RECHARGING THE BATTERIES

It's amazing what a couple days away from here will do to you. I went to Charleston the last few days to visit Marcus and Jim, two friends that recently moved to one of the coolest cities I've been to in a long time. Though I didn't get to spend much time with Marcus, because he had to work, I still had a blast.

I've been to Charleston before, but that time we were trapped inside a building downtown, and the only thing we did was drive down King Street to the Battery, then decide we wanted to go home. This time, I got to see a lot of the sites that I wanted to see.

Some of the highlights:
* Going to the movies with Marcus and paying less money because the girl selling tickets thought I was in high school.
* Taking a shortcut that put us exactly in the same spot as where we left the original road.
* Hanging out with Marcus' friends from the Post and Courier and seeing he has friends that don't work there now too.
* Having good times with old friends.

Now I'm back home. I guess I'm ready to go back to work. But the pull of the big city -- a place like Charleston, or Indy, or Dallas -- is starting to attract me mpore and more.