I’m going to start taking pictures during my work trips. I’m always very busy, and feeling preoccupied and also excited to get home, so I never really stop to enjoy the places I go the way I would like to. I commit to starting to post more interesting things from the places I go for my work. This will help my family to feel closer to me as they get to peak into more of my world, I hope. I think I will feel even closer to them knowing they are tapped into things I’m experiencing when I’m not directly with them.
So today I was in San Diego all day. Lily says there was not much to report from the home-front front I’ll tell about my trip.
There actually was some drama. I forgot to pack my phone charger, and my phone was all, but dead in the morning. I was concerned that I wouldn’t even have enough juice to call a Lyft ride to my appointment, and there were none hanging around in the hotel lost and found. So I decided to go on a walk to get one, figuring I’d find a place relatively easily. Well, I was staying right next to the airpot, and I think I walked in the worst possible direction, because I basically walked the length of the airport and it took 30 minutes to get to a gas station to buy my charger. I then walked 30 minutes back, ate my breakfast while my phone charged, called my lift ride and was 30 minutes late to my appointment. With all the anxiety I have felt lately about my faith and personal journal lately, the walk actually felt like a miracle.
My meeting was so cool. I can’t share who I met with because of a signed NDA, nor will I share many details. I’ll just say that my colleague, Sonya from Walker, did the bulk of the presenting and she did an amazing job, and I learned so much just watching her. Also, the potential customer had almost ten people around the table and there was such incredible and insightful discussion that gave me great insights about what is required to get a CX program off the ground. It was one of the best on-sights I’ve ever had in terms of things that I learned. We also made great progress towards getting to the point of working with this great company.
After the meeting, I went straight to the airport, talked to the kids on the phone, ate a burger, cranked out some work and then fell asleep on the plane. I got home at 12:45 AM and fell asleep promptly in my bed, which was a gift as sometimes it is hard to sleep after napping on the plane. I felt very full of doubt, and far from God that day, but there where moments where it felt that hope and God broke through, and it was very very nice to be back home with my sweetheart.