Dinner with Tobin Smith

Right now I am lounging about in a hotel room in Fort Worth. This bed has very soft sheets. And nice down pillows. I have to check out in an hour, and it saddens me. However, I will get to explore downtown Fort Worth for a few hours.

Why am I doing this? Well, I am in Fort Worth with Anthony who had business thing up here and I had some business to do up here as well, so I tagged along. Then, this weekend, we are hitting the road and driving to New Orleans! I am so excited to be spending the weekend there, I have always wanted to go! It’s about an eight hour drive, but we’re breaking it up into two days, so it won’t be so bad. Plus, we have War and Peace on CD, so we’re going to get some “reading” done on the way. We’re going to be staying with an old friend of mine, a girl I used to wait tables with at Coco’s when I was 16. We were also workout buddies at the UofA and we’ve kept in touch loosely over the years. She’s now a geologist with Shell, and I think it will be a real kick to see her again.

But let’s talk about Tobin Smith, shall we? He’s one of those talking heads on Fox News (on Bulls and Bears), the author of a NYTimes best selling book, and owner of ChangeWave. He was also on this month’s cover of a certain magazine my husband writes for:

We met Tobin and some people from BizRadio at Del Friscos- an old school steak house where everyone in there was clearly loaded. It looked like something out of a mafia movie- everyone in suits, smoky air, steaks. Attention high-priced call girls: this is the place to be. We only stayed for a round of drinks, but it was interesting to get a glimpse of what my husband does- basically he rubs elbows with very wealthy and powerful people. Yesterday he was on the phone with the CFO of an 80 billion dollar bank! I’m jealous. I want to come on these trips all of the time with him!

Well, I’m off to check out of the hotel and to visit the cigar shop down the street.