Last Minute Travel

Started by deanwebb, May 12, 2018, 04:18:32 PM

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deanwebb

May 12, 2018, 04:18:32 PM
 :-\

It happens. Today, I got tapped to help out somewhere starting Monday. Tomorrow is Mother's Day and Monday is my wife's birthday. Looks like we will be observing both occasions tonight and then I'm gone on outta here for a week.

Meh.

I mean, yeah, that ups my billable percentage... but business travel ain't always fun travel. Once you get to the customer's cube farm or conference room, it all looks pretty much the same, whether you're in a big NYC skyscraper or a basement in Keokuk, Iowa...
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

deanwebb

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May 25, 2018, 08:59:37 AM
BTW, while I was in the middle of that trip, I got tapped to travel this week. Going home for reals today, and I actually have a little time to get caught up on the forums here.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

Dieselboy

#2
May 30, 2018, 07:44:18 AM
Buy one of these and expense the shipping to wherever they tell you that you need to go next. Not only will you save the company money, you'll please your family at the same time :)

deanwebb

#3
May 31, 2018, 10:58:10 AM
Yeah, that just creeps out the customers, and I'd be at their mercy on properly boxing it up and shipping it back to me.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

Nerm

#4
May 31, 2018, 12:31:32 PM
I gotta say that is a great idea though lol.

deanwebb

#5
June 01, 2018, 08:28:47 AM
Meanwhile, I'm about to go on a for-reals vacation and I'm trying to explain to the kids how to get through the airport with a minimum of hassle... they got no clue about how to hustle through an airport, no idea...
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

Otanx

#6
June 01, 2018, 09:03:14 AM
When anyone talks about travel, and getting through airport security this scene pops in my head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_LpxldL8h4

-Otanx

deanwebb

#7
June 01, 2018, 09:20:36 AM
^ It's so true, though. The romantic arcs in that movie, I could do without. The travel tips are golden gospel.

I walk with a cane, so often I get pulled to go to the handicapped line. In most airports, it's the TSA precheck line so I get a shorter trip and I'm behind like-minded business travelers. Zip right on through.

You think it would be the same at Atlanta-Hartsfield...

:butno:

It's not. There, the handicapped line is basically, get in line with all the old folks in wheelchairs. Combine the stroller situation with the old people and multiply by 20 and that's why it took an hour for me to get through that line. Next time they try to handicap me at Atlanta, I'm going to decline as politely as possible. It's faster to go through the longer line and that's easier on my legs. Walking's not the problem, it's *standing* that hurts me.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.
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