Updated
May 6, 2004
The first half
of this year has been much like the bulk of last year -- lots of
travel for work, and lots of time spent with the family doing regular
stuff on the weekends and down-time. In a way, it seems all so
'normal' that there hasn't been anything I really felt like 'saying'
in a journal, so I thought: "If you don't have anything interesting
to say, don't say anything."
But then I remembered...
I never have anything interesting to say!! That hasn't stopped
me in the past!
Oh, well -- Can't
look back -- only forward (and to recent past, not months and months...)
We just got back last week from a trip to Washington DC. I had
a client
Annual Meeting to go to (we heard Homeland Security Department
Sec. Tom Ridge speak) and I decided to take Katie, the boys and
Nana. We had a really good time at all the monuments and museums
-- and I got work done at the same time.
Next real trip
is to Orlando again, but Just Katie and I. My friend Travis and
I are speaking at a meeting, and since I travel so much, Katie
flys free with me whereever I go, so we figured we'd make a trip
out of it.
Anyhow, right
now I'm on the final 2 weeks of a pretty large / cool / good project
in Dallas; I'm managing a consultant we have doing some work in
Memphis; and working on our Sarbanes-Oxley opportunities. We should
know next week if we get a project in Denver / Tulsa, and if so,
I can add that to my travel zones.
Katie is taking
the travel thing really well, although I know it's hard on her.
The boys are OK, but I can tell that my being gone is leading to
some issues with them -- they need me around. And I need them.
This weekend
it's off to the beach -- for the first time since I broke my elbow
(on Good Friday, skim-boarding). We're going down for Mother's
Day -- but really just going to go, since we haven't been down
for a month. We're all looking forward to a bit of sand and sun
and surf. I got some new fishing tackle for the boys, so we'll
probably do a little more fishing in the bay this time, too.
