Off to Chicago
Aug. 11th, 2025 11:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerChicago Trip Log #1
SJC Airport - Mon, 11 Aug 2025, 11:20am
I haven't even finished blogging from Saturday's trip and already I'm leaving on my next trip. Five trips in August! This one's a flying trip, to Chicago, for work. And since I'm flying on Southwest that means....
...Yup, the flight is delayed. We should've left 10 minutes ago; instead we're only part way through boarding. I figure we'll leave 30 minutes late. Fortunately I'm not counting on a connection and I structured my schedule today so that an ordinary delay won't screw things up.
Oh, but speaking of starting this trip before catching up on blogging from the last, I am so glad we pushed back our full weekend trip to Mammoth Lakes into September and instead did a Friday Night halfway trip to the Sierras. The difference was, we got back tired and late on Saturday night instead of tired and late on Sunday night. If I'd had to get up this morning all achy and tired, after packing a suitcase at midnight last night— or get up at 6am this morning— I'd be miserable right now. Instead I had Sunday to recover.
As for this trip: I'm flying out to Chicago for 3 days of sales training, returning late Thursday night. Various people have asked, Oh, will you have time to visit this friend or that relative while you're in Chicago? LOL, no. On business trips like this, on sales training trips, basically every waking hour is scheduled. If I want downtime even to veg in front of my computer for an hour I have to decide what I'm skipping.
SJC Airport - Mon, 11 Aug 2025, 11:20am
I haven't even finished blogging from Saturday's trip and already I'm leaving on my next trip. Five trips in August! This one's a flying trip, to Chicago, for work. And since I'm flying on Southwest that means....
...Yup, the flight is delayed. We should've left 10 minutes ago; instead we're only part way through boarding. I figure we'll leave 30 minutes late. Fortunately I'm not counting on a connection and I structured my schedule today so that an ordinary delay won't screw things up.
Oh, but speaking of starting this trip before catching up on blogging from the last, I am so glad we pushed back our full weekend trip to Mammoth Lakes into September and instead did a Friday Night halfway trip to the Sierras. The difference was, we got back tired and late on Saturday night instead of tired and late on Sunday night. If I'd had to get up this morning all achy and tired, after packing a suitcase at midnight last night— or get up at 6am this morning— I'd be miserable right now. Instead I had Sunday to recover.
As for this trip: I'm flying out to Chicago for 3 days of sales training, returning late Thursday night. Various people have asked, Oh, will you have time to visit this friend or that relative while you're in Chicago? LOL, no. On business trips like this, on sales training trips, basically every waking hour is scheduled. If I want downtime even to veg in front of my computer for an hour I have to decide what I'm skipping.
