Worldcon Trip Day 30: More Travel Plans
Aug. 22nd, 2024 10:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kevin_standleeAs we've not yet been able to find a place for Lisa to settle down for the rest of the European stay, I booked four more nights at the hotel where she's staying (IHG points being useful here; stay three nights on points and the fourth night is free). They will try and sort that out and maybe get her an inexpensive mobile phone (no smartphones or anything with a touchscreen) so at least she has a way to call me and others.
It took several tries, but I discovered that there is a way to call Lisa directly at her hotel by dropping the last digit of the hotel's phone number and adding her room number. I've never seen that before, but once I got it working, it was very convenient.
I continue to log hours at the Day Jobbe, trying to be productive and visible to my co-workers. I do have some flexibility with my hours as long as I get work done and attend our regular daily staff meeting so that they can see me. (Although normally we keep our cameras off. I did turn it on briefly on the first day here to show them where I was working.) This is useful because we need to do some shopping on Friday that would eat into the time at the start of my temporarily normal work day. That's okay, though, because there is always stuff coming in overnight on which I can work this morning, hours before most people would expect me to see it.
It took several tries, but I discovered that there is a way to call Lisa directly at her hotel by dropping the last digit of the hotel's phone number and adding her room number. I've never seen that before, but once I got it working, it was very convenient.
I continue to log hours at the Day Jobbe, trying to be productive and visible to my co-workers. I do have some flexibility with my hours as long as I get work done and attend our regular daily staff meeting so that they can see me. (Although normally we keep our cameras off. I did turn it on briefly on the first day here to show them where I was working.) This is useful because we need to do some shopping on Friday that would eat into the time at the start of my temporarily normal work day. That's okay, though, because there is always stuff coming in overnight on which I can work this morning, hours before most people would expect me to see it.
