I hope that the powers-that-be will not object, but since this thread was already here and since it was inspired by events soon to transpire, I thought it would 'borrow' it for a little fun.
I've been cleaning out my office and going through about 27 years of stuff (my first 8 years with the company are stashed away in some boxes in my garage at home but I won't get to them until well after I retire) and thought that I might share some of the more interesting things that I've been sorting through.
Most of you are aware that I travel a lot (I've got over 3.6 million miles with American Airlines alone), attending conferences, visiting customers, speaking at user group meetings and the such. Anyway, here's my collection of airline boarding passes:
Of course, if you're going to traveling that much, you must be staying in hotels. Well here's a stack of hotel card keys (the stack probably doesn't cover all of the last 27 years because I don't think cards keys have been around that long):
And where was it that I was going on these trips? As I stated earlier, mostly conferences, trade fairs, users groups, etc, and of course at events like this, you get badges and name tags:
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this bit of nostalgia. I know I did, even though it's been a bit hard to throw away stuff like this that in many ways are more representative of what I've been doing these last 35+ years, that is interacting with people in business settings all over the world yet at the some time forming friendships which have lasted decades in some cases, and recently many new ones as I made this last year's tour of regional users meetings.
P.S. I may have some other stuff to share before my last day on the job, which is two weeks from today.
Well I'm making progress on cleaning out my office and thought I'd post a few more tidbits. For example, this map pin-points all the places in North America that I've visited over the past 35+ year while on company business:
At home I've got a map of the world that shows all the places that I've traveled which also includes pins for the 33 countries that I've visited while on company business (like I said, I've flown over 3.6 million miles with American Airlines alone).
