{"id":1041,"date":"2006-10-27T23:12:17","date_gmt":"2006-10-28T06:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2006-10-27T23:12:17","modified_gmt":"2006-10-28T06:12:17","slug":"i-made-it-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1041","title":{"rendered":"I made it back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I meant to post something about my dinner last night, but I went to the weenie little workout room in the hotel instead. Met a kid who was interviewing with Toyota. Guess there&#8217;s a headquarters in Cincinnati somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>The conference in Lexington (we have no nightlife), KY was over for me after the morning sessions, so I drove back to Cincinnati in the middle of the day. I tried to go on a tour at the Toyota production plant in Georgetown, KY on the way back but the tours were all full for the day. I could have seen where they put my ma&#8217;s car together if I was early. It was raining pretty hard by the time I got back to the Cincinnati airport area where I was staying at the Holiday Inn, so I didn&#8217;t do all that much. I did go out to dinner at an unnamed restaurant suggested by my foodie sister.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a title=\"Montgomery Inn\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/montg_inn.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Montgomery Inn\" id=\"image1039\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/montg_inn.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I had the ribs and duck and they weren&#8217;t the best I&#8217;ve had. Both were a little overdone and I think the barbecue was of the variety that tries to mask mistakes in smoking by using a lot of sauce.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a title=\"Ribs and duck.\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/duck_n_ribs.jpg\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a title=\"Ribs and duck.\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/duck_n_ribs.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ribs and duck.\" id=\"image1040\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/duck_n_ribs.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The duck was pretty good after I got through the dry bits.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I decided to drive around and maybe see some of the sights. Unfortunately the rain didn&#8217;t abate and when I got to the place suggested by the hotel staff, I found a mall with paid parking. I got quite lost on the way back. First I accidentally crossed into Cincinnati by accident, and then I followed Route 8 until I found I was on a two-lane road following the Ohio river into the dark countryside. DARK COUNTRYSIDE. What ever happened to populating the picturesque riverbank with McMansions? Fortunately, I found the end of road and a way back to civilization.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I got up this morning at 5:45AM EDT, which is 2:45AM PDT (the timezone that matters to me) so I spent most of the day incoherent. I went to go visit my sister and she got to hear my cursing regarding the flat tire I had and other things I had to complain about. She thought it was prudent to take me to Target and Famous Footwear. Nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I meant to post something about my dinner last night, but I went to the weenie little workout room in the hotel instead. Met a kid who was interviewing with Toyota. Guess there&#8217;s a headquarters in Cincinnati somewhere. The conference in Lexington (we have no nightlife), KY was over for me after the morning sessions, so I drove back to Cincinnati in the middle of the day. I tried to go on a tour at the Toyota production plant in Georgetown, KY on the way back but the tours were all full for the day. I could have seen where they put my ma&#8217;s car together if I was early. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1041\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I made it back!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}