I have had a crazy few days! So here is the itinerary.Thursday 5:00am - leave my house to head to Exton, PA (45 min away) to catch the Amtrak train to NYC that leaves at 6:11
Thursday 5:30am - realize that I left the train tickets at home and I would have to go back and get them. Yippie!!!!!
Thursday 5:45am - Leave home again, this time in route to Philadelphia 30th Street station to intercept train that I am missing due to ticket foul up.
Thursday 6:30am - Made it to the train station with time to spare to get the train.
Thursday 8:30am - Made it to NYC and worked there for the day and stayed for the night.
Friday 9:00am - Waiting for person to show up for interview.
Friday 9:45am - Still waiting!!!!
Friday 10:00am - Still waiting !!!
Friday 10:15am - Call recruiter about possible tech and found that he can't reach him either. Guess he is not the guy. Also received call from Mrs. Clean (aka: sicko) she is not doing well, I decide that I will get early train home to help.
Friday 10:35am - Phew, just made the train to go home.
Friday 1:00pm - Made it home and have to get on conference call at 2pm that I forgot about.
Friday 2:00pm - Not much help for the kids!!
Friday 2:30pm - Call comes from tech in Buffalo and service call is not going well there. (Based on post title you can see where this is going.)
Friday 3:15pm - Decision has been made that I have to go to Buffalo, NY on Saturday to resolve customer issue.
Friday 4:30pm - All the plans are in place for me to leave and go to Buffalo.
Friday 5:30pm - Go run out and get dinner out (quick and easy, and Stanley paid, even better)
Friday 6:00pm - Get some time to spend with the kids. KZ breaks my heart when he tells me that he does not want me to leave again. Spends time crying while I play with SM and CG. Spend some time reading with KZ once he calms down some.
Friday 7:30pm - put the kids to bed.
Friday 7:45pm - get about 15min with Mrs. Clean.
Friday 8:00pm - Race out the door to meet my manager and catch flight to Buffalo.
Friday 10:40pm - Sitting on plane ready to go.
Saturday 12:15am - Find that National Car Rental (place that I reserved car) is not open. GREAT!! Walk to Hertz and get a car with GPS. YIPPEE!!! A new toy to play with.
Saturday 1:00am - Head hits the pillow. GOOD NIGHT!!!!
Saturday 6:30am - Head off the pillow. GOOD MORNING!! What day is it now? Get up get ready to go and eat breakfast and drive to customer site.
Saturday 7:45am - On site and working on problem that other techs have been working on since Wednesday.
Saturday 12:00pm - Leave customer site call US Air and race to catch the 1:10pm flight to Philadelphia. Make it with about 30min.
Saturday 12:53pm - Sitting in airport typing this up waiting for plane. Notice a problem. I should be on the plane now. Plane is just pulling up. Will add the rest later.
Saturday 1:30pm - Plane is leaving 20 minutes late however, pilot says that we should be early arriving due to tail wind, aka TURBULENCE!! We are on a small DeHaviland Dash 8 airplane that bounces around a lot. No biggie I sleep most of the way home.
Saturday 2:00pm - Landing is getting very rough and the lady behind me has the urge to regurge!! I feel sorry for her. However the aroma left in the plane I could really do with out.
Saturday 2:15 - Plane lands on one wheel. In all honesty this made me a tad nervous, but pilot was a pro and got it on all three in no time. Stewardess says that is how they have to land in windy conditions. Not sure about that. But keeps the passengers calm.
Saturday 3:00pm - Have my bags and I am in the car on my way home.
Saturday 4:00pm - Finally I am at home and can start to wind down. Looking forward to my own bed.
Saturday 6:30pm - Have a movie night with the kids. Watch the Christopher Reeve "Superman" with them. Wish I could have flown like him. All this travel would have been a lot easier.
Saturday 8:30pm - All kids tucked in and going to sleep.
Saturday 9:00pm - All is quite in the house and I am looking forward to 2 days off and no trip to NYC this week. My manager let me take Monday off with all of the hub bub that just went on.
THE END
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