Next week we have a sales meeting, and I have three hours of presentations scheduled (since I had control of the schedule, I was able to not do 15 hours of presentations in 3 days like the last meeting). Naturally, I am way behind on preparations. This is no surprise. So I am working the weekend. But why is it that it takes at least 15 – 20 hours to prepare the slides for 3 hours? I swear...
I travel a lot for my job, so I try to NOT fly when I don’t need to for personal things. However, sometimes it is essential. Alas, as it is often around holidays or other “busy” times, I often get to see some insanity. Today is one of those days. First, with the merger between US Airways and American Airlines, my Star Alliance gold lever no longer gets me perks on US Airways...
When we first moved to Arizona, I splurged and bought a Tivo. It was an old one, and it was wonderful. Worked great, super intuitive interface, great integration. Back then it had to call Tivo every day to get the latest listings. In 2006 or so, we went HD, and upgraded to a Series 2 HD, with the cable cards. With the exception of a failed HD in 2012, replaced via Weaknees, it has been wonderful...
(well, poopies. This is post # 300) I travel a lot for work. (well, usually, when we don’t have restrictions). This morning, I was taking the early flight, PHX to SJC, easy 1:40 hop, but I had a day chocked full of meetings, so I took the 6:25 flight. Ugh. That means I needed to wake up about 3:30 and get my butt out the door. Ok. I get my pastry and starbucks coffee, and sit in the gate...