Visiting tim andrews

Tim andrews is an old co worker from trident. I wanted to see em, I don't only talk to you on the phone and I thought I'd see him on my way up to Washington DC he lives in richmond, virginia.
It wasn't quite a full day's drive from matthew's house. Once I found his house, I looked on Google for Chipotle and all the hotels near chim. Or in the $200 a night range there was A.
Motel 6
On the freeway.  In Richmond, about 10 miles away.
So I drove there. When I went through checking the outlets. I found one outlet that appeared to work in a separate building.
I went and reserved the room. Then I drove over to where the outlet was. And when I plug in the car, it blew a breaker and immediately went into. I'm disconnected alarm.
My room was on the second floor so hooking up. The car was going to be an interesting exercise.
I drove back out to near Tim's house and stopped in. There was a shopping center with the supermarket, gas station and other stores. There was a beach themed themed restaurant or I decided to.  Have dinner.
Tim got off at 8 and came over to see me. But while I wastweeting, it rained really hard so I got a picture of the rain.

Tim seems pretty happy in his new position although he doesn't travel around as much as he had at Trident, it pretty much mirrors The job he held when I was working with him. Tim is a lot happier than Mark seemed to be at his new position.
We had a good time talking.  And about 10 o'clock. I left to drive back to the Hotel.
When I got there, I ran the extension cord through the door and down the column to the car and plug it in and then I turned in 


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