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Chi-town...

Just got back (late) last night from Chicago. I went out there to meet with one of the engineers and meet with a client key manager and a couple of his staff engineers. It was a good trip IMO. I think we started knocking down a few barriers. It will be key for me to show my face out there regularly.

Some of the work rumors that have been going around for the past week or two have me concerned. Not about my job but about reallocation and restructuring of resources (how's that for management speak?). Same 'ol - same 'ol when working in large organizations...

I'm exhausted!! I worked late on Tuesday and winding down took me to about midnight before I could fall asleep. I woke at 5:30-ish on Wednesday and things started happening immediately. I worked on a few escalations until 3:00 when I left the customer site and headed to the airport.* I got to the airport and hung out and followed up on the escalations until I got on my 8-something flight. Got home at around midnight and had to wind down a bit before I could get to bed. Got up around 6:30. I have a 6:15 softball game tonight. I hope I'm up for it....

* The asterisk. It seems that either I got very lucky with the traffic in Chicago or that Chicagoans overestimate the traffic. It took me less than 45-minutes to get from Chicago (O'Hare) to Vernon Hills on Monday and the same getting back. I was told to expect 2-3 hours due to traffic so I set my schedule accordingly. Traffic is much worse in Seattle and Sacramento - although, at this point, I'd say that Sacramento is the worst of the three...

The pics in the previous post came from my flight to Chicago. I thought the river one looked cool. The airplane one was taken during the descent into Chicago. Thought the plane coming out of the thick clouds looked kind of cool also.

posted by Sam @ 10:36 AM