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My job is sending me out to California to attend the Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles. This is pretty cool because I can\u2019t ever say that I\u2019ve been on a work trip such as this before in my life; the last time I skipped town for a work function, it was to like Macon, Georgia where maybe like 12 people from various other satellite offices could meet my entire office when I worked for the state.<\/span><\/p>\n But yeah, work trip to California where they\u2019re paying for the flights and the hotel.\u00a0 You\u2019d think I\u2019d be more excited for this as it\u2019s at the same time a little bit of a forced break from parenting, but I\u2019m not treating this like it\u2019s going to be the greatest experience of my life or anything.\u00a0 It\u2019s still a conference full of other graphic designers and creative types, and most of my zero readers probably know I have a bit of an eyeroll-ey contentious feeling towards that demographic.<\/span><\/p>\n Maybe it\u2019s just that I\u2019ve been doing it for so long that I think most of the bullshit high-up creatives say is full of shit and made up word fluff, or maybe I\u2019m envious of the next generation of creatives and the talent that they bring to the table or maybe a little of both.\u00a0 But the idea of being a conference full of these types isn\u2019t necessarily my first preference of people to surround myself with, but that\u2019s also probably me just being a curmudgeon about everything that\u2019s usually the norm.<\/span><\/p>\n Honestly, the thing I\u2019m looking forward to the most probably shouldn\u2019t be any surprise, but it\u2019s some of the potential food options I\u2019ve scouted out.\u00a0 Years of seeing drive-by reels of restaurants that usually anywhere but in Atlanta are now within reach, at least for ones found in downtown Los Angeles, or as the kids say, DTLA.\u00a0 Yeah, I\u2019ve found a few that are within reasonable distance to where I\u2019m staying at, and as god as my witness, it\u2019s my time to get my hands on shit like hot Cheetos loaded quesaritos, twice-wrapped burritos and trash can nachos.<\/span><\/p>\n However this isn\u2019t to say that I\u2019m completely no-selling MAX.\u00a0 Instead of coasting through the event and scheduling nothing but layup workshops of shit in my wheelhouse, I\u2019ve deliberately gone out of my way to schedule as many workshops and seminars of the things I\u2019m not as versed in, so that I can actually maybe learn some shit and get on the path to some career advancement.<\/span><\/p>\n All the same, as a whole I really am looking forward to this trip as I\u2019m nearing embarkation.\u00a0 It\u2019ll be nice to have a little bit of purely alone time, eat some trash I\u2019ve always wanted to try and maybe I\u2019ll learn something useful.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My job is sending me out to California to attend the Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles. This is pretty cool because I can\u2019t ever say that I\u2019ve been on a work trip such as this before in my life; the last time I skipped town for a work function, it was to like Macon, … Continue reading The work trip<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[120,56,94,37,156,65],"class_list":["post-49619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fat-people","tag-food","tag-graphic-design","tag-job","tag-social-media","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49621,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49619\/revisions\/49621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}