Back to the Airport, 12 Hours Later

[canyonwalker]

Vegas Travelog #1
SJC Airport - Mon, 27 Nov 2023. 11am.

Just 12 hours after getting home last night from a 9-day Thanksgiving trip I left home this morning for a 4-day business trip. So much for my stretch of 7 stay-home weekends!

This trip I'm going to Las Vegas for the AWS re:Invent trade show. I'll be staffing my company's booth there.

Transitioning from a week+ leisure trip straight into a business trip can be rough. I've taken some deliberate steps to make it saner.

• For one, I booked an itinerary for last night that had us not getting home super later. Ideal would've been to get home around 6pm but 9:30pm was the best I could do without having to leave too early in the morning or spend several hundred dollars more.


• Two, I don't have to leave first thing this morning. An 11:30am departure gets me there in plenty of time for the mid-afternoon kickoff of the trade show.


• Three, I used my work hours this morning before heading to the airport to pack for the trip rather than trying to squeeze in too much computer-based work. I did use some of my downtime once at the airport to catch up on email and Slack.

So far, so good. Of course that's easy to say as I haven't even boarded my flight yet. 😅 Boarding begins in a few minutes. We'll see how the rest of the week goes.

Update: ...Aaand We're Delayed

Just a few minutes after I posted this news came that our flight was delayed. It was all too easy, wasn't it? But unlike most Southwest delays which are them falling behind schedule because their schedule is stupidly optimistic, this delay was a mechanical problem. (Details moved to separate entry.)