I Think I Got The Bends

I think I almost got the bends today.  I went to lunch with a client at the Columbia Tower in Seattle, and his office is above the 70th floor.  Call me a yokel if you  like, but 70TH FLOOR!  I have actually never been higher than maybe about 40 stories high in a man-made structure.

Anyway, we went to lunch at the top of the tower, which is on the 75th floor, and I forgot my phone at the concierge desk when they were validating my parking.  So after saying good-bye to my client, I went from the 75th to the 40th floor.  Then got out and went from the 40th floor to the Lobby.  It was at this point I realized I forgot my phone.

So then I went back up to the 40th floor on the same elevator I’d just come down in.   It was at this point I started feeling like I might lose my lunch.  Then back up to the 75th floor.  Once I had my phone, I had to go back down 75 floors again to the Lobby, then down 5 floors to the floor I parked on in the parking garage.

I’m pretty sure I was all the way back to Redmond before I started getting any reassurance that I was going to be able to keep my lunch!  That was definitely some lingering nausea!

Other than that, it was a great experience.  Doing the work that I do (mostly online via e-mail), I very rarely get to actually meet the people I do work for.  So this was a real treat.  This client of mine is a great Seattle Criminal Defense Lawyer with a very unique outlook and a great way of going about his profession.  I work on his website regularly and his blogs occasionally, and he really is one of my favorite clients.

Anyway, I told my sister and a friend about having lunch up there today and they both said, “Oh yeah, I’ve been up there for….”  Fill in the blank….  Oh well, now I’ve been up there as well.

And it was very interesting/odd to look DOWN on the Space Needle.  (I’m such a bumpkin.)