Another Valentine's Day has passed. And for me, at least, another Valentine's Day has been ignored. I even had a good excuse this year.... I'm in Las Vegas for a mandatory sales conference- this year's SKO.


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Vegas Travelog #1
SJC Airport - Tue, 14 Feb, 2023. 3:55pm

Today is Valentine's Day so I'm off to Las Vegas... alone. 🤣 My company scheduled its annual Sales Kickoff (SKO) meeting for this week. They were aware it could cause some conflict for US staff. Is it only the US where Valentine's Day is celebrated? Probably it's only the US where it's ( Read more... )

Today was Valentine's Day. Hawk and I put little stock in traditional expressions of it. It's a made-up holiday, anyway; a consumer event crassly promoted by greeting card companies, florists, and candy makers. That said, we try to do something a little special to mark the day, even if it's something we do often enough anyway, like go hiking ( Read more... )

It's official, tax season starts today! Where "official" means the IRS is now accepting tax returns. Yay?

I don't know anybody who really celebrates tax season. Even the accountants who make most of their annual income during tax season look at with with a mixture of love and hate because it means a few months of working nights and weekends.

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Today is Valentine's Day. Hawk and I both disdain the commercial traditions surrounding the day. We're glad that means neither of us feels pressure to do any of the stuff Corporate America wants us to spend lots of money doing. Instead of writing further about all the dumb things we don't do on Valentine's Day, I'll write about what we did do this ( Read more... )

SJC Airport - Fri, 14 Feb 2020, 7:30pm

Here it is Valentine's Day, and I'm... leaving town. But with my partner, Hawk. 😀 We're flying to San Diego this evening for a three-day weekend. Monday night we'll split, though. She'll fly home while I fly on to Las Vegas for a business trip. It's my company's annual sales kickoff conference. I'll fly home ( Read more... )

The Venetian, Las Vegas - Thu, 14 Feb 2019, 9pm"Did you have to schedule the event over Valentine's Day?" a few of my colleagues grumbled to management before this week's sales conference. The grumbling was mostly in jest, though. I don't think anyone was serious about wanting to do something romantic over Valentine's Day. I know I don't care about ( Read more... )

Today is Valentine's Day. I've written before I'm not a big fan of the crass commercialization around it. Fortunately neither is Hawk, so typically we do something not traditionally romantic. Often we wind up going hiking since that's something we both enjoy. See how we spent Valentine's Day hiking in 2014, and in 2015. And, for that matter, 2016. ( Read more... )

Merhawk and I had a pretty weird Valentine's Day this past weekend. We slept with her cousins, faced our own mortality, flagged down a CHP helicopter with a plastic bedsheet, and celebrated when it was all through with a dinner at Del Taco.

Details to follow.

Tonight Hawk and I are headed off on a weekend trip to Joshua Tree National Park. ...That's right, a desert. For Valentine's Day. Of course, we weren't thinking about the fact that Valentine's Day is this weekend (Sunday) when we planned the trip. We focused solely on the fact that Monday is the Presidents' Day holiday, giving us a three day ( Read more... )