I’ve hit the point of boredom at SFO. I have been here since 3p and my flight doesn’t leave for about another hour. So I finally got in the mood to write a little more in my blog. I have been in San Diego since Wednesday for a work conference. I enjoyed the conference but not as much as I usually do. I used to look at it as a fun time to party and reconnect with friends. Now, it’s more work with hanging out with a few close friends that I’ve met through the years and Patrick. It was a very productive few days working and networking for next year. But I was so out of there the minute I could. Mainly because it wasn’t fun and secondly I have become so jaded about the organization that just wants kick back after kick back that it is sickening. I just hope that I didn’t treat my partners at my schools like this organization treats us.
But on Friday, I was free. I got the car and headed to my hotel I was staying for the rest of the weekend. It was in the Liberty Station area of San Diego. I would highly recommend the area if you’re visiting San Diego because it’s a nice neighborhood that is rather easy to get to downtown with downtown prices. When I got to the hotel I really needed to work out because I hadn’t worked out since Tuesday. Although I am self disciplined about working out, my body gets weird if I don’t work out for a few days in a row. I was definitely at that point between not working out, drinking, and eating like crap for three days. Also because Conner is keeping me in check on my workouts, I have to keep going to keep up with him. We are keeping each other disciplined on eating and working out because we talk all the time, if we don’t work out or eat well, we have to listen to the other make fun of you . It’s not worth that cookie to listen to him mock me.
But after I worked out, I went up to UCSD to pick up Hayden for the night. Hayden was my 2010 project and is currently a freshman there. What didn’t work for either of us is that I’ve never been to UCSD. Normally this wouldn’t be a problem if Hayden knew the general area in which he lived. After about 20 minutes of driving around the campus in the dark, I found his dorm and picked him up. We hung out in the hotel that night and the next morning picked up Michelle for lunch. I took them to one of my favorite restaurants in SD except I was blinded by the breadsticks. The breadsticks are like a hot girl. They are what brought you to the party but once you look past her, there’s nothing really going to keep you there. The food was crap and I fell out of love with the breadsticks in the process. Utterly defeated, we took Michelle and her friends to the airport and I dropped Hayden off on campus.
My next stop was to visit with Maximus who was my 2009 project and he’s a sophomore at SDSU. We went to lunch (I had ice cream which I was mocked by Conner) and caught up on life since we hadn’t hung in a while. It was great to catch up with him and just hope he spreads his wings even more this year. I hung out in his apartment after lunch which reminded me what happens when five guys live together. I never lived with more than three people and there was always a girl in the mix. My house never looked like that… but it was fun. Why? One of the roommates is sleeping on a mattress in living room on top of foze ball table. That’s classic college. Oh I remember the days of being a college kid and that’s not how I could live. I’m too much of a neat freak to handle that.
I got back to the hotel for a little nap and after too much fun on Friday night, I wasn’t down with another night of debauchery. I decided to stay in and just go for a run and hangout. I went for a run along the bay which was a great end to the trip and to run off the booze and food to get back where I was before I left. Afterwards I had some Subway and went down to the hot tub to relax. I met a cool family that is has been staying at the hotel since December (it’s an extended stay property) because they had storm damage to their house. They had a son going to college and I think I sold him on Chico State. We also got on the conversation about points and traveling. They have racked up some serious points staying there and we were talking about how to spend them.
I went to bed early and woke up to go on another outdoor run because I figured with it raining so much up north, I don’t know when I would have a chance to enjoy such weather. I went on a great run and had breakfast. Then about 11 a.m., I started to gear up to go home when I got a phone call from United. Which brings me to the ratchet in my weekend…
I was supposed to fly home from San Diego to San Francisco and connect to Chico. My flight from SFO to Chico was cancelled. Any time that I fly to Chico there is always going to be a problem with flights. I figure in the past year, I have racked up at least $1500 in flight vouchers and 20,000 miles because I’ve been stuck somewhere or something happening to me on United. The other problem about flying to Chico is that the flights are limited. So when my 4p flight was cancelled, the next one isn’t until 9:30 at night. I have become pretty familiar with SFO and honestly as much as I would like to get home, I can get what I would get done at home here. Being stuck here for six hours isn’t the end of the world… but you know I’m going to make United pay for it. I get on the phone and wait the 15 minutes on hold to get an agent and calmly explain my disappointment with having to sit in SFO for six hours and what a huge inconvenience it is. Boom… $200 voucher. What’s funnier is that I paid for this trip on another voucher so I really got $350 from this trip.
Since 3p, I have been wondering around SFO. I found a workstation and knocked out some wedding stuff and work to pass the time. Then I had dinner and I started to wonder. I found another work station and started to try to watch Hulu… but apparently that wasn’t happening on their network. So I was looking for people on facebook, e-mail, or anything. Lacking motivation to do much, I just started people watching. But now I got my motivation to write my blog for the weekend. I am going to try to make an effort to write more on my rants this week because I’m sure someone is going to piss me and I’ll write about it.
