Musings at Altitude

This is a very special day for me…a day that has never happened before and a day that may very well never happen again…here’s what happened:   I got my car almost 8 years ago in the first model year of its existence.  My business partner asked me if we should both get company cars, […]

When my daughter read that last posting she came clean with one of my old Sports Illustrated magazines:   I now know that when she’s done scouring the pages for hockey news (that’s all she looks for), she uses the magazines to test nail polish and then to paint her nails. I’m certainly glad that […]

Recently, after returning from several weeks worth of travel, I was looking through my several weeks old stack of mail, and I noticed that my Sports Illustrateds (should have had several weeks worth) weren’t in the pile.  I still had my Inc magazines, my Wired magazines, and my Forbes magazines, but not my Sports Illustrateds. […]

I’m enjoying the milestones that are occurring right now (or fixing to occur).  Here are some that have been most exciting and creating the most anxiety today: — First grandchild.  Our oldest is two weeks out from delivery and looking like she’s going to bust today!  It’s been incredible watching the buying start immediately after […]

I’ve decided to document my 10 most inevitable and irrefutable (sort of like Murphy) laws of business: (1) When you are waiting on that call announcing a big deal or waiting for that one chance to talk to a key person you’ve been courting for months, that call will come in during those very few […]

I mentioned in an earlier posting that my hopes for one of my children to go to the Air Force Academy were dashed when my daughter said “just shoot me now” when I suggested she focus on making it to the Academy.  I’ve somewhat recovered from that major setback in the last few days, and […]

I was sitting in my office at home today with the music cranked up loud and my singing carrying well into the house (we had guests too, but what the heck, I rarely get to belt it out here at home and any of our guests might as well be family anyway).  My son wandered […]

My last post was pretty serious…moving into that grandfatherly phase and out of the fatherly chaos has affected me in ways that I didn’t quite expect (even though I’m only a tweaner right now).  But if I have to have an empty nest soon, it sure will be cool to share this incredibly large house with my […]

My wife and I have been married over 25 years now and we’re going through family changes right now.  We’re moving from being just parents to soon being grandparents (3 weeks away if all goes as scheduled).  We currently have 2 of our 3 kids living at home, but our 20 year old son has […]

On the final evening of any multi-day trip, I sit down and recap and figure out if progress was made or not.  On a business development trip, it’s very easy to determine if progress was made and relationships were advanced.  It’s a lot more difficult when working on staff issues or trying to move forward […]