I did a variant of my quick LA trip which is usually 3 or 4 nights, and this time just did 2 nights! Flew in Fri eve (landed Fri 6pm) and flew out Sun eve (Sunday 24:50 / Monday AM) and land Tues 5am.
The ugly:
- pretty tired and jetlagged in LA the whole 2 days
- feels bit short, I think 3 days is better
- cost per day is very high
The good:
- only have to use 1 vacation day!
- get some quick shopping in and see mom for 48hrs which is a good healthy dose (not overdose!)
- not enough time to adjust to jetlag, so in theory I'll be ok when I land in TK in 9hrs
One takeaway from my LA visits...
- people are way too fat here.. no offense to fat readers. I was at cheesecake factory and this old lady next to me must have literally been 350lbs.. i couldn't distinguish her torso from her thighs it was a big blob. to top it off, while perusing desserts and asking the waitress for advice, she balked at some dessert due to the high calories. omg lady... its too late, just forget it..
- for tech, even with the diminishing # of bookstores (barnes & nobles my favorite), its still great to have them to go and browse. my generation is a borders/barnes generation (I think or its just me) and being able to go to the bookstore and browse is hard to replace online. Also i skimmed like 5 books on:
- react.js (i hear is the hot stuff for web)
- node.js (old stuff but refresh)
- swift (seems nobody would design a language in this era w/o closures)
- big data (no clue)
- apache spark (hadoop stuff)
and picked up a book on Go programming. I think its way easier to keep up w/ whats going on in the industry when you have a bookstore to go to when bored and just pick up stuff in the isle and flip thru each book for 15min. somehow the attention span is there at the bookstore knowing you have limited time and dont want to buy stuff -- as opposed to mobile phone/pc where i may open an article but rarely finish it. maybe its just me?
anyways i need to get back on top of a few things... i have this new 5yr plan..
The ugly:
- pretty tired and jetlagged in LA the whole 2 days
- feels bit short, I think 3 days is better
- cost per day is very high
The good:
- only have to use 1 vacation day!
- get some quick shopping in and see mom for 48hrs which is a good healthy dose (not overdose!)
- not enough time to adjust to jetlag, so in theory I'll be ok when I land in TK in 9hrs
One takeaway from my LA visits...
- people are way too fat here.. no offense to fat readers. I was at cheesecake factory and this old lady next to me must have literally been 350lbs.. i couldn't distinguish her torso from her thighs it was a big blob. to top it off, while perusing desserts and asking the waitress for advice, she balked at some dessert due to the high calories. omg lady... its too late, just forget it..
- for tech, even with the diminishing # of bookstores (barnes & nobles my favorite), its still great to have them to go and browse. my generation is a borders/barnes generation (I think or its just me) and being able to go to the bookstore and browse is hard to replace online. Also i skimmed like 5 books on:
- react.js (i hear is the hot stuff for web)
- node.js (old stuff but refresh)
- swift (seems nobody would design a language in this era w/o closures)
- big data (no clue)
- apache spark (hadoop stuff)
and picked up a book on Go programming. I think its way easier to keep up w/ whats going on in the industry when you have a bookstore to go to when bored and just pick up stuff in the isle and flip thru each book for 15min. somehow the attention span is there at the bookstore knowing you have limited time and dont want to buy stuff -- as opposed to mobile phone/pc where i may open an article but rarely finish it. maybe its just me?
anyways i need to get back on top of a few things... i have this new 5yr plan..
