The case of the spraying water bottle

Ok this will be a short blog post but it was too funny not to recount. This past Monday, me and the family were returning home from New York to go back to Florida free celebrating my 9th wedding anniversary with my wife and daughter and attending our friends EPIC wedding in which my daughter …

Avoided the Deep Freeze!

This week I was supposed to up to Chicago for work but some strange thing happened with the weather and this crazy deep freeze set in. Now I've been in the cold (I worked in Minneapolis for a winter once) but man this one took the cake! I checked the forecast and there was a …

Leaving the Rollaboard at Home

I recently started a new project that's taking me off to Chicago. This has changed my flight schedule for sure and it has also changed how I pack for my trips. This is because I am now flying on a plane that can't handle a rollaboard. I technically can bring one but my bag would …

It’s going to be a busy summer

Over the last year I have hoarded a lot of my vacation time. I'm expecting a nasty gram probably next month from the HR system at work saying that I need to take some vacation time since I'm almost maxed out for the year. Have no fear HR automated system, my vacations have been booked …

Keeping Connected with FaceTime

In a little more than 24 hours I'll be on a plane to go to work in Jersey City from Monday through Friday. This is one of the more painful aspects of my chosen career because of the heavy travel requirements and time away from home. Slowly but surely I have introduced a ton of …

One Week to Go

In a little over one week I have to start traveling again for work. I've been on compensatory since December and I gotta say that I've loved it so far. I have enjoyed working from home and being able to spend time with my family since the holidays. I guess in the mean time I …

Crazy Travel

Lately I have been put on this pretty insane travel schedule for work. I'm not exactly pleased with it but its what I have to do to keep the money flowing into the ole bank account. Right now I'm doing alternate weeks for travel. Under normal circumstances that would mean one week at home and …

HHonors Diamond at last!

Finally after suffering through not having any status at hotels or airlines due to my inactivity last year, I have finally been able to reach status at one place, namely Hilton Hotels.  The highest status you can get with Hilton is Diamond unless there is some unspoken status that can be achieved but I'm not …

Almost Time for Hawaii

Only four more days to go until my first family vacation with the Mrs and the baby. I'm looking forward to getting a week off from work to relax and unwind. True to form I'm not going to take my work phone with me so if there is some sort of work emergency, it will …

Heading back to the Garden State

Late last year I predicted that I wouldn't be traveling to New Jersey for the rest of 2011and on that prediction I was pretty spot on. Oh how the travel and consulting gods love to tease me, it would appear that I will be spending a significant amount of time in New Jersey starting next …