Hi, everyone. Welcome to the Golden ratio podcast. I am Jen, Jair Mom, joined us always by Jair Dad. Hi. How's it going, Jair Dad? Good. It's good to have you back. I am glad to be home. Yes. With a week on the road and many traveled trials and tribulations. I have returned it to the household. Luckily, not much happened here while you were gone.

That is profoundly untrue. That's why it's funny. The cocktail of the week this week is hang on. It's called StabVeryLate. That's the name of the cocktail. StabVeryLate. It is gin, cognac, lemon juice, sugar syrup, a dash of absent topped with some soda. Absence makes you crazy. StabVeryLate. Wee. That's a pretty good one. It's a good name.

The pattern lately is picking cocktails based on name. Of course. Yeah. It's a good one. But that actually sounds pretty tasty too. Okay. Good name. We got a lot of things to talk about. We have administrative corner. We have dog updates. We have ramblings. We have taste of the keys. There is so much. We have German word of the week, which isn't on my list because it's your responsibility. But there's so many things. I'm going to comb a toast just from all these things. I'm overwhelmed by thing. This is going to be like a thing.

Three hour podcast if we talk about all this. I always say that and then it's like 51 minutes. Oh, six minutes longer than usual. What do you want to do first? What section? Admin. Admin. All right. I have two items on administrative corner. All right. Two things. We have a San Francisco story and a Boston story. Why those two cities? It's no way you were in both those cities. There's no way. I was in New York.

I don't even believe it. I can't even. So let's start. We look to go chronologically San Francisco. Okay. I took one, two, three, four, five, six flights this week. Yeah. Were any of them on time like any of them in the right direction. Some of them were some of them were backtracking. So I was in San Francisco for work. And then I flew from San Francisco to DC. And the

flight that I love to take from San Francisco to DC leaves between 4.30 and 5 p.m. San Francisco time and arrives right around 12.30 to 1 a.m. DC time. It's a great flight because it's like not a red eye because you

don't have to sleep on the plane. I'm normally up at that hour anyway. So I get home right when I would normally go to bed. It's a great flight. You don't lose a whole day traveling across the

country. You just kind of get on the plane. Have dinner. Go to bed at the normal time for our non-American friends. Red eye is referred to the West Coast to the East Coast flights where you leave it like 9 p.m. And you get in at 5 a.m. Or something ridiculous.

God, those are terrible. They're all in narrow body planes. And there's no movies. They just turn the lights off and throw a bunch of blankets at you if you're lucky. Oh, if you're lucky. Yeah. No, they're terrible.

I hate them. I hate to wake up with red eyes landing at like 4.30 in the morning. They're terrible. It's the worst. Just the way the time zones work. Though that's what they do. So I was on the 4.40 United Airlines flight from San Francisco to DC. And I get to the airport. And I get to my gate. And I get a notice on my phone that my flights delayed two hours.

Oh, those are key hours in the middle of the night. And I had a hotel that I could have been hanging out of, but I didn't get the alert until I got to the airport left. You checked out of your hotel. That's right. I could have stayed. But whatever. So I'm like, well, I guess I'm going to sit here for two hours. So I like found a little spot next to an open gate. And I'm like with a plug with a plug. Yeah, sitting there working on my computer.

And this was a speaking event. So my speakers bureau books all my flights and hotels like they handle all the logistics for me. And so I get an email from my logistics person at the speakers bureau. That's like, hey, the United Operations team is looking for you at the SFO United Operations team is looking for you. And I was like, that can't be good.

I think they're going to be good or bad. Am I in trouble? What did I draw? I was at least like 60% I'm in trouble. And I don't know why something bad has happened left blow high somewhere or something that would have been mild.

I don't think they would have been able to track blow high. I'm thinking more like, maybe I'm going to be arrested. Yeah, I know. But you don't have any explosives probably. No, no, I know better.

So I after much difficulty. There's a lot of backing and fore thing and a rounding and I'm waiting. I finally got a hold of the person who's looking for me. And I was like, hey, this is Jen go back. I got an email. You're looking for me. And she goes, finally, are you here? And I was like, yeah, I'm sitting over by this game. Just like, stay there. We'll come to you.

Oh, that's always bad. That's like, I would not I would have run. I think I would have run. I would have been like, I'm going to go to a different gate and then watch what happens to the gate.

Anyway, this very nice woman showed up with a gift bag and escorted me to the club to wait.

G our mom. And it had like a super nice note to G our mom, wishing me luck in the Boston Marathon. It had presents for the dogs. It had little bandanas and tennis balls, ball, it was the most charming, thoughtful little present.

So I don't know. Oh, they took a picture of them giving me the gift bag in the club. You were like regretting that you could dress for comfort. I literally was wearing sweatpants, which I almost never do.

But anyway, they were super nice about it. So I don't know who the friends of the squad are in United operations.

Who told you?

But it's clearly very close followers who knew that I was not just that I was G our mom, but that I was running the marathon and all kinds of stuff. It was so, so nice.

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