I Wonder as I Wander…

A quick trip to the office in Mississippi was scheduled for the last weekend in August. Several people asked if I was going there for a vacation—heck no, I wouldn’t travel to a hot and humid area like that for a vacation. Everyone said it wasn’t nearly as hot as it had been—only in the 80s and 90s, but very humid. I guess it had been over 100 for several weeks. It did rain (pour) several days.

I left on the 4:45 am flight—yuk, but arrived before noon. So I was able to work part of the day on Monday—although I was really tired. I went back to the hotel, grabbed a quick bite and went to bed. Then next day was go to the office, go out to eat with my team members, go back to the hotel and grab a bite, and go to bed. Bob didn’t go with me, so it was pretty quiet.

On Wed, I brought my computer to the IT people to do some work on it. We had meetings all day, even brought in a lunch. When I went to pick up my computer, I learned that I had several bad sectors on the hard drive—so I ended up leaving the computer in Jackson. It crashed before they could copy the files, so I lost everything—which is why I’m posting some of these entries so late. I didn’t get my computer back until the middle of Sept—I was really lost without it. And I had so many conferences scheduled that I had to recreate many of my documents for. It’s been really stressful—I haven’t had this churning in my stomach and sleepless nights since I left the college.

The end of the trip had so many things go wrong it was amazing—first my computer crashed, then when I went to fill up the car with gas, my credit card wouldn’t work at the pump. I was up early for my flight and it was a little late. When we got to Memphis—the flight was a couple hours late, which meant that I missed my connection to the cities. So I ended up sitting in the MSP airport for 7 ½ hours—and it was cold in there—I was freezing. I had to keep walking to keep warm. I finally got home at 11 pm—It was a long day.