Since the reason for and sponsor of my trip to town was my job, I'll talk about that briefly. The original reason for me coming back was to attend a meeting which wouldn't have been worth the trip if it were my only reason for being there. However, I had several other things coincide while I was there that kept me quite busy.

I'm working on a project to install, set up, and configure a software application that some people will be using at work, and we were having some issues with the setup that needed an expert to fix. So, we had a consultant come in for 12 hours over the first two days I was there, which kept me occupied a lot of that time. I didn't have to be there the whole time, fortunately, so I could do some other things that I needed to, but it still took up quite a bit of my time. I also had several meetings to go to and didn't have much time to meet face-to-face with my boss. Every day I was there was quite busy, though each day was a little less busy than the day before.

While I wanted to get my job done, it was probably more important to me to get to spend time with people after work. Even though I had been gone only a month, there were a lot of people who wanted to see me, and I wanted to make sure to spend plenty of time with my parents. So, I made myself leave work at 5:00 every day, even though I had enough work to keep me there for at least another hour. I got into work every day at 8:00, which is a little early for me, especially when it required waking up at 4:30 pacific time.