Road Trippin'

Greetings from Oakland. I'm at a conference with a fun group of people. Don't know how much biz I'll get out of it, but it is a good time.

I caught a bit of the Lakers-Celtics game last night. The Lakers are just sucking. I don't think they'll be able to pull it together to win the series. Then again, a seven game series doesn't really begin until the home team loses, and LA has the next 3 at home. Oh, and LSU kicked UC Irvine's ass, so the Anteaters are NOT going to the college world series.

This morning I got an e-mail from a client who wants me in KC on Wednesday. Note that the HB is out of school and my wife's chasing him around for Mon and Tues while I'm in Oakland. She needs to get shit done at work as well and I already told her that I would take care of him on Wednesday. So, I tell the client that I'm unavailable. She's a working mom so I explain why and she's totally good with it. Well, her boss REALLY wants me there, so he writes back with, "Well, we'll pay you an extra $500 to come out for this meeting." Umb, it's NOT about the money, asshole. What part of I CAN'T BE THERE don't you understand? You can tell that his wife is a stay at home mom.

Tuesday's gonna be jam packed. I have a conference call with a client in the morning, then for lunch I'm going to meet a woman who does some of my web programming. Not a big deal, except I've never met her face-to-face and we've worked together for the last 3 years. She is very cool and I'm looking forward to having lunch with her (hm...maybe at the cool brew pub that I can see from my hotel window).

I'll catch some afternoon conference sessions and I get to present an award as well. After that, I'm meeting up with the woman I regularly slept with in grad school for happy hour. No, nothing like that's gonna happen. We resolved our shit many years ago and she's married to a great guy. She and I get together every couple of years or so just to get caught up, etc. Then, I have the 8 pm flight back home.