Meetings Galore in Austin
Nov. 13th, 2025 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerTexas Trip log #6
AUS Airport · Thu, 13 Nov 2025. 4:45pm.
It has been a busy day for me with meetings galore in Austin.
My day started with a morning alarm at 6:15. I had to get ready for the day, pack my suitcase, and be downstairs for an informal meeting at 7:30am. Luckily it was informal as I fell behind schedule— I got sucked into reading too many work emails early this morning— as I didn't get downstairs until 7:40.
Then there was an 8:30 meeting at a prospective customer's office. We were annoyingly late for that, too. When we started leaving the hotel at 7:50, maps said we'd be there by 8:20. By 7:05, as we sat in traffic, our arrival time had slipped out to 8:25, then 8:30, then 8:40. Fortunately it all worked out as it was a very productive meeting. And the customer was understanding of our tardiness as some of them arrived late because of the same bad traffic (there was an accident in a construction zone).
Later in the morning I took a meeting from a picnic table on the edge of a parking lot outside a beer bar.As I've remarked many times, working remotely isn't just "Work From Home", it's work from anywhere you can set out a computer and get a network signal!
After that I took a meeting inside the bar. It was with a customer who'd picked the bar. Though oddly I was the only one (of the six of us total) who drank beer. I drank sparingly. Then after the customer left and it was just me and my sales colleague, I hit the bottle harder. 🤣
From lunch I headed over to the airport with a stop back at the hotel to drop off my colleague and pick up my suitcase. Here at AUS I cleared security surprisingly fast considering how busy the airport is. I bought a soda as a pretext for sitting at a table in one of the food court areas then conducted two more meetings sitting in the airport food court.
Now it's rolling up on 5pm and I consider myself done for the day. I've been working since before 6am, and I've still got at least 4 more hours to go before I get home tonight.
AUS Airport · Thu, 13 Nov 2025. 4:45pm.
It has been a busy day for me with meetings galore in Austin.
My day started with a morning alarm at 6:15. I had to get ready for the day, pack my suitcase, and be downstairs for an informal meeting at 7:30am. Luckily it was informal as I fell behind schedule— I got sucked into reading too many work emails early this morning— as I didn't get downstairs until 7:40.
Then there was an 8:30 meeting at a prospective customer's office. We were annoyingly late for that, too. When we started leaving the hotel at 7:50, maps said we'd be there by 8:20. By 7:05, as we sat in traffic, our arrival time had slipped out to 8:25, then 8:30, then 8:40. Fortunately it all worked out as it was a very productive meeting. And the customer was understanding of our tardiness as some of them arrived late because of the same bad traffic (there was an accident in a construction zone).
Later in the morning I took a meeting from a picnic table on the edge of a parking lot outside a beer bar.As I've remarked many times, working remotely isn't just "Work From Home", it's work from anywhere you can set out a computer and get a network signal!
After that I took a meeting inside the bar. It was with a customer who'd picked the bar. Though oddly I was the only one (of the six of us total) who drank beer. I drank sparingly. Then after the customer left and it was just me and my sales colleague, I hit the bottle harder. 🤣
From lunch I headed over to the airport with a stop back at the hotel to drop off my colleague and pick up my suitcase. Here at AUS I cleared security surprisingly fast considering how busy the airport is. I bought a soda as a pretext for sitting at a table in one of the food court areas then conducted two more meetings sitting in the airport food court.
Now it's rolling up on 5pm and I consider myself done for the day. I've been working since before 6am, and I've still got at least 4 more hours to go before I get home tonight.
