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November 29, 2005
Life In The Fast Lane (Surely Make You Lose Your Mind)
This is going to be one of those weeks where real life intrudes on my blog a little bit and impacts things here in Curmudgeonland. The next seven days are gonna be one of the biggest weeks of my entire professional career, and blogging's going to have to take second place for a little while.
A quick summary of what's going on... I'm interviewed in a story that should be out today on the national AP wire; this morning I am flying out to the west coast on the company jet to a big conference of top business muckety-mucks... and then Wednesday morning I'm giving the biggest presentation of my career so far, 45 minutes (with Q & A) in front of some of the biggest Fortune 50 type wigs in my field. Suffice it to say that after Wednesday morning, I'm either going to be on this blog with a giddy post about having swung for the fences and hit it out, or with a despondent post about having committed hari-kari upon my professional reputation and upward mobility.
Once the conference is over on Thursday, I am taking advantage of being in California and staying for the weekend; I'll see Dave (the one who got married during last year's infamous Lost Week) as well as some other friends in the Bay Area. Sunday I fly home, Monday afternoon I am co-presenting in Manhattan to 100 of our company's top communications people, and then right afterward I fly up to Toronto, where I'm speaking at a conference Tuesday morning before coming back to New York that evening. Yeah, other people have weeks like this all the time... but how many of them are keeping blogs? ;-)
I'll still try and log on to post every once in a while -- have to comment on each day's Indicted Republican of the Day -- but I probably will be less active this week. Wish me luck - I could use the good vibes and karma - and I'll be on as often as I can during the next week. Peace and humptiness forever, y'all.
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Comments
Good luck, but I think it's highly inconsiderate of the meeting schedulers not to have this event during baseball season when you could go to PacBell Park (is it still called that? I get so confused.).
Posted by: Linkmeister at November 29, 2005 03:20 PM
Give'm hell!! Send me some of your money.
Posted by: Cuzin Jose at November 29, 2005 08:25 PM
Awsome 'mudge
Posted by: usefulguy at November 30, 2005 10:08 PM
...even if I still can't spell...
Posted by: usefulguy at November 30, 2005 10:08 PM
word is, you done good Mudge.
congrats
Posted by: Marquette Hoops at December 1, 2005 10:35 AM
Fantastic! Yell if you want coaching, chart reviewing, pointers on how to tie a tie, SpinMD's Toastmasters book, etc...
Posted by: SarahsDad at December 1, 2005 10:52 PM
Good luck Mudge, sure you will have them in the palm of your hands. Mind, deep breath and wee dram before you go on..just for that wee zing in the step..:-)
Posted by: mcrob at December 2, 2005 03:44 AM
Thanks, everybody. Really appreciate the good wishes and thoughts. Yeah, it would appear that I survived the experience with my reputation (though not my stomach) intact. You're always your own worst critic, so I thought when I'd finished that I'd sucked. But, I seem to be the only one who thought so, so I guess it went okay.
Was a great conference - one of the best things I've ever been involved in. Really cool week.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at December 2, 2005 10:48 AM
