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A colleague who has work in Sacramento, Los Angeles, and Berekeley CA was my original inspiration for business travel zen. I sat him down and told him of my upcoming schedule where I would be splitting my time on each coast. “What advice can you give me Dan? You’re obviously good at this.” He said…

I wake up in the ex-urbs of Chicago, I will go to sleep in Washington DC. My business traveler zen is serving me well. I continue to fight an intestinal bug, miss my wife and son, and after arriving late to the airport, I was selected for extra special screening. I felt no stress, “this…

I am now standing in the longest security line that the TSA employees in the St. Louis airport have ever seen. I slept through my 4:50am alarm and missed my shower. For the rest of the week, I get on a plane bound for a new city every morning. I have some sort of intestinal…

Although I took this photo [which is now missing, thanks Cingular] in rural minnesota, where Jill my anthropomorphised GPS unit sent me on the shortest route from Mayo clinic to St. Louis, I’m already sitting on my mom’s back porch and smoking a cigar. I’m not really quite sure how I did it in under…

They found an infection in my mom and were giving her antibiotics by IV drip pumped by one of those electrical pumps. When the bag was empty the alarm sounded. None of the nurses could hear the alarm go off because this guy was running the vacuum cleaner. This was no big deal, he was…

I’m at mayo trying to get my mom discharged and get her home. I notice that even well run hospitals are still entirely unpleasant places to be. No matter what your age, you don’t have as much time as you think. Don’t waste your days.

oh yes, the grandeur of the mountains in san jose…

Every year my company has a retreat.  The planning of the retreat is complicated but I’m given sole responsibility for the fun activity that precedes it.  This year it’s a Crime Scene Investigation involving a robbery.  (I’m being a little cagey because I know several employees read my blog) Every year we create the teams,…

Of course Malcom Gladwell has written about Cesar, and Sarah’s become addicted to his show, "The Dog Whisperer", but I’d been holding out.  I saw my third episode tonight and I’m hooked too.  He reminds me a lot of Todd, our former dog trainer. Honestly, seeing these people makes me feel less self-conscious about the…

I play hooky from this meeting a lot. I really like this typepad mobile thing.