Matt Holthe's Fleeting Thoughts

I was just gathering up my travel statistics for 2019 (yes, we're almost 2 full months into 2020, I know). What's interesting is comparing the 7 year averages from 2007 (when I started my current job) through 2013 and the 6 year averages from 2014 (when travel slowed way down and I started doing more and more remotely) through 2019. From 2007 through 2013, I averaged 57 work nights a year on the road (basically, Sunday night through Thursday night, excluding holidays and vacations). This meant I was on the road 25.8% of the work nights. Factoring in the entire year (including vacations when I was away from home) I averaged spending the night somewhere besides home 86.6 nights a year, or 24.3% of the year. Starting with 2014, I was still doing about the same number of trips away from home. (Slightly fewer, but not by a significant amount) But now I'm spending an average of 2.8% of the work nights away from home (6.3 work nights per year) and 8.3% of the total calendar ni...

The Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl last night 31-20. They were down in the fourth quarter. (The guy who sits in the row next to mine has said multiple times "with 5 minutes to go", which isn't true - they scored with a little over 6 minutes to go to bring it within 3). They were down every game in the post season and won all of them. My daughter was rooting for the Chiefs, but she didn't really have much reasoning behind it. But at least she went to bed happy last night because "her team" won the game.