On the Road for Work

One of my responsibilities at work is to teach training classes - I like teaching. Unfortunately this means traveling to the clients site for three or four days.

Travel for work is glamorous for about 2.8 pico-seconds.

Yes, I get to eat at restaurants and see cool things like baseball games sometimes, but it's mostly just time spent in hotel rooms - depressingly similar hotel rooms. Technology helps. I can use facetime google+ or skype to see and talk with my family, and mobile phones mean I'm never really that far away - at least my voice isn't. But in the end it isn't the same.

Work travel also hurts gaming. Google+ is great, but can't substitute for being there. I'm looking forward to some new tools. Tabletop Forge (a recent kickstarter) looks promising. However, this also depends on the host having internet access.

So I'm away from home this week, missing family, missing gaming. Reduced to reading gaming books for ideas for my next campaign - hmmmm an oil platform drilling into an undiscovered alien sanctuary - this might work...