me the option of choosing a Gas Lamp destination for my week here in Southern California. The All Star game had most of live baseball locked up for the first part of the week. Games resumed all around the league starting Friday. By staying in the downtown section of San Diego, I was easily able to walk over to Padres baseball stadium for games on Friday and Saturday.

My business travel allows me to indulge in some niceties during sports season. Ever the baseball fan, I am very fortunate to be able to combine my love of the sport with my professional responsibilities. As a traveling sales person, I am expected to do my fair share of the “wining and dining” of our customers and potential clients while out on the road.

So, I choose to use professional sports as my sales processing medium. When you’re out on the road as much out of each month as I am you need to find activities which will distract you from the tedium of traveling day in and day out. Summer and early fall allows me to use professional baseball as that diversion.

Given that it is perfectly acceptable to take a client to a ball game, I’m doubly excited when time comes to head out to the ballpark. One aspect of taking customers to games that I truly miss is when it was basically socially acceptable for business folks to take in day games.

I suppose there is still some level of acceptance for this, and every now and again I’m able to actually take in a 1:05pm day game with a client. Not often, but it does happen. Even the schedulers of pro ball realize that it is much harder for today’s working person to take the afternoon off in order to attend day games. The number of scheduled afternoon games has decreased dramatically over the past few decades.

And that’s too bad, as the game has a completely different feel when it is played under the sunshine and billowing clouds versus the bright shiny lights. Of course, I’ll never turn down the chance to see the boys of summer play, day or night!

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Clearly I talk about food a lot in my little web site here. If that offends you, I’m really sorry. My apologies. But when you travel as much as I do, you need to have hobbies. Eating just happens to be one of mine.

When I’m home, I cook for myself. When I’m not eating pizza all weekend of course So, it’s more than just stuffing industrialized, overly processed food stuffs in my gullet in order to fill up my belly (side note: for some strange reason, when I typed that last line I was speaking in the Fat guy character from the Austin Powers Movies “Get in my belly!” Not sure why that cracks me up )

Anyway, I was saying that I like eating. Very much have enjoyed taking up cooking and actually try to do some amount of my own food preparation when I am out on the road. Usually I find that the kitchenettes in the extended suites help in this regard quite a bit. My place here at the Comfort Suites DFW airport hotel has a nice little cook place with all the tools and whatnot as well.

But, I don’t think I’m going to get to use the facilities in my room during this trip because some of my clients are taking me out to this place: Café Brazil!!

Oh, yeah, baby. Have you been to these types of restaurants before? They are the ones where the food servers are ripping around the tables carrying large skewers of meat, chicken, lamb, etc. You have large medallion coin with green on one side and red on the other in front of your plate.

As long as you have the green side facing up, when they come by, they’ll carve you off a slab of whatever they have and serve it up right there, right now. It’s the best kind of place I’ve ever eaten at.

Not sure about this place but, other’s I’ve been to in the past have amazing buffet tables filled with just every imaginable fruit, vegetable and the widest variety of side dishes as well. Oh, my!

Please, some one roll me out and get me back to my bed after this meal. The things we have to do to make our clients happy

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