Finished in Phoenix, Heading Home
It doesn't feel that late at 4:30pm, but it's been a long day. I've been up for almost 12 hours. I'm almost done with my day-trip to Phoenix.
The flight out of SJC this morning went smoothly. Morning flights on Southwest Airlines usually do; there's little or nothing earlier in the day to snowball into trouble. One colleague was on the same flight, but we sat separately and kept to ourselves for the flight. I liked it that way; the flight was downtime / "me" time after getting up early to schlep to the airport and before hours of meetings.
Once in Phoenix we cabbed over to a nearby hotel to meet other colleagues as they arrived. There were a total of seven of us from the company converging from different directions.
Meetings with the client went well. One of the principals at this client has a reputation for being a hardass. He derailed our presentation as usual (it's one of his M.O.s and nobody listens to my cautions about it so it keeps happening over and over and everyone's like 🙀 every time) but this time the verbal beating wasn't too bad. I say that in comparison to his first meeting with us, where his first three words were "Your product sucks." 🙄
Now I'm back at PHX airport awaiting my flight home. The same colleague I flew with this morning is sitting next to me, though again we're each using this as personal time. I appreciate the downtime.
My flight home departs 5:40pm and arrives 7:26pm. ...That's the schedule, and today I think we might actually be on schedule. Our aircraft just pulled up to the gate to drop off passengers from its previous flight. And traffic here at PHX airport seems light this afternoon. Yay for traveling on a not-holiday Monday afternoon.
If things continue to go smoothly I'll meet Hawk for dinner somewhere on my drive home from the airport. If things go sideways... well, I guess for dinner there's a protein bar with my name on it.
Update: The protein bar waits 'til another day as I arrived home in time for a relaxing dinner date, thanks in part to a smart transportation choice.
The flight out of SJC this morning went smoothly. Morning flights on Southwest Airlines usually do; there's little or nothing earlier in the day to snowball into trouble. One colleague was on the same flight, but we sat separately and kept to ourselves for the flight. I liked it that way; the flight was downtime / "me" time after getting up early to schlep to the airport and before hours of meetings.
Once in Phoenix we cabbed over to a nearby hotel to meet other colleagues as they arrived. There were a total of seven of us from the company converging from different directions.
Meetings with the client went well. One of the principals at this client has a reputation for being a hardass. He derailed our presentation as usual (it's one of his M.O.s and nobody listens to my cautions about it so it keeps happening over and over and everyone's like 🙀 every time) but this time the verbal beating wasn't too bad. I say that in comparison to his first meeting with us, where his first three words were "Your product sucks." 🙄
Now I'm back at PHX airport awaiting my flight home. The same colleague I flew with this morning is sitting next to me, though again we're each using this as personal time. I appreciate the downtime.
My flight home departs 5:40pm and arrives 7:26pm. ...That's the schedule, and today I think we might actually be on schedule. Our aircraft just pulled up to the gate to drop off passengers from its previous flight. And traffic here at PHX airport seems light this afternoon. Yay for traveling on a not-holiday Monday afternoon.
If things continue to go smoothly I'll meet Hawk for dinner somewhere on my drive home from the airport. If things go sideways... well, I guess for dinner there's a protein bar with my name on it.
Update: The protein bar waits 'til another day as I arrived home in time for a relaxing dinner date, thanks in part to a smart transportation choice.