I have deteremined that my stress level the last 1.5 months has been pretty high and I am sure it revolves around #SQLPASS.\u00a0 Here let me explain.<\/p>\n
First there is my company that made me dance around like a puppet and sit on pins and needles while waiting to find out if I was going to get to attend this year.\u00a0 You see last year the “boys” went and I didn’t get to.\u00a0 One of them, who happens to be my boss’s boss would come by\u00a0and rub it in that he was going and that I wasn’t then I got the drop by stories from PASS\u00a0 for months after.\u00a0 There was also continual badgering from KLT on my status and etc.\u00a0 Yeah that really helps.\u00a0 They finally tell me I am going and then some level of panic sets in.\u00a0 OMG OMG OMG I AM GOING TO PASS! Then there was the SHIT! the conference hotel was full days ago and the alternate just became full.\u00a0 The amount of stressing out I did for the last couple weeks is just crazy.\u00a0 I got a meeting invite to attend a special “let’s book PASS”.\u00a0 WOW! After that I was pretty much on my own for all the other travel plans.\u00a0 I have never traveled with my current company I don’t know the policies, I don’t know what to do.\u00a0 They mentioned in the meeting that we should use Expedia, uh NO! I explained that we need to get as close as possible to the conference facility and that gave us a free pass to book a room.\u00a0 Whew!<\/p>\n
Okay, that part is done I am registered for PASS and have a hotel reservation.\u00a0 Now what? FLIGHTS!\u00a0 You see Kerry got his company to pay registration, we still have to cover his flight and etc. So I book flights on Southwest Air, not without a call to customer service. Bad news is that we had to “adjust” the flights, I couldn’t book a free flight home for KLT till the Monday after. Now we are headed to SEA on Monday 10\/10 and going to miss the phot walk.\u00a0 BOOO! \u00a0\ud83d\ude41\u00a0\u00a0Flights, hotel and registration we are well under way. Now there is the extra days we are staying gonna need a rental car, and did I mention the company is getting a break on the hotel rental because the extra days (extended stay) get us lower rate?<\/p>\n
That then leads to last week’s last minute OMG we need business cards.\u00a0 Our company doesn’t provide them so we need to print our own.\u00a0 How? Where? WHO? Well we used a company recommended by a fellow SQL person. Paid extra for shoter delivery time (to bad we found out they came from Louisville KY and got here 2 days early). But then we had issues getting 2-sided cards worked out so I spent an evening\u00a0designing cards. \ud83d\ude00\u00a0 They arrived today and I am really happy with them.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So one of my co-workers wants my help figuring out how to enter a expense report.\u00a0I realize that\u00a0OMG \u00a0I am going to need to do this.\u00a0 That took about 4 days and 4 hours of reading.\u00a0 No stress there!\u00a0 I have read two sets of documentation and decided that per diem would be easier and prolly cheaper for them.\u00a0 Just sayin.\u00a0 But today I even got logged into the system.\u00a0 To bad my boss wasn’t listed as an approver and I had to fix that. I would of thought someone would of wanted to take the time to provide some sort of “offical” training\/documentation about what is covered and what isn’t.\u00a0 Oh well next week when I burn an entire day doing my expense report I will remember the good old days of working at a .edu.<\/p>\n
Once I had all the details taken care of came the onset of sheer panic of “WHAT WILL I WEAR!?” For one time I totally became a girl and freaked out.\u00a0 There were suggestions for shopping, borrowing, buying when I got there and wearing the same thing over and over.\u00a0 SOme of those things just really don’t pan out.\u00a0 I did make it to Old Navy for a killer sale to pick up a few tops and some t-shirts.\u00a0 That however didn’t prevent me from having to try on every thing I own to see if I could put together enough clothes for 8 days.\u00a0 And even after that I still got to spend some quality time with my sewing machine.\u00a0 2 pair of pants to hem and a couple tops to take in.\u00a0 WHEW!\u00a0<\/p>\n
I ordered a new laptop\/overnight bag.\u00a0 It’s pretty cool but the handle is far to short to be practical for running through an airport. I picked up a very handy rain coat at Sam’s club.\u00a0 It’s cute, has some linning in it so it should be fairly warm.\u00a0I also borrowed luggage to check.\u00a0 My poor suitcase has been traveling for sometime and when the handle decides to stop working it becomes a big problem.\u00a0 Airlines don’t like it stuck in the up position and I don’t care to lug it around when it is stuck in the down position.\u00a0 Can’t win! I would buy a new bag but who knows how much I will actually be traveling.<\/p>\n
Alright #SQLPASS and Seattle I am ready!<\/p>\n
It seems that all in all I have everything ready to go.\u00a0It is the first time I have traveled and not cleaned the house from top to bottom before leaving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have deteremined that my stress level the last 1.5 months has been pretty high and I am sure it revolves around #SQLPASS. Here let me explain.<\/p>\n
First there is my company that made me dance around like a puppet and sit on pins and needles while waiting to find out if I was going to get to attend this year. You see last year the “boys” went and I didn’t get to. One of them, who happens to be my boss’s boss would come by and rub it in that he was going and that I wasn’t then I got the drop by stories from PASS for months after. . . . → Read More: Leading up to #SQLPASS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sql","category-technology","category-vacation","odd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}