Jeff Billimek’s Journal

I woke up around 6am today and went into work, leaving Craig asleep. I worked for half a day. Originally I was going to come into work this afternoon because the original plan was to take revenue pipeline to production this evening. There was a problem yesterday which caused us to push our “go-live” date to tomorrow.

When I got back home around noon, Craig was awake playing on the computer. We left around 12:30 for lunch. I took Craig to Smokey Bones off Ashford-Dunwoody road. I had a full rack of baby-back ribs. It was truly delicious! During lunch we watched the Kasparov vs. X3D Fritz chess match on ESPN2. I was surprised to see ESPN covering a chess match.

Back home I watched a little more of the chess tournament while Craig played on the computer.

Around 3:30pm we left and drove to Phipps Plaza mall to see the special director’s cut of Alien. It wasn’t too exciting. I’ve seen it before but it was nice to see it on the big screen. I like Alien’s better.

After the movie we walked around the mall for a while before going back home.

Back home we played Warlords a little (I think I’m seeing a pattern here). We used to play an older incarnation of this game as well as ‘Heroes of Might and Magic‘ back when we were in high school. It was a lot of fun to play in large groups because of the ‘hotseat’ feature in which players trade-off taking turns.

We were going to head out for dinner around 8pm but I convinced Craig that we should delay because Survivor comes on at 8pm and my VCR broke so I can’t tape it. We watched Survivor and then left for dinner.

For dinner we went to Copeland’s around 9pm. I had a large salad with honey bacon mustard dressing. It was pretty good.

Back home Craig packed up his bags and I took a power nap.

Around midnight Craig and I left for a gentleman’s club called Mardi Gras that’s actually pretty close to where I live. When we got there, we had to valet park. There was a $10 cover per person. We found a table and ordered some drinks. Craig got a beer and I got a Red Bull & Vodka, the cost of both together was $19. Mardi Gras is a full-nudity club with a few stages. Craig went up to the main stage to tip a well-endowed dancer. When he got back he complained that unlike San Antonio, the dancers here don’t do a special private dance for you when tipping them. After observing another table get a lap dance, Craig commented that there doesn’t seem to be much contact - possibly due to them being totally nude. Craig theorized that if they were wearing something the lap dances may contain a little more contact.

The dancer that Craig tipped from earlier came by and Craig ordered a lap dance. Her routine was pretty much like all of the others - very scripted and predictable. I think she had implants.

We didn’t stick around for much longer after that. Craig was pretty disappointed in the ‘quality’ of the place but I can’t really judge since I don’t have enough experience with that sort of thing. It may just be a difference between Georgia and Texas.