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The best way I can think to describe the feeling of being a single business traveler is this: you’re at a city coffee shop at 5 minutes to 8 on a Monday morning, there’s a long line of caffeine fiends behind you—and your order is wrong. What do you do? Maybe you reorder. Maybe you take it. It’s not a situation in which you can cast a hypothetical prediction of what-you-would-do-if. You think you’re on your time, but everyone else thinks you’re on their time. All you can say of this hypothetical scenario is that if you were the one making your latte at home, you would have gotten it right. But you’re not at home.

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My boss stopped by my desk and said, “You want to go to a conference in Denver?”

 Yes!

She additionally suggested that, because Denver is a cool city and the conference would take place all day Thursday and Friday morning, that I should consider taking a day or two to myself to enjoy the west.  I did.

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