Alumni Road Trip in Lubbock

I got the second of the two painful drives finished on my way to Lubbock (the first being from Austin to El Paso). Since I got here, I haven't really had the best of luck, but more on that later.

ne of the nice things about this trip throgh Texas are the stops at various steakhouses. With my wife being a non-beef eater, I don't eat it that much at home. So far, I've had my fill of beef and the Triple J Steakhouse and Brewery kept me going with another night of steak.

Out of the three nights, this was defintely the largest showing, althought we are still a little weak in the alumni department. We had 4 alumni, 10(ish) collegians, 1 probationary member AND the chapter sweetheart in attendance. We had a semi-private area which was nice for us, but all that seperated us were some curtains that we were able to draw. This would not have been a problem, except that they had a solo guitar act playing really close by and the curtains didn't have the ability to absorb the sound. I blasted through my presentation during his set break.

The guys were fun to talk to and I had a great time hanging out with everyone. I mentioned earlier that I was experiencing some bad luck. Here is a breakdown:
1.) My cell phone isn't working (hope I can fix that)
2.) Apparently the map of Lubbock and my GPS system don't jive. I got misdirected TWICE going home...and once on the way to the restaurant. A ten minute drive home took 20 minutes. Ugh.

I got a day off today, but I made arrangements to drive to Portales, New Mexico to have dinner with the Theta Phi Colony at Eastern New Mexico University.

NEXT STOP: PORTALES, NEW MEXICO (...unofficially)