Musings at Altitude

My 14 year old (who turns 15 on Monday) said I have to cease and desist using “it’s almost Friday” because that phrase is protected for her by copyright.  I chuckled at that, and I need to remind her that I did indeed attribute that phrase and this timing to her back on April 7th with my blog called Perspective.  So I’m pretty I’m covered in a court of law, or at least I better be covered in some form of family court.  If not, I’ll have to exercise my parental rights and tell her to “get real”!

The good news is that it really is almost Friday this time!  After spending 8 of the last 9 days in headache fueling, intensely focused, day-long discussions, tomorrow is only a half day (if that) and then I’m back to dreaming and driving business rather than tuning the engines of the business.

Don’t get me wrong…engine tuning is important…we need to go further than ever today on the fuel we have for the business engines.  But good grief…spending 1/26th of a year all at one time staring at the engine components has convinced me that I always, from this point forward, need someone very trusted and very experienced to stare at that engine for me.  Hopefully that person will be able to reach their hands down into that engine and tune it; but if not, they’ll know exactly what step to take next to get that tuner in there!  I know for sure that I’m not the one that should be looking under that hood and staring at that engine.  When I look under the hood (of a business or an actual car!), I can say one of two things – (1) “hey, cool looking engine”; or (2) “hey, looks like you need some windshield wiper fluid”.  I’m certainly not qualified to say anything else!  And even if I was, after staring at that engine for a while I’d have such a massive headache that anything I said would be absolutely useless to fixing any problems that engine may have.

So, it is almost Friday, and I’m greatly looking forward to getting back to racing the car rather than tuning the engine!