Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Week in review

Last week I was either travelling to or in Paris, sitting in meetings all day. I did make it out of the hotel three times.. twice to travel to the office and once for dinner on the last night of the meetings.

So much for Paris, traffic in that town is unbelievable, be glad you live in the good old "US of A" where it only takes 1 hour to travel 30 miles.. in Paris, it took 3.5 hours to travel the same distance!

Anyway, back to important stuff:
The Invaders soccer team is doing very well, while in Paris the kids won a game 3:1 and this past weekend, had a great 3:2 game which they also won (and we incorrectly had a goal taken away from us, which the ref later admitted was a mistake - glad it didn't decide the outcome of the game!)

Only two more action packed weekends left in the regular season, with games on both Sat / Sun for each of the coming weekends (so much for my marksmanship practice). I am looking forward to the kids finishing in a very good position this year, and also looking forward to seeing how they do in the post-season tournament. This was one of the best teams I have ever had the pleasure of coaching.

Until the next time..

Sunday, October 01, 2006

Sitting in O'Hare en route to Paris

In this blog I will complain about business travel.. well not really complain but gripe.

Oakland Airport sucks.. "warning Will Robinson!" do not fly out of Oakland if you are flying United, there were only two counter people but about 300 people that needed to board 6am flights!

Then there is my layover to Paris.. I will be stuck at O'Hare for 5 hours! Well that is what I get for attempting to make United my "carrier of choice". At least I will make my Tuesday meetings with little to no headache..(unless my luggage.. dooh, I don't even want to think about it)

Of course, the reason why this is even a problem at all, I don't really like to leave my family to fly on business.. it is one thing to have them fly with me, but a totally different one to have to be away from them for a week.

I guess that is why I make the "small bucks"..

That is it for this post..