Digi-Scene

I love San Francisco. Honestly, I can't pinpoint exactly why I feel such an affinity for that city, but I feel very much at home there. I loved the little boutique hotel we stayed at near Union Square and all of the holiday decorations. It helped me to at least start feeling the holiday spirit. San Diego makes it hard to feel "Christmasy".

I just got back from a trip there to participate in a pitch to another data storage company. It went incredibly well and I hope we get the business. However, it's an interesting fact that I actually had to ask to be able to participate in this presentation. Our VP of Strategy and the sales guy needed to include my functional area in the presentation, but some reason they initially wanted to present my stuff remotely via WebEx, while both the SEO and Creative team would be presenting in person. I wrote a pointed email to the sales guy to ask him why I was being excluded from the in-person presentation. He didn't have a good explanation and actually apologized for excluding me. I don't think there was anything deliberate in his exclusion of me, but I'm glad I spoke up to nip this kind of thing in the bud.

More travel to San Jose next week. I'm certainly looking forward to the holidays and going back to Utah to see my family.