The flight from New York to Denver was canceled. Then the replacement was canceled too.
I had come east for interviews and personal time. I sent a friend the shortest possible report: “Interviews were great, high hopes.”
Getting home was less successful.
The first cancellation left me in New York another night. The second kept me there long enough that the consulting schedule in Denver started moving around it.
A new T1 circuit was supposed to be turned up for one of my side clients. I was answering the network thread from my phone between flight updates. We discussed timing, a backup interface, and what could be prepared before I was physically back.
The circuit work has its own sequence. The router and firewall can be prepared, the backup path needs to remain available, and the final work has to wait until the timing is clear. I am trying to answer those questions while the airline keeps changing mine.
Some of the preparation can happen remotely. We are working out what can be ready before I am physically back for the cutover.
Beatport is in Denver. The side work is in Denver and Boulder. This round of interviews brought me to New York.
The canceled flights leave me in New York, telling Denver when I can touch the network.
After two days, I finally made it home.
By then the network thread had been moving for the same two days. My arrival determines which parts I can handle in person and when the remaining work can be scheduled.
The interviews went well. The flights did not. The T1 work waited for the new schedule while I worked my way back to Colorado.