I'm sticking around in Houston because I have to do some more work. A colleague of mine named Alex just flew in today to join me. He's a pretty interesting guy. He's from Georgia (country not state) and immigrated to Israel about two years ago. Back in Georgia he was a theoretical physicist studying gravitational physics until the collapse of the Soviet Union. After the fall, there was little funding for the sciences and he ended up working in IT for the local Sheraton Hotel in Georgia. Now in Israel, we brought him in to become a reservoir engineer.
He's really smart guy but very quiet and introverted. The only traveling he had done previously was the flight from Georgia to Israel. This trip to the US was a big trip for him. There were some concerns from the CEO that he would be lost traversing the connection and customs in Newark. He said it was actually pretty easy.
When he arrived, he said he was hungry, and I asked what he might want to eat. Out of familiarity, he said maybe MacDonalds. I thought we could do something more exciting and said that if he wanted hamburgers, we can go to Bubba's Texas Burger Shack. Not only did we get a nice jumbo burger, got him to try a Buffalo Burger (with real buffalo meat which is much leaner than most beef patties).
We then did some shopping in Rice Village, and then this is when he surprised me. He asked if South Shepard was nearby. It turns out Alex is a cigar buff and had located some great cigar shops in the Houston area. So off to Cigar Emporium we went. After $220 worth of cigars and a shop owner saying "He really knows his cigars," we are back at home and he is asleep.
Work starts at 1:30 PM tomorrow.
He didn't smoke the cigars inside your boss's house did he? What have you learned about cigars?
ReplyDeleteOma here... bring him to Boise for some snow and Elk meat! Cigars are so stinky!! See you soon...and, why do you start your work day at 1:30 pm?
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