I had my first four-continent conference call this week. The morning started like this: 4:03 (GMT-8): After a few hours’ sleep, I wake up, worried about missing the call. The giant red numbers on the alarm clock scream at me “You have two hours. Go back to sleep.” I obeyed… 4:14: For a few minutes… […]
Sometime tomorrow, you may hear something that sounds like a tennis ball can being opened very, very slowly. It won’t be a new trio of tennis balls, but rather a can of whoop-ass. And I will be opening it before I chew out a travel agent. Susan Dennis style. As part of meeting our corporate
As happened to Susan, my American Express/Costco card went AWOL. I’ve been through this enough that I have a theory how it happens: Unlike WalMart, the “greeter” at Costco’s entrance is primarily there to ensure I’m an actual Costco member. Sometimes they’ll hand me coupons valid for the following week. (“Six thousand tooth brushes for
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I’m coming down from yesterday’s math-dorphin high, having found the optimal point for the set of variables. How did I do? Be there to conduct my business. Uh-huh. Minimize the cost to the company – This was trickier than I had hoped. The airfares for Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday departures were $880, $911, $1,400
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Business trips bring out one of my weaknesses: trying to exploit the airline pricing system for my own, secretive purposes. For example, I finally have a set of dates for Norway (Germany fell-through) and have spent waaaaaay too much time trying to balance the factors important to me: Be there to conduct my business. Obviously.
While watching bits of this weekend’s NFL playoff games this weekend, I worked on my scarf. At the rate it’s going, I should be finished by next weekend’s games, just in time for the cold weather to abate. Or so I can hope. This “Fahrenheit 15.4” stuff is getting tiresome. I’m looking forward to
This apparently dates back to 2003, but was amusing… The Hokey Pokey,as it would have been sung in its native Klingon written by Shakespeare (author: Jeff Brechlin) O proud left foot, that ventures quick within Then soon upon a backward journey lithe Anon, once more the gesture, then begin: Command sinistral pedestal to writhe. Commence
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Since there were a couple of requests, and some disbelief (*cough*, Jennifer) here is the scarf-in-progress, also known as “Scarf ]I[” or “When I finish this, there will be warm weather” scarf. My hand is strategically placed over some design elements: knitting my name into the pattern. If my name was a series of random