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canyonwalker) wrote2025-03-09 06:27 pm
canyonwalker) wrote2025-03-09 06:27 pm
Trade Show Day 3: Done, Feeling Spaced, Headed Home
Pasadena Trade Show Travelog #9
BUR airport - Sun, 9 Mar 2025, 3pm
Today was Day 3, the last day, of the SCaLE trade show in Pasadena, California. It was a half day for us exhibitors, 10a-2pm. That was good because I was feeling spaced out all shift. I'm not sure what the issue was.... I've eaten reasonably the past few days, I drank alcohol only in moderation (6-7 servings total over three days), and I got at least half-decent sleep each night... though the latter only by getting to bed early because I kept waking up stupid early.
"Maybe it's Daylight Saving Time," one of my colleagues suggested when I shared that I was feeling only 80% there mentally in the booth.
I challenged that idea, explaining all the things I mentioned above. And DST is just a one-hour change. That alone shouldn't have me feeling like I've got a light buzz going.
I think it's just exhaustion. I've worked 7 days in a row now. I need some downtime to refresh.
Unfortunately I'm not going to get downtime. I mean, I'll have a few hours this evening— I'm at the airport already awaiting my flight home, which is scheduled to arrive in San Jose at 5:00— but tomorrow morning it's back to work with a busy week ahead. I will be taking a day off on Friday; a comp day for working this weekend. And I'll likely take another the following Friday, too. But for now I'm amid an 11-day work week... and today is not even the 7th inning stretch.
BUR airport - Sun, 9 Mar 2025, 3pm
Today was Day 3, the last day, of the SCaLE trade show in Pasadena, California. It was a half day for us exhibitors, 10a-2pm. That was good because I was feeling spaced out all shift. I'm not sure what the issue was.... I've eaten reasonably the past few days, I drank alcohol only in moderation (6-7 servings total over three days), and I got at least half-decent sleep each night... though the latter only by getting to bed early because I kept waking up stupid early.
"Maybe it's Daylight Saving Time," one of my colleagues suggested when I shared that I was feeling only 80% there mentally in the booth.
I challenged that idea, explaining all the things I mentioned above. And DST is just a one-hour change. That alone shouldn't have me feeling like I've got a light buzz going.
I think it's just exhaustion. I've worked 7 days in a row now. I need some downtime to refresh.
Unfortunately I'm not going to get downtime. I mean, I'll have a few hours this evening— I'm at the airport already awaiting my flight home, which is scheduled to arrive in San Jose at 5:00— but tomorrow morning it's back to work with a busy week ahead. I will be taking a day off on Friday; a comp day for working this weekend. And I'll likely take another the following Friday, too. But for now I'm amid an 11-day work week... and today is not even the 7th inning stretch.