The Ritz and Mission: Impossible

It's been three weeks of real work for this guy. The first two weeks, I was getting situated at the office, doing administrative work, and completing some small random tasks.

On the morning of Friday, October 7, I got a phone call from a manager in LA saying, "Hey Eric, did you hear you're gonna be coming down to LA next week?"
"Uhhh, yeah, kinda. For some e-mail extraction project, right?"

"No, that project got pushed back. You're coming for a different project. Go ahead a book a flight for Tuesday morning. You'll be down here for about a month."

I'm thinking, "A month? Suhweet!" I get to fly back to SF on the weekends, or in the case of next weekend, Phoenix! That's right, I'm going to visit Drew next weekend. I'm psyched!

So, my third week was in LA. I stayed downtown at the Westin Bonaventure which was old but nice. This week I am "forced" to stay at...drumroll please...the Ritz-Carlton in Marina Del Ray. That's right. The RITZ! (see pic) There's some sort of conference and every single hotel in and around downtown LA is booked. Not too shabby for me!

Another cool thing for a Hoosier is experiencing Hollywood first hand. They are shooting Mission: Impossible 3 on the street right in front of our office. They were converting street signs and billboards to make it look like Hong Kong. No star sighting yet, but it's pretty exciting. All the LA people are just like, "Ehh, whatever."

Hiking tomorrow in Marin County...