Oh, MAN, today was a long one! I woke up earlier than normal, though not by much, because I needed to do some last-minute preparation for a visit by two leaders of a new client association, a statewide professional society. I had to do some work for other clients before they arrived, so I was going at it at 120% from the moment I walked into my office. Once they got there, we reviewed some questions they had about the management contract I had presented to them, got those resolved, and immediately went into discussions of what needs to be done when...their annual conference is taking place in Austin in just about three weeks and my staff and I will have to go at hot and heavy to meet some deadlines. But we can't start yet, as I have another client association meeting in The Woodlands, starting on Wednesday. And there's plenty yet to do for that meeting.
Anyway, we reviewed information about the association for about three and a half hours, reviewed files on diskettes they brought, and talked about how to implement the transition. Then, lunch at my favorite little Mexican restaurant near the office...a hole in the wall...cheap and good. Then, they left. And I switched gears to focus on some other association clients, do more clean-up, create a web page for the new client (promoting its exhibitors), and do all sorts of other stuff. The day sped by.
Before I knew it, it was almost 6:00 pm, time for yet another association's board to meet in our building conference room. I've been sending messages to the president, telling him that the 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm monthly meetings have been starting late, running long, and generally pissing me off. He promised to have the meetings start on time and end on time...and to cut the idle chatter. They rotate who leads their meetings, but the message found its way to the guy doing tonight's meeting...he started the meeting on time, made a point of saying it would end on time, and he actually ended it 15 minutes early. It was early enough that I was able to rush home after the meeting and miss only a minute or two of 24, my favorite television program (the only one I watch with any degree of regularity). Tonight, we learned that the bumbling, do-nothing president who took office only after the assassination of his predecessor, the first Black president, was involved in his predecessor's assassination. It's an incredibly fast-moving program, so utterly implausible, but so very entertaining!
Anyway, after all that, I'm beat. I probably will give blogging a rest for the next few days, but it may be a habit I can't easily break.
When I leave my client meeting next Saturday afternoon, I'll head to Falba, Texas for a visit with one of my brothers. It's on the way home and I don't want to try to make it all the way back to Dallas after the meeting's over. But I'll have to leave early the next day to get back to Dallas in time to meet with a guy about a commercial kitchen concept...renting commercial kitchen space to budding chefs, caterers, and others who want or need lots of kitchen space, excellent commercial equipment, and a place to show off their talents. It may go nowhere...it may create a new business direction for me. Probably the former.
OK, I'm tired. Off to vegetate in front of the television and allow myself to be spoon-fed news that suits the political sensibilities of stations' management.
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