I'm finally back after a long absence. I'm sure my die hard, loyal readers have been holding their breaths and eagerly awaiting a new post. Ok, maybe not.
Vacation: As you might have guessed by now, I've been away on vacation. I went home to California to visit the family and didn't get a chance to update my blog. Sure I could have written some updates here and there, but I was too busy eating and resting and relaxing and playing with the dogs. As to be expected it was a wonderful trip and a week always seems too short. But fortunately I'll be going home again in a few weeks for my Christmas vacation.
Adventures in Travel: While the trip home was wonderful, the journey back was adventurous. First of all, my flight was delayed. I think that the delays were caused by bad weather in the Midwest, and somehow the series of delays eventually affected my flight. The arriving plane that was then supposed to take me to Denver was delayed, so I ended up being delayed by about an hour. But it is winter and I expect these things to happen, so I don't let myself get bothered by it...unlike a few other people in the terminal who kept asking where the plane was.
There also happened to be an entire team of teenage girls from some kind of athletic team on my flight. Their presence was both amusing and annoying. Amusing in the sense that I'm so old, I can't even remember what it was like to be that young. Annoying in the sense that they were lying all over the floor around the gate, so people had to step over or around them to get from one place to another.
The one good thing that happened was that I was able to get my bag right away from baggage claim. By the time I was able to get from the gate to the baggage carousel the bags were already coming out. I walked up, looked down, and there was my bag. Wahoo! However, that wasn't quick enough for me to catch the 7:00 p.m. shuttle, so I had to wait for the 8:00 shuttle. Another hour delay, so to speak. I got on the shuttle bus and naturally it was crowded with people coming back from vacation. We stopped near a hotel in Boulder, and they broke us up into smaller vans to take us to different locations. This time my van had only three people, so that wasn't so bad. However, the person who got off the shuttle before me accidentally took my bag. It was an older gentleman, it was dark, both our bags are red, so I can see how that could happen, but that sort of took the air out of the sail of my sinking ship. Fortunately, a neighbor of the gentleman called me and was able to bring my bag to me. So that reinforced my somewhat weakening belief that there are still good people in the world. But by the time I got settled at home it was about 10:00, and I was exhausted. What is normally a five hour travel day, ended up being about a nine hour travel day somehow.
Work: Everything at work seemed to be in good order. My teammates did a great job of babysitting my projects while I was away. But there was a lot to take care of today, and this is going to be a really busy and hectic week. I'm already looking forward to my next vacation!
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