For thousands of years humans have wondered about life after death. Most have pondered the wrong question- "What happens to me after I die?" That's kind of selfish, anyway. The real question, the one that matters, is "What happens to my loved ones after I die?" It's the survivors who bear the burden of death ( Read more... )

A few days ago I wrote about our resolution to try new restaurants. We actually made that resolution a few months ago. And even that wasn't the first time we've made such a resolution. Like widely unkept New Year resolutions to visit the gym twice a week it was made with good intentions but poor follow-through. A few of the failed starts for our ( Read more... )

Hawk and I have been keeping to ourselves a lot this year. That seems strange to say because we have done a lot of travel this year. (Since March, anyway. We stayed home in January-February because of the Omicron surge.) But most of that travel has been focused on outdoors activities and on being around other people as little as possible. One thing ( Read more... )

There's been a lot about "revenge travel" in the media the past several months. People are traveling more now to make up for things being closed and people choosing to stay home during the depths of the Coronavirus pandemic. The trip we took to the Pacific Northwest last weekend (which I'm still writing about a week later and need probably another ( Read more... )

Colorado Travelog #1
At 38,000' aboard WN 2342 - Friday, 1 Jul 2022, 8pmThis evening we're flying to Denver, Colorado. At the moment we're in the air, about halfway there. This isn't a "Friday Night Halfway" entry, though, because once we land in Denver we've still got a lot further to go. Tonight we'll rent a car and drive only as far as a hotel a ( Read more... )

When the Coronavirus pandemic started I made a huge shift in my eating habits. Overnight I went from dining out in restaurants 12 times a week- basically most lunches and dinners- to cooking and eating every meal at home. I didn't eat restaurant food at all for the first month. Since then, and especially since getting vaccinated over a year ago now ( Read more... )

SJC Airport - Sun, 22 May 2022, 7:15am

Today I'm going on a business trip for real. For real-real-real.

• It's in-person
• It involves travel (more than just a 30 minute drive)
• It's to meet customers (not just attend internal training)

I've had a few meetings the past several months that hit 1 or 2 of these. I've had f2f meetings for work (3x). I've flown ( Read more... )

Business travel has been resuming slowly over the past several months. It's like it's taking baby steps.

» In November we had a luncheon for area employees to meet the execs. It was travel in the sense that we went somewhere and met f2f... even though the travel was, for most of us, just a drive to downtown San Jose.

» The first flight for ( Read more... )

Several months ago I wondered if I'd forgotten "how to people". The need to socially distance during the Coronavirus pandemic drastically cut the amount of interaction we all had with other people, particularly in person interaction. Being now 2 years on from that it makes sense that we'd have lost some of the skill and habituation to do it. For ( Read more... )

Day 0 of this sales kickoff (SKO) went pretty easy. I landed in Las Vegas after 2pm, got to my hotel by 3pm, and largely took it easy until just after 6. Then there was a reception at 6:30 on one of the decks outside.

Doing a meet-and-greet with people in person was like exercising and old muscle that hasn't been used much lately. In fact ( Read more... )