Marriot in Atlanta

I'm spending tonight at the hilton in atlanta and I wandered across the street to check out the bar at the marriot since I'm too tired to go far. This building is amazing. There's a 50 storey atrium with rooms around the edges, inward tiering balconies and a column of glass sided elevators in the middle. Imagine an ice cream cone upside down lined with rooms and squashed a little so its cross section is more oval than round... Then make it 500 feet tall and take the elevators up to the 41st floor (higher ones need keys).
I don't know why but elevators like that scare the crap out of me. I can stand on the eiffel tower and look down or around no problem, but put me in a glass elevator in an atrium and when it starts getting near the roof my knees get weak and I feel panic rising... Something about looking up and seeing how close I am to the roof, when I'd stand on the high diving board at school, I was fine as long as I didn't look up.
I took this one because there's nothing like irrational fear with an underlying certainty of safety :o)
So I'm having a much needed Patron silver (the guy poured me about a triple shot by mistake) and calming down, my camera's in my car in a parking lot somewhere so no you'll have to use your imagination or come visit. It may sound odd but seriously, if you're in Atlanta, check out the marriot atrium, makes the Luxor seem like a bit of a joke... And that's saying something...

Dinner was a small local southern food cafe, not bad but nothing special. The south isn't as bad as Scotland, land of deep fried cadburys creme eggs, but they do love their fried food. A chef friend in mississippi has the motto "if you fry it, they will buy it" and although it's not intentional and probably mostly due to my mom, I don't like fried food that much.

Tomorrow- driving to Dallas... 800 miles of fun :o)

I have berkley basic physics lectures on my ipod (Physics for Presidents, free podcast!), maybe by next time I write, I'll have a little better understanding of electromagnetism...