Up at 4am, out the door at 4:30, arrive in Chicago office for 9, all day meetings with Oracle, bad weather in Toronto, leave Chicago at 9pm, home by 1am. Total day, 21 hours.
Seems to be the normal as of late and it’s not enjoyable. Never envy business travellers.
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I’m sitting on a plane and wondering to myself if I can write an entry from my blackberry. If this shows up, then I guess the answer is definitively yes. Whether that speaks to the excellent wordpress software or the savvy blackberry web browser, it’s just cool that it does work - we need more things in life this easy.
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Ok, Sean, Shae, Karen and I found that customer service in Arizona is just different than anywhere else we’ve been before. And when I say “different”, I mean “not helpful”.
We check in at hotel and ask about getting accomodations there on our return in 4 days. That sparks a 10 minute conversation trying to explain we don’t want to book the next 4 days at the hotel, but “in” 4 days. We went to a restaurant, Sean went to ask about whether we need to ask for seating, they sarcastically respond “that’s how restaurants usually work” but to sit anywhere we like. Next time, same restaurant, we try a different tact and seat ourselves, comments on how we should have asked (presumably to be told sit anywhere we like). Two different kinds of waiters, those that want us to drink bloody mary’s at 9am and those that don’t. We travel north up to the Sedona, a clerk tells me lots of details about her life and husband who has passed and a bunch of things that make her life not 100%. Travel North up to the Grand Canyon, we receive a “welcome back” at the entrance to the park, having never been there before. Back to Sedona. We order some pottery. We both buy a bowl but want to ship them together, that adds to confusion about how to divide by two. We arrive back in Waterloo. Two weeks later, no pottery bowls. Sean calls today. Oh they were sent. “With whom?” Don’t have any contact with shipper. “What’s tracking number?” Oh we don’t have that. “How do we find out where the bowls are?” I don’t know. So, I forsee a credit card cancellation charge coming up next week.
Customer service in Arizona, it’s just different. Be warned.
2 comments May 30th, 2006
Not that I needed it very much (already had good pants) - but my Molten Core run on the weekend (which included Ryan and Simon for the first time) got me a few things, including that set piece — now I’m just 2 bits away from done.
I’ve updated my profile on CTProfiles.net to try to keep it mostly up to date.
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My boss picked me up a laptop backpack while he was in California… looks really really nice (albeit more costly than your average camping backpack). I’m giving it a trial run tomorrow as I travel to Chicago, so hopefully it prove as functional as it looks.
You can see it on the Tumi website.
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Ok, so this is my first blog and my first blog entry. Aren’t you special for being here to read it. I’m sure I’ll get more used to it as a I read more about what I can do and more creative topics come to my head.
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