Let's digress for a minute shall we since yesterday was a travel day and the events themselves don't add up to much more than a few sentences. I woke up at 1am this morning with bad cramps in my stomach. Yay hotel food. But the worse part is that my sleep patterns are already screwed up on this trip. I fell asleep at 9pm CST. Yeah, 7pm normal time. Fun shit. But the worst part was that it caused me to just sit there and ponder way too much.
In the end? You can't change the past. You can't regret the past. You can't mourn the past. All you can do is learn from it, have a decent cry about it, and look towards tomorrow. There hopefully will always be a tomorrow. Hopefully. Unless the Mayans were right then we're all fucked so it doesn't matter anyway.
My second digression is I am actually a little surprised I haven't received any comments from my post the other day. That means either most of you already knew, those that weren't sure received confirmation, or you frankly don't give a shit because you know it doesn't make any difference as I am still the same person you knew. Regardless of which, good. Makes me happy.
Got up yesterday at 3am. My friends who were driving me to the airport showed up at 3:45. I am not used to that. Normally the person who drives me gets there at 4:01. I made them sit because they were throwing off my morning checklist. I have a very precise list of things I go through pre-flight and having people in the house screwed with me.
Got to the airport at 4:17 right on schedule. No upgrade for me. Was 5th on the list. Sucked. Had an aisle exit so I am not complaining. I did manage to sleep almost the whole flight. We left 45 minutes late which threw off things too. Everything yesterday was about being off kilter apparently. Got into Chicago around 1, an hour late. Finally found the rental car shuttle. Have a 2013 Ford Flex AWD fully loaded which is nice. Backup camera, heated seats, nav, etc. Not complaining. The hotel was about 20 minutes from the airport and the client is .4 from the hotel. If it wasn't 4 degrees outside I would walk it this morning, but um no.
When I got to the hotel my room wasn't ready yet, but that was okay. They were upgrading me to a better suite so I was happy to wait. I have a decent suite on this trip. I like staying at the nicer Hilton properties. Here I get an upgraded room plus free breakfast coupons since I have status. I can handle that. While I was waiting the weather outside went nuts. My phone started beeping at me that there was a tornado warning in effect. Excuse me? Tornado?? No no no. This boy does not do tornadoes. Earthquakes fine, but no tornadoes. That was kind of scary. The weather went ballistic. Rain, wind, lightning. The whole ball of wax. Luckily it calmed down 30 minutes later but still had me reeling. I was going to go exploring but no. Stayed in the hotel. Had food here hence my 1am cramps. I relaxed on the couch and read for a while. Fell asleep reading. Was up from 1-2 and back up at 6. This is going to be a fun week. I can tell already.
Side note - Wednesday woman emailed me back. I need names for them... let's see... oh fuck it. You will figure it out. Anyway, she may be busy when I get back but she definitely wants to see me again. I also got a text from Saturday woman. She had a nice time. Still unsure if I am in the friend zone with that one.
Off to work.
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