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canyonwalker) wrote2025-06-02 06:34 pm
canyonwalker) wrote2025-06-02 06:34 pm
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26 Hours in Phoenix
This afternoon I flew to Phoenix. I'm in town for 26 hours, flying home tomorrow at 6:30pm. In between now and then I'll meet colleagues for dinner tonight ahead of a meeting with a major customer tomorrow.
This trip comes hot on the heels of returning from Club on Saturday evening. I haven't even finished blogging about that trip. Now, after 1/2 day at work, I'm back on the road again.
I considered making this a same-day, out-and-back trip to Phoenix. My customer meeting tomorrow is late enough that I could have caught a morning flight SJC-PHX and gotten to their office in time. ...In time if the flight is mostly on-time. Which... who knows. Things went super smooth with my trip today. I left home for SJC airport at 1:15pm, caught a 2:30 flight, landed at 4:30, and arrived at my hotel just after 5. But who knows if a morning flight tomorrow would go as smoothly. Flying out to Phoenix today heads off the possibility of scheduling trouble there.
The tradeoff, of course, is that traveling today means a night away from home. I discussed this tradeoff with Hawk when I was booking reservations two weeks ago. "You should totally go out the day before and have dinner with your colleagues," she answered.
Being in Phoenix tonight isn't just about dinner with colleagues. That dinner will be a working dinner, BTW. We'll discuss plans for how to present in a lengthy meeting with a major customer tomorrow. And being here tonight also means that instead of spending tomorrow morning traveling I can join & participate in some important internal meetings.
This trip comes hot on the heels of returning from Club on Saturday evening. I haven't even finished blogging about that trip. Now, after 1/2 day at work, I'm back on the road again.
I considered making this a same-day, out-and-back trip to Phoenix. My customer meeting tomorrow is late enough that I could have caught a morning flight SJC-PHX and gotten to their office in time. ...In time if the flight is mostly on-time. Which... who knows. Things went super smooth with my trip today. I left home for SJC airport at 1:15pm, caught a 2:30 flight, landed at 4:30, and arrived at my hotel just after 5. But who knows if a morning flight tomorrow would go as smoothly. Flying out to Phoenix today heads off the possibility of scheduling trouble there.
The tradeoff, of course, is that traveling today means a night away from home. I discussed this tradeoff with Hawk when I was booking reservations two weeks ago. "You should totally go out the day before and have dinner with your colleagues," she answered.
Being in Phoenix tonight isn't just about dinner with colleagues. That dinner will be a working dinner, BTW. We'll discuss plans for how to present in a lengthy meeting with a major customer tomorrow. And being here tonight also means that instead of spending tomorrow morning traveling I can join & participate in some important internal meetings.