It may not seem like a short jaunt to the non traveler but doing as much flying as I do nowadays a 4 day trip to Charleston from Las Vegas is nothing.

Friday, I was at the beach by 1pm. Ate and drank at my favorite bar in North Charleston, Madra Rua, and hung out with good friends and cute girls.

It did rain on my parade. Literally. It rained so hard on Saturday that they were doing live weather cut ins on the local news channels. But it was not all bad, Saturday night saw a good home cooked meal, more friends and more drinks.

Charleston is a place that I will live in again. I like it there. I like the people, the lifestyle and just about everything else. My two dilemmas would be finding a job that I could do that would allow me to have a life and which part of town I would want to live in.

Sleep

Read

Bathroom

Stare out the window

Eat at a sit down restaurant

Starbucks

Wander around Hudson News

Bathroom

Read

Stare out the window (now at sunrise)

Read

Board Plane

Fly away

i'm being eaten alive by mosquitoes as i write this but hey, at least there are mosquitoes.
i am on vaction. 4 days off..
so i'm back in charleston.
this is why i work so hard. so one day i can have more time here in this place.

Yes I watch CNBC. Granted I'm no Gordon Gekko nor Bud Fox but I like to think I am slowly moving way up the financial ladder.

CNBC showed an hour long program on McDonald's. How it started, where it is today, where it's going, the bumps in the road, etc. I found it informative and interesting.

(Did you know a McDonald's franchise could cost $1 million?)

What I found very interesting and more importantly, encouraging, was the lower third towards the end of the show that told you you could already buy this program on DVD from CNBC's store. I'm sure it will be available on itunes in the near future if it hasn't been already.

I also liked the fact that CNBC earlier had video's up online in a special section for the program and also had the reporter's bio, facts, etc.

This was an excellent feature story and used new media pretty damn well.

In case you've been living on Mars David Beckham made his US debut as a member of the LA Galaxy Saturday night against Chelsea FC of the English Premier League.

All the stars came out in LA. Eva Longoria, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Katie Holmes, and even the Governator himself.

The entire game was a media spectacle to see just when Beckham would get into the game and how he would do. The funniest thing about this entire ordeal is that the last few seasons Chelsea would have been the big story.

The Home Depot center was sold out and then some. Of course what none of the media will talk about is that Home Depot center would have been sold out anyway because Chelsea was playing.

Chelsea has some of the best players in the World playing for them. Terry, Lampard, Joe Cole, Shevchenko, Drogba, and Ballack.

Granted if it was just Chelsea vs LA the media attention would not nearly be as spectacular and I probably wouldn't be wiring this unless of course Landon Donovan and the boys pulled off an amazing upset.

So welcome to America Beck's. Get healthy and make me a believer.

If you're a stockholder in Continental Airlines or Delta Airlines you had a pretty good week. Both companies reported better than expected earnings. This comes the same week that the Wall Street Journal and other media outlets reported that the month of June has been one of the worst for airline passengers.

Granted Continental didn't give a great outlook which sent shares down because investors weren't impressed with the percieved future. So I guess that could be a consolation prize to those of us who sat in a middle seat from Newark to Vegas and were stuck on the runway for an hour before take off because of the back up.

I've flown a lot of airlines latley and I have to say that (knock on wood) I don't think Continental is all that bad.

(I don't think Delta is all that bad either. United sucks balls though)

However, apparently during the month of June it was the worst year for delays and cancellations. There were also more flights than ever before and most going into the same places such as JFK.

I can contest to some of this. I flew a lot in June but was never cancelled. I was delayed and rushed to get on a plane. I also know people who waited a day or so in an airport to catch their flight. It was bad and I assume it could have been handled better but then again maybe not.

Airlines are in it for the money. They are public companies trying to make a profit. Some did as you could see when they reported earnings to Wall Street. However I find it ironic that within the same week that they report good earnings to investors it is also was reported that this was one of the worst travel months on record.

Not a good sign for travelers such as myself but I suppose a good sign for investors who stay at home.

Ok corny but hey, it's Transformers the movie and this time Optimus Prime doesn't die.

The effects are sick the action great and for once Michael Bay actually made characters, including the robots, people or things you care about. Where was this in Pearl Harbor or The Island I don't know.

Transformers was a good time. Everything I could have asked for in a summer movie. Big explosions, witty lines, a hot chick or two and scenes that made you wonder ' wow, how long did that take to render?'

Go see it. It's worth it especially on the big screen.