Back Home from Los Cabos. And Phoenix.

Los Cabos Travelog #Ω
Back home - Mon, 13 May 2024, 8:30am

Last night we got home from Phoenix. ...Which is where we went immediately after our Los Cabos Mexico trip. Yes, I'm so far behind on my blog that not only haven't I finished journaling about stuff I did in Los Cabos I haven't even started on our 3-day weekend in Phoenix. Oh, and I still have several days worth of stuff from our trip to New Zealand in April that's stuck in my blog backlog. 😅

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"Wow, it's kind of cool out." That was my first thought upon getting home— where "home" is defined as walking out of the airport in San Jose last night. The temperature was maybe in the low 70s at 6pm after hitting a high of about 76 earlier in the afternoon. That felt cool. For the past 9 days that been the temperature at, like, 4am.

After dinner it felt downright cold. The temperature had already dropped to the low or mid 60s. I turned on the heat in the car. Later last night I curled up under the blankets in bed.

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I've written before that it's nice to have a day at home after a trip, to decompress and get ready to return to work. This time I've done without it. It's a bit easier to skip it when there aren't also timezone changes to absorb. Baja California, California, and Arizona are on the same clock right now. But it's not just the time change, if any, to deal with. It's coming back to a pile of work that I feel totally lost with. Having a day to recover doesn't really help with that. And while being gone for two weeks in New Zealand didn't leave me feeling totally snowed under at work when I returned, this merely one week trip has me feeling like there was a blizzard I now have to dig out of.

Awards Dinner. I Bailed Early.

Los Cabos Travelog #18
Viceroy hotel, San Jose del Cabo - Wed, 8 May 2024, 10pm

This evening was the awards dinner for Club. Everyone here for Club, and all our +1s, assembled on the beach for dinner and cocktails. Like last year, the head of our sales organization went one-by-one through all of us employees present and shared a little personalized story about why he liked having us on the team. Perhaps because it all was so similar to last year, I just wasn't feeling it. I opted to leave 30 minutes early— well after the executive speeches but before the free drinks stopped. I went back to our room— our room with a beautiful living-room deck, now lit with evening lights— and vegged.

Last Morning in Cabo. Hiding in my Room.

Los Cabos Travelog #19
Viceroy hotel, San Jose del Cabo - Thu, 9 May 2024, 9am

Today's our last morning in Los Cabos. Our flight leaves a bit after noon; our shuttle to the airport leaves at 10am. As I've been waking up at 6am, that actually leaves us me few useful hours to enjoy the resort and/or the beach— if I wanted. Sadly I cannot find the energy to care. Other than socializing a bit with colleagues I passed on the walk over to the breakfast room earlier this morning, I've been content to sit quietly in my room.



It's a comfortable room with a beautiful view, I must point out. But beyond that artificial horizon lies a beach. And probably some of my colleagues. But today I don't care to see either one.

The beach, I don't care about because it's not actually that nice. Oh, it looks beautiful, a wide band of pale brown sand. But it's actually very gravelly and hurts to walk on. And the surf's too rough to enjoy going in further than knee-deep. Oh, and the water's cold, too.

As for my colleagues? I've been feeling a malaise at work for several months now. I'm disengaged and don't care much anymore. Hanging out with colleagues just doesn't seem much fun under the circumstances. Yes, this is the same reason I bailed early from the awards dinner last night. I'm happier keeping my own company here. 😔