Friday Night Update- My First Night Out
So one of my co-workers (contractor too) is very out going- and from Austin, Texas (another contractor that started at same time is from Ft. Lauderdale, FL). These guys are not like me and didn’t HAVE to move - my dog was my main constraint - so they still have lives in their hometowns.
Anyway, “J” is very cool and just wants to go out for dinner / drinks Fri night (I really did not want to go out as I was doing early gym thing, but it turns out J was going snowboarding at Tahoe next morning so he bailed early too).
But interesting thing was “J” had 2 guys meet us at McCormick and Schmidts (classic happy hour place in any city- Sacto included). These guys were both incredibly smart engineers- one in Nuclear Medicine and one in Maintenance Engineering (knowing when and how much to spend fixing stuff). Oh, they both were living in “J”’s hotel as they were here for 4 - 6 weeks.
But they both were ex- D1 football players- Jake was a 5′10″ 240 nose guard, and Marty was a 6′2″ 250 lb SAFETY (hard to believe). And these guys got a kick out of me, “grandpa” (they were born in 1979) with solid pecs and good “guns” - they wsre poking me to make sure I was not fat LOL.
After my co-workers decided to go home (I should have too), Marty and Jake and I went to a bar called “The Streets of London Pub”. Nothing special to me- but had an amazing time with these 2 guys. Met some girl on her 21st b-day and Marty bought her and her group “Vegas Bombers”- this is just to give you and idea how the evening progressed.
The J and K Streets in downtown Sac are kinda like Spring St. in downtown LA- about 5 years ago. There are lots of cool bars and restaurants opening along there, but there are many failures there too. And the places are LONG ways away from each other - 20 blocks in some cases (and yes, 20 blocks like in LA- 6th Street to 26th is past the 10 Freeway- a long haul).