{"id":489,"date":"2006-02-08T20:39:10","date_gmt":"2006-02-09T03:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=489"},"modified":"2006-02-08T20:51:17","modified_gmt":"2006-02-09T03:51:17","slug":"another-kind-of-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=489","title":{"rendered":"Another Kind of Waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted the bit about waiting on Sprint customer service. Within a half-hour I had a comment from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salondemaria.blogspot.com\" target=\"_Blank\">a woman<\/a> who appears to be in the customer service business. I am sometimes surprised at how fast things can get around on the Internet!. Heather posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/heather.rnsmith.com\/?p=25\" target=\"_Blank\">short note<\/a> about Ty receiving an AARP application in the mail. Quite funny and definitely worth a read!<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I have to go back into the office at 10 p.m. for my boss&#8217;s all-hands quarterly meeting. It&#8217;s held at 10 p.m. Pocatello time to accomodate our employees in Manila. That puts the meeting mid-day in the Philippines, but early morning in Belgium and late night in Pocatello. So, I&#8217;m just doing some small stuff until time to drive back into the office for the meeting. <\/p>\n<p>The travel schedules for my trip are pretty well completed. I&#8217;ll be staying at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebellevue.com.ph\/\" target=\"_Blank\">The Bellevue<\/a> for the week that I&#8217;m there. The travel schedule is:<\/p>\n<table border=\"2\">\n<tr>\n<th>Local Time<\/th>\n<th>Pocatello Time<\/th>\n<th>Action<\/th>\n<th>Location<\/th>\n<th>Flight\/Length<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>20 Feb at 6:40 am<\/td>\n<td>20 Feb at 6:40 am<\/td>\n<td>Leave<\/td>\n<td>Pocatello<\/td>\n<td>DL 3675<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7:39 am<\/td>\n<td>7:39 am<\/td>\n<td>Arrive<\/td>\n<td>Salt Lake<\/td>\n<td>0:59<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8:14 am<\/td>\n<td>8:14 am<\/td>\n<td>Leave<\/td>\n<td>SLC<\/td>\n<td>DL 3935<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9:09 am<\/td>\n<td>10:09 am<\/td>\n<td>Arrive<\/td>\n<td>Portland<\/td>\n<td>1:55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>12:25 pm<\/td>\n<td>1:25 pm<\/td>\n<td>Leave<\/td>\n<td>Portland<\/td>\n<td>NW 5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>21 Feb at 4:05 pm<\/td>\n<td>21 Feb at 12:05 am<\/td>\n<td>Arrive<\/td>\n<td>Tokyo<\/td>\n<td>10:40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7:00 pm<\/td>\n<td>3:00 am<\/td>\n<td>Leave<\/td>\n<td>Tokyo<\/td>\n<td>NW 19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10:55 pm<\/td>\n<td>7:55 am<\/td>\n<td>Arrive<\/td>\n<td>Manila<\/td>\n<td>4:55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"5\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1 Mar at 8:00 am<\/td>\n<td>28 Feb at 5:00 pm<\/td>\n<td>Leave<\/td>\n<td>Manila<\/td>\n<td>NW 20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1:00 pm<\/td>\n<td>9:00 pm<\/td>\n<td>Arrive<\/td>\n<td>Tokyo<\/td>\n<td>4:00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3:15 pm<\/td>\n<td>11:15 pm<\/td>\n<td>Leave<\/td>\n<td>Tokyo<\/td>\n<td>NW 6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7:25 am<\/td>\n<td>1 Mar at 8:25 am<\/td>\n<td>Arrive<\/td>\n<td>Portland<\/td>\n<td>9:10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9:30 am<\/td>\n<td>10:38 am<\/td>\n<td>Leave<\/td>\n<td>Portland<\/td>\n<td>DL 3936<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>12:25 pm<\/td>\n<td>12:25 pm<\/td>\n<td>Arrive<\/td>\n<td>Salt Lake<\/td>\n<td>1:47<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3:05 pm<\/td>\n<td>3:05 pm<\/td>\n<td>Leave<\/td>\n<td>Salt Lake<\/td>\n<td>DL 3677<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4:00 pm<\/td>\n<td>4:00 pm<\/td>\n<td>Arrive<\/td>\n<td>Pocatello<\/td>\n<td>0:55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The trip door to door takes about 30 hours each way. Those are very long days &#8212; filled with yet another kind of waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted the bit about waiting on Sprint customer service. Within a half-hour I had a comment from a woman who appears to be in the customer service business. I am sometimes surprised at how fast things can get around on the Internet!. Heather posted a short note about Ty receiving an AARP application in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=489\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another Kind of Waiting<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-7T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}