Sunday, February 24, 2008
Back from Maui, Back to Reality & Rain
Jodi and I got back Friday night ahead of this lovely rain storm we are having. I've posted more pictures in the slide show from my previous post.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
More pictures from Maui
We drove out to Hana 2 days ago and saw most of the Island of Maui. It took us about 10 hours round trip but it was worth it.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Sunday, February 17, 2008
On Vacation
It's been quite a few weeks. Jodi and I have racked up some serious air miles in the last 21 days. Jodi has been to Serbia, and orange county, ca, and I have been to Pittsburgh, Las Vegas, and now we are both in Hawaii to enjoy a nice week vacation on Maui.
My travels to Pittsburgh were for college recruiting a Carnegie Mellon. For those new to that name, think of it at one of the top 10 computer science schools in the world. I was there to recruit and compete against Microsoft, Yahoo, and Oracle for the right mix of student. In my case, both social and technical, a 1 in 100 skill set from what I can tell. One thing. I cannot get over is the cost of living in Pitt. 99 cent pints and lunch for under $4. Pitt reminds me of a model
train town with rolling hills, American suburbs, and rivers. Somehow I made all my flight with white out conditions throughout the Midwest.
I got back late Friday night, and missed Jodi leaving to the OC by a few hours. Jodi got back Sunday night but then I was off to Vegas first thing Tuesday Morning. The Vegas trip was for our 2008 sales kickoff. We flew over 700 people there to get on track for the new year. It was a work hard/plat hard time with meetings from 8am to 7pm, and late nights/early mornings of partying. Between 4 hours of sleep a night and casino smoke I flew out Thursday night in poor
shape. We were flying out Friday morning at 9 and by Friday morning a cold had set in.
Long story short our cab didn't show up Friday morning and we left in a car for SFO at 8:15. We hit traffic and finally left long term parking by 8:30. We hit the airport and the FOB (look it up if you don't know what this is) told us that we can't check our bags. Jodi puts it into plan B and gets us through the premier status line of unites (because of her status). We throw a couple of large liquids away like our sun screen and her hair gel and we sprint for the gate. We make it by 5 minutes and check our bags at the door.
I'd say we both were on edge the rest of the day but we enjoyed our drive out to our resort. I finally enjoyed about 12 hours of sleep (with the time change) and felt like I was on the road to make this cold an 48 hour deal.
My travels to Pittsburgh were for college recruiting a Carnegie Mellon. For those new to that name, think of it at one of the top 10 computer science schools in the world. I was there to recruit and compete against Microsoft, Yahoo, and Oracle for the right mix of student. In my case, both social and technical, a 1 in 100 skill set from what I can tell. One thing. I cannot get over is the cost of living in Pitt. 99 cent pints and lunch for under $4. Pitt reminds me of a model
train town with rolling hills, American suburbs, and rivers. Somehow I made all my flight with white out conditions throughout the Midwest.
I got back late Friday night, and missed Jodi leaving to the OC by a few hours. Jodi got back Sunday night but then I was off to Vegas first thing Tuesday Morning. The Vegas trip was for our 2008 sales kickoff. We flew over 700 people there to get on track for the new year. It was a work hard/plat hard time with meetings from 8am to 7pm, and late nights/early mornings of partying. Between 4 hours of sleep a night and casino smoke I flew out Thursday night in poor
shape. We were flying out Friday morning at 9 and by Friday morning a cold had set in.
Long story short our cab didn't show up Friday morning and we left in a car for SFO at 8:15. We hit traffic and finally left long term parking by 8:30. We hit the airport and the FOB (look it up if you don't know what this is) told us that we can't check our bags. Jodi puts it into plan B and gets us through the premier status line of unites (because of her status). We throw a couple of large liquids away like our sun screen and her hair gel and we sprint for the gate. We make it by 5 minutes and check our bags at the door.
I'd say we both were on edge the rest of the day but we enjoyed our drive out to our resort. I finally enjoyed about 12 hours of sleep (with the time change) and felt like I was on the road to make this cold an 48 hour deal.
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