OMG! Who Lives Here?

One hundred freakin' sixteen degrees in Palm Springs yesterday, 110 today. The trade show organizers had an arranged for lunch out by the pool. So unpleasant! I have finally given up my dream of going to Burning Man. I just can't take the heat.

Busy fall tradeshow season is upon us

Oh my, 6 events in 3 weeks! Fortunately I only have to go to 4 of them. Did one last week, 2 this week and one next week.

It got a bit crazy trying to provision all of them and make sure the right materials got shipped on time to the right place. All the while doing my day jobs...

Why is it that when new execs join a company, the work load doubles? Shouldn't more people on board reduce the work? ((Hah!)

Tomorrow I'm off to Palm Springs; then on to Detroit Tuesday. No time to enjoy either place. Next week, I'll have an evening in Greenvile, SC. Our distributor is having their annual partner summit and I'm going to that. Looking forward to BBQ!

But, I had new hardware installed on Monday - bands on my back molars. The top ones are really messing with my cheeks. Been living on yougurt smoothies and soup for a few days, and am healing slowly. I miss eating. So I'm hoping I can manage some famous South Carolina pulled pork next week. last time I when there, in the spring, my inbound flight was so late I didn't get dinner, and was out the next afternoon. So this time, I have 2 days there and should manage one BBQ dinner.

Time to go tend the laundry and pack. The annoying washer is beeping ... why do we let our products make such awful noises?

STOP THE PRESSES!!

Headline at Yahoo today:

"A new study finds that the average gamer is overweight, shy, and mentally depressed." .... YA THINK????

The summer is flying by

I dropped out for a while due to business. Working to get back in a schedule again. I've gotten to visit Rochester once in June and July; visited my aunt & uncle in Ft Myers, wrote a chapter for a book, decided to keep the house in Rochester, went to the memorial service of a friend, had a birthday, invited a guest into the spare bedroom for a few weeks, made friends with the next door neighbor, rode my bike in several new places near Home West, walked the Stanford Dish, joined a health club and now, have braces on my teeth. Ooof! What a summer.

humbled, awed, thankful

My life is extraordinary. Take today, for example. My big project was to work on unpackimg. I started after a workout, stop at the bank. And a few chores. It took hours to unpack just 8 boxes. And it's been a huge week at work so I am tired (and a night out on Thursday, up to midnight) so today the hard thing is to stay at the unpacking and finding places to put everything.

Then Dan texted, and we evolved a plan for him to drop over. I was scrambling to do a final tidy and Renee called. She and Barry were outside to reclaim her truck that I'd been borrowing. Its battery took exception to sitting unused for a week.so they came over to jump it and go.

While we were in process, Renee mentioned that she'd been helping someone pack today. I said I should have offered boxes.as I have so many. Barry lit up and said "Boxes? I'll take em!" And he did! They loaded the extra carpet - removed from the office room, she'll use it in her garage - and then the boxes. Oh my god, it was such a gift and delight! Now I have room in the second garage to get to the rest of my stuff and gradually unpack.

I had no idea how I was going to get rid of them. And friends showed up and poof! Boxes gone!

Then Dan showed up with wine. We sat out on my upstairs deck in the beautiful warm evening. Just before he left he offered me a choice from the DVDs he had. "Charlie Wilsons War" is currently playing.

I am looking around at the walls wrapped in the paint that Kristem helped me pick. While I was gone, Peri supervised the painters. Theo installed a new showerhead; he and Holly and Renee and Barry moved me out of my storage unit.

I've unpacked the quilt that Maggie made me, the rug I bought in Jordan while on tour with the Ladies International Association of Munich, the photos of family ... Love everywhere.

I have a tribe. Love you all!!!

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OOOOO it's COLD!

In Rochester, packing up. Well, pre-packing. The professional packers come on Monday; so I am doing the sorting and organizing and throwing out that I managed to not do all last year while on my intense travel schedule.

Woke up to a beautiful looking day. Turned on the TV to catch the weather report. It's 23 degrees out!!!! So I won't plan on a morning walk but run up and down the stairs with boxes instead. And I'm very much looking forward to getting back Home West later in the week where the temperatures are humane.

The best thing that humankind invented

Libraries. And all they imply.

Sitting in the public library in Mt View, grateful for the connection. I moved into my place almost 2 weeks ago, have been camping there while deciding what to do about my stuff on the other side of the country, and getting some work done on the place and - oh yeah - working at a start-up that is getting more intense every week. And trade show season is upon us. Fellow marketeers will know what this means!

Tomorrow, I leave for FOSE, a big show we're doing in DC. I am the set up and tear down crew, booth captain plus I'll be working the booth too. What I've gotten done in the past 3 weeks for my day job is amazing (it's not trade shows! Not this year, thank god.) I am so tired and fried I'm surprised that my coworkers can't hear the crackle.

My plan today was to stop in at work, finish a couple things, print out my boarding passes and then get home to continue clearing out the closets as the painters come on Monday. To my dismay, nothing would print. (Yes, I cycled the power on the printers. Yes, I rebooted.) So I am at the local library, now with boarding pass in hand. Yay! And breathing in the smell of all these books. Kindle looks great and I will get one, soon. But for me, nothing beats the feeling of being in a room full of books.

My trip starts in DC, I'll get to see brother John & sis-in-law Amy over the weekend, then I go on to Harrisburg to meet with our US distributor. From there, I go to Rochester and spend a week. Meeting with a mover on the 18th, they'll estimate moving my goods and hopefully we'll schedule for the 23rd. Then back Home West.

I intend to keep the house in Rochester, now thinking of renting it out. I think this will get clear when I'm there.

And I am very much looking forward to my new place being painted, the new carpet in, and some furniture showing up so I can once again entertain.I'll post pics!