Today our is our last full day in Atlanta. We celebrated by not doing a whole lot. I was a little sick overnight and again did not sleep well. By the time I arose in the morning I was feeling somewhat seedy, sleepy and altogether not great.
When I pulled myself together we decided to walk through the city in the Mid City area along a path we hadn't been before, and I'd found a chain called Staple that theoretically stocked the Kindle DX, so we set off to walk for the fun of it - in the direction of Staple to have some kind of purpose (purpose is important to IT guys so we know exactly what it is we're avoiding).
We walked through what seemed like a fairly dodgy area, with a whole bunch of African Americans talking very loudly and saying things like "yo baby" ... and other things I can't remember. None of them ever said anything bad to us, nor threatened us ... and in fact, no one has the entire time. The closest thing to the sound of a gun has been the very loud back fire from a bus. So in regards to being shot, or raped, or attacked in some kind of gang based violence ... yeah, no.
Once through "the bad lands" we found that Staple was in a shopping centre with Borders (American style) and a whole foods supplier with a yuppie organic bent (I'm not judging harshly, I have terrible yuppie leanings). The whole foods place was amazing. Adam went in first and came out with a banana, reporting it's awesomeness to me. I went in and it was indeed worthy. It was huge, and much like a health food shop in Australia (only literally ten times larger), plus with a huge wine and beer section where I bought a bottle of two dollar fifty wine (come on, I have to try it). They had a huge range, really huge. There was an area where you could fill a tray from maybe twenty five sections of hot food, and you then paid by the plate weight. Cool!
Borders was ... Borders. I had a cup of coffee and got trapped into doing some "work" work because they had wi-fi, and I connected, and our client-programmers from Silverlake were online and I automatically connect to chat when I check my mail and ... yeah, whatever, anyway. The coffee was a chain called "Seattle's Best", which seems either defeatist (to hell with battling with those awesome Atlantan coffee shops, they'll eat us for breakfast) or cunning (they know the competition is crap in Seattle?). The range of books was depressingly similar to Border's Australia, as were the prices.
Anyway, Staples did indeed have the Kindle DX, and after a little consideration I bought it. Hopefully I don't regret it, because it was very expensive.
Since buying it I've put a comic on it (an X-Men, if you must know), which was once of my intended uses (comics, not just x-men), and the display looks great, really clear and nice. I can't really comment much yet, though.
We had a late lunch at Max Lager's, an American (very American) pub right next to our hotel. It's really nice, with great service, nice food (apparently), and a decent range of wine, and an okay one of spirits. It has its own brewery, and has eight beers that range from strong to really strong. Adam enjoyed them, and I enjoyed a Spanish wine (it's what you drink in America, right?).
I tried to have some of my cheap as water wine. Actually, looking in the supermarkets, I'd have to say cheaper than water wine. I failed. We have no cork screw, and neither did the front desk at the hotel. We'll take it with us to Alaska - I'm not wasting the opportunity to have what might be the worst wine in the world.
We've wilted a bit since then, and are now packed and sleepy and getting ready to leave in the morning.
Good night all, next time I write I'll be in Alaska.
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