Home from Austin
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canyonwalkerTexas Trip log #7
Back home · Thu, 13 Nov 2025. 9pm.
I'm back home now after a two-day trip to Austin, Texas. My previous blog, written at Austin's airport, may look like it's from just 4 hours ago, but it's from 6 hours ago because of the time change. Yeah, it was a long day already when I left. Now it's longer. What's happened since then? Well....
Yup, my flight was delayed. We boarded 10 minutes late, then it slipped to 20-25 minutes late by the time we actually departed.
On the plus side, Hawk's personal schedule for the day was running late, too, so she offered to pick me up at the airport in San Jose and go out to dinner together. The flight landed at 7:30, and I was in our car headed to dinner by 7:42.
On the flight I wasn't sure I'd have enough energy for dinner. It was late, it was a long day, and I thought I might just want to go home to bed. But being able to stand up and walk, breathe non-recycled air, and seeing Hawk again help perk me up.
As we drove off from the airport we discussed where to go for dinner. Hawk suggested Giovanni's, a favorite local pizza place. I countered with "How about something bland?" since I felt I'd had too much rich food the past few days. Then as we talked through it I realized that "bland" would be something like Denny's (ugh; already had it this year) I decided a pizza would be bland enough for me. 🤣
Now we're back home. I've unpacked my suitcase and I'm winding down for the evening. Actually I'm not just winding down I'm shutting down. I don't have mental bandwidth for anything else tonight. And as I look at what is on my calendar for tomorrow I see it's going to be an absolutely packed day, starting with a meeting at 7am. It's just as well my meeting in San Antonio went remote (instead of in-person) and I had deftly booked alternate plans to fly home tonight. Well, at least by going to bed now it shouldn't hurt so much when I have to get up at 6:15am and start another full day.
Back home · Thu, 13 Nov 2025. 9pm.
I'm back home now after a two-day trip to Austin, Texas. My previous blog, written at Austin's airport, may look like it's from just 4 hours ago, but it's from 6 hours ago because of the time change. Yeah, it was a long day already when I left. Now it's longer. What's happened since then? Well....
Yup, my flight was delayed. We boarded 10 minutes late, then it slipped to 20-25 minutes late by the time we actually departed.
On the plus side, Hawk's personal schedule for the day was running late, too, so she offered to pick me up at the airport in San Jose and go out to dinner together. The flight landed at 7:30, and I was in our car headed to dinner by 7:42.
On the flight I wasn't sure I'd have enough energy for dinner. It was late, it was a long day, and I thought I might just want to go home to bed. But being able to stand up and walk, breathe non-recycled air, and seeing Hawk again help perk me up.
As we drove off from the airport we discussed where to go for dinner. Hawk suggested Giovanni's, a favorite local pizza place. I countered with "How about something bland?" since I felt I'd had too much rich food the past few days. Then as we talked through it I realized that "bland" would be something like Denny's (ugh; already had it this year) I decided a pizza would be bland enough for me. 🤣
Now we're back home. I've unpacked my suitcase and I'm winding down for the evening. Actually I'm not just winding down I'm shutting down. I don't have mental bandwidth for anything else tonight. And as I look at what is on my calendar for tomorrow I see it's going to be an absolutely packed day, starting with a meeting at 7am. It's just as well my meeting in San Antonio went remote (instead of in-person) and I had deftly booked alternate plans to fly home tonight. Well, at least by going to bed now it shouldn't hurt so much when I have to get up at 6:15am and start another full day.
