Joe gets all kinds of offers for conferences & lectures & workshops. Sometimes he goes, mostly he doesn't. There usually isn't enough value to justify having his work pile up while he's away, and the thrill of travel is long gone. And he's got some boring, useless, required thing next week.
Last week his boss forwarded a conference on something-or-other that pertains to his work. However, none of the presenters work in the defense industry, so he said it wasn't worthwhile. Just one problem. It's in Phoenix, the end of Feb.
Let's say this all together now: "HELLO?!?!?!?" Where does his wife love to visit, and where did she not get to go last year because of major horrible surgery, and where has she already started planning for this year? Everyone knows the answer, right?
Fortunately, while he was telling me about it, he realized his near-fatal error. I thought this would be an easy correction, but evidently he has to justify the trip to someone higher than his boss (who doesn't care). So I must wait to find out if we get a partially free trip. If we do, we'll go on a Fri, go up to Sedona so I can hike in the red rocks for 2 entire days (whilst avoiding vortex-seekers), then come back to Phoenix where I can hike locally with friends while he goes to the useless conference. Then maybe another day in Phoenix. All without missing ASL class.
Stay tuned.
Update - the trip didn't get approved, and he didn't want to go and have to sit in a boring conference while I was out having fun anyway. So we're going for an entire week in April & I am very impatiently waiting....and waiting.....and waiting.........
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That’s easy to justify. The conference has nothing to do with the defense industry so it will expose asymmetric methodologies that can be used to enter into new markets and successfully compete with non-self-industry operators thereby improving the industry-specific resources available to strengthen existing departmental strategies and also penetrate new institutional areas previously unavailable due to limited informational data points.
Did I talk like that before the brain injury? Oh, I did, didn't I.
Good luck.
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