1. I'm sitting in a conference room with a view. Thank God because there are few things worse than a windowless conference room. The bad thing about most business travel is that you don't get to see the places you travel. At least I feel like I'm able to enjoy something real about Cincinnati even if it is just a small view through a window.
2. The office building I'm in appears to have been dropped into the middle of a residential neighborhood. I'm used to views of high rises so this is a nice change of pace.
3. In the rain, most of the trees still look mostly green but there is one lone tree that is defiantly dark red.
4. If I was an architecture buff, I could tell you the style of the homes in the neighborhood across the street. On the right ride are older houses that look kind of like farm houses but without the farms.
5. On the left side the houses are all nearly identical brick rectangles. The only difference appears to be the color of the brick. Some are light brown, some are dark. I live in a high rise and those things tend to be the epitome of cookie cutter. And here I am wrinkling my nose at cookie cutter houses.
6. I'm clearly a hypocrite.
7. I can see a church steeple over the trees not too far in the distance. Beyond that are tree covered hills rising in the mist. It's very peaceful.
8. But I'm in a conference room listening to a relatively boring discussion about option trading strategies. I'm trying to look like in taking detailed notes of the meeting.
9. I wonder if anyone even imagines that I'm actually blogging. I also wonder if many of them even know what a blog is.
10. We had dinner last night in a private room at The Phoenix. It's actually called a "gentleman's club" which just generally cracks me up. If it wasn't so archaic, I'd be offended.
11. Just in case you were wondering, there were no lap dances. It's not that kind of a gentleman's club.
12. The meeting's almost over. Now they're talking about legal issues which is my thing. That just means I don't have to work as hard to listen while I try to think about what I'm writing.
13. Now that the meeting's over, I can eat lunch and look out the window. And I don't have to be surreptitious about it.
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I am up the road in Columbus. And I feel compelled to say that I have hated Cincinnati since I was kicked out of a Concrete Blonde show many, many years ago. Anyway, I'll bet you are looking at Dutch Colonials. They are popular house styles in these parts.
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