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So the original original plan was that I would take off Friday 12/23 and head up to Boston to see my girlfriend. I haven't mentioned her much here, but we started dating this summer, I think I wrote briefly about our first meeting, and anyway she is really great and long-distance sucks and I was looking forward to spending a weekend together.
Then three of our people at work down on an installation in Houston got COVID and we were set back a bunch by that, so my boss asked me to fly out last Sunday and spend a few days in Houston helping us to catch up. I was supposed to fly back Wednesday afternoon, so the new plan was get back Wednesday, spend Thursday in the office, and then head up Friday as originally planned.
But when I got down to Houston we were further behind than anticipated, so my boss asked me to extend my trip another day. I said fine, as long as I could switch my flight to go straight to Boston. So the new new plan was to fly out Thursday afternoon, get to Boston, and then spend the long weekend with R.
Fine, that all worked out reasonably well, the week in Houston was long and extremely exhausting and mentally and physically taxing, but we made a lot of progress and I flew out Thursday afternoon. Or evening, really, because the flight was delayed almost two hours because of mechanical problems, but I made it to my hotel in Boston around midnight.
And then R texted me Friday morning that she'd just tested positive for COVID, so there went a lot of our plans for the weekend, and we had to regroup and figure out a new plan. I see from reading my rlist that a number of you have had plans changed by COVID in the past few days, which makes me feel a little less alone, but still, it was very frustrating.
We ended up cutting everything down to a couple hours each day of outdoor masked hanging out, basically until we hit our physical limits given the temperatures in the 20s or 30s for most of the time I was there. I had a nice Shabbos dinner at the house of a local Rabbi and dealt with meals otherwise in my hotel room. R ordered me Chinese food for Shabbos lunch. Sunday we went for a walk in Coolidge Corner, getting lunch from a bagel place and stopping in at a bookstore. It was still really good to get to spend in person time with her, but it was so disappointing to have to settle for what we got.
Sunday evening I did the semi-non-tradition of watching a terrible Christian movie with Jewish CTY friends. We watched the new nativity musical Journey to Bethlehem, from the music director of Glee, with Antonio Banderas as Herod and an amazing donkey. It was bad. Very bad.
And then Monday I took a train back to Jersey and I am back at work today. With all the travel, I feel a little off balance but I'm hoping I will catch up to myself soon.
Then three of our people at work down on an installation in Houston got COVID and we were set back a bunch by that, so my boss asked me to fly out last Sunday and spend a few days in Houston helping us to catch up. I was supposed to fly back Wednesday afternoon, so the new plan was get back Wednesday, spend Thursday in the office, and then head up Friday as originally planned.
But when I got down to Houston we were further behind than anticipated, so my boss asked me to extend my trip another day. I said fine, as long as I could switch my flight to go straight to Boston. So the new new plan was to fly out Thursday afternoon, get to Boston, and then spend the long weekend with R.
Fine, that all worked out reasonably well, the week in Houston was long and extremely exhausting and mentally and physically taxing, but we made a lot of progress and I flew out Thursday afternoon. Or evening, really, because the flight was delayed almost two hours because of mechanical problems, but I made it to my hotel in Boston around midnight.
And then R texted me Friday morning that she'd just tested positive for COVID, so there went a lot of our plans for the weekend, and we had to regroup and figure out a new plan. I see from reading my rlist that a number of you have had plans changed by COVID in the past few days, which makes me feel a little less alone, but still, it was very frustrating.
We ended up cutting everything down to a couple hours each day of outdoor masked hanging out, basically until we hit our physical limits given the temperatures in the 20s or 30s for most of the time I was there. I had a nice Shabbos dinner at the house of a local Rabbi and dealt with meals otherwise in my hotel room. R ordered me Chinese food for Shabbos lunch. Sunday we went for a walk in Coolidge Corner, getting lunch from a bagel place and stopping in at a bookstore. It was still really good to get to spend in person time with her, but it was so disappointing to have to settle for what we got.
Sunday evening I did the semi-non-tradition of watching a terrible Christian movie with Jewish CTY friends. We watched the new nativity musical Journey to Bethlehem, from the music director of Glee, with Antonio Banderas as Herod and an amazing donkey. It was bad. Very bad.
And then Monday I took a train back to Jersey and I am back at work today. With all the travel, I feel a little off balance but I'm hoping I will catch up to myself soon.