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Andrew Michaels
@AndrewMichaels · 2:06

Weekly Word: Schlep

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Should be able to find a place to rest there pretty easily, finish the rest of the drive relatively early on Sunday, probably another six, seven, maybe 8 hours, just depending on any breaks that we need to take. Then halfway through the week, I'm going to be doing another drive across New Jersey because I'm staying in my in laws house in South Jersey for the first half of the week and then going to my parents houses

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@DBPardes
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:53

When life feels like a schlep… like this morning…

How great to hear your voice and what a timely, funny well, I'm sitting in an airport in Melbourne, Australia. I got here at 05:00 only to find out that my 630 flight was canceled. So they had me waiting till but they won't check my luggage so I can't go into the area where there's comfortable chairs. So I'm literally sitting by the taxis and the door. And I didn't sleep because I had to wake up at 03:00 a.m.
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@Her_Sisu
J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisu · 3:08
And what I would say to my peers when we would arrange coverage for holidays, because I work in health care, not direct patient care, but leadership. And when we would arrange coverage for holidays, I would say I would cover all of the holidays. I don't care. Put my name down. July 4. Mother's Day. Father's Day. Easter. Veterans Day. All of them. Put me down
@Howie
Howie Rubin
@Howie · 3:08

@AndrewMichaels

We found that we could make the eight hour drive in eleven or 12 hours and of late have driven through. We have also planned a trip around rest areas, and we found that the first trip would be best served if you stopped and went through Ohio and stopped in Pennsylvania. So there are a couple of towns maybe 30, 40 miles past the border
@AndrewMichaels
Andrew Michaels
@AndrewMichaels · 0:34

@Howie

Howie, thank you so much for telling me about this. This is just so funny to think about. Number one, just absolute kudos to you for even doing that with kids. You know, I'm not at that stage of my life yet, as much as my grandmother would like me to be, so, you know, I truly could not imagine it now lucky with Chicago traffic. I'm not actually leaving from Chicago
@AndrewMichaels
Andrew Michaels
@AndrewMichaels · 0:33

@DBPardes

As I'm sure you can tell from my last post, it's been a little busy for me for the last few days. So I guess all I have to say about the airport is I hope you're not still there
@AndrewMichaels
Andrew Michaels
@AndrewMichaels · 1:35

@Her_Sisu

Thank you so, so much for sharing this. The whole story was really incredible, and your family just sounds genuinely amazing. One thing that you said that really hit close to the soul for me personally was what you said about banking up all that time at the very beginning, before I started at moment, I actually used to work at a call center. And if you haven't worked at a call center, it is very, very strict about time off
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