I keep thinking "What about Bob?" when I come in here.
"Ba-bee-steps. It works!" That movie is one of my family's favorites.
Today my one thing was to volunteer to help out with something at church. I spent two hours there tonight helping dissect some survey results. I'm not really enthused with how it all went but at least I got to meet some new people.
Tomorrow my one thing is lunch with a Class of 2009 MBA student from my alma mater. Talk about a bad time to be graduating. And I thought I had it rough when I finished my MBA in 2000, right after the tech bubble popped.
p.s. -- In 60 hours I'll be in California. Hot diggity shalondre brown.
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You're daughter's not a high school student. I'm glad she's so willing to talk with me about stuff, serious, funny, weird, and otherwise.
No sooner did I type this than I had a similar type conversation with my son. He's 8 so it was all that I could do to keep from laughing. It's good that we can talk about these things but man it's funny. He said something about a hairy pickle at dinner which was something that one of his friends had said. It was innocent enough so in my best straight man impression I calmly asked him what a hairy pickle was. His eyes got big as saucers then he replied in hushed tones with a diminutive hand wave that he didn't want to talk about it in front of the girls, meaning his mom and sister.
Later that evening we were playing catch in the backyard. I bring it up to him again. This time as nonchalantly as two guys talking about the weather he says, "you know dad when you're a little kid it's just a pickle. When you grow up it's a hairy pickle." I nodded, said OK and the ball continued to slap into the leather. Father son bonding at it's finest.
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No sooner did I type this than I had a similar type conversation with my son. He's 8 so it was all that I could do to keep from laughing. It's good that we can talk about these things but man it's funny. He said something about a hairy pickle at dinner which was something that one of his friends had said. It was innocent enough so in my best straight man impression I calmly asked him what a hairy pickle was. His eyes got big as saucers then he replied in hushed tones with a diminutive hand wave that he didn't want to talk about it in front of the girls, meaning his mom and sister.
Later that evening we were playing catch in the backyard. I bring it up to him again. This time as nonchalantly as two guys talking about the weather he says, "you know dad when you're a little kid it's just a pickle. When you grow up it's a hairy pickle." I nodded, said OK and the ball continued to slap into the leather. Father son bonding at it's finest.
ROTFLMAO!! With kids, we spend so much money making memories when in reality it is these moments that last a lifetime.
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Isn't more like a hairy garden that has a pickle in it? If the pickle itself is actually hairy then there must be some kind of botanical cross-mojination happening and it should get looked at.
Anyway...
My lunch with the MBA student was very positive. While my company isn't hiring any full-time positions in the near future, we still had a good visit. Some key takeaways:
-- She's an international student (from India) and needs to have a full-time position by November, or else she has to go back home. Uncle Sam's rules, and it's causing her to feel quite a bit of pressure since the job market is tough.
-- I reassured her with my own story, graduating when the tech bubble popped in 2000, and I was the youngest in the class with no meaningful experience. And I still found a job.
-- I encouraged her that she's doing all the right stuff, and that there's no such thing as a wasted phone call, email or lunch with an alumnus or business contact. You just never know which one might be the one to lead to a job.
-- We agreed that there are times when you search for your true passion, and how to use your unique gifts to make a difference in the world. And there's are times to just get a Jay-Oh-Bee. Right now she's more in the latter.
-- We saw eye-to-eye on some of the misleading aspects of business school: the focus on money/prestige/position, the zero-sum game of job interviews against fellow classmates, work/life balance, etc...
-- She begged me to come back to campus and take part in more of the formal mentoring programs. She mentioned that most of the alumni who come back are bigwigs looking to show off, and there are very few "complete people" talking about the things we did at lunch today. I'm going to do it.
-- I helped her with some basic etiquette stuff (who pays for lunch, how many times to protest politely and when to say thank you, etc...) that she hadn't picked up yet in her 18 months in the US. I know how she feels, as the MBA program is so intense that often you don't have time for things like lunches and informal discussions, which ironically is usually where the real business happens.
Then I worked out:
Prehab (knee is feeling excellent these days)
DB snatches (70lb)
Incline DB press (50 lb)
Bent-over DB row (60 lb.)
Calf raises (80 lb. DB each hand)
Farmer's walks (80 lb. DB each hand)
RPoD
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I'm not quite that narcisisstic. I freely admit that I have no tonsils, no wisdom teeth, no mechanical skill, and no ability to find things in kitchen cabinets.
Most of those things probably won't change no matter how hard I try. But I should try anyway. Imma regrow some tonsils.
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1. Marketing department pays
2. Vendor pays
3. Boss pays
4. Peers split the bill
5. Colleagues not in same department or company is tricky - usually whoever asked for the lunch/benefits from the lunch/is higher status would win the "let me pay" push-pull, unless a split is more equitable based on relative status/benefit from the lunch.
At least them's my rule o' thumbs. What about you?
1. Marketing department pays
2. Vendor pays
3. Boss pays
4. Peers split the bill
5. Colleagues not in same department or company is tricky - usually whoever asked for the lunch/benefits from the lunch/is higher status would win the "let me pay" push-pull, unless a split is more equitable based on relative status/benefit from the lunch.
At least them's my rule o' thumbs. What about you?
Those work for me. I could write those down and give it to my new employees.
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For biz functions at Intel the most senior person in the group always pays. That has always been a rule at the company. It is sort of cool and a good rule to follow outside of the company too. Keeps things on the up and up.
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Heck no. I paid since it was almost an interview-type setting. She just freaked out too much about it so we talked about what is an appropriate amount of freak.
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C'mon, I need my Red fix.
Been in CA with RedWifey on our 10-yr. anniversary trip. We had a great time and also got to connect with some of our peeps. Ran sprints with Reggie Bush, gave a hitting lesson at Tony Gwynn's camp, then went to a little get-together with the cheerleading squad from the San Diego Chargers. Oh, and Roland drove down to San Diego to meet us as well, and for some reason that's the only visit I have photos of. You can just take my word on the other stuff.
Here are some pics of the weekend.
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Pictures of warm weather and beaches I can handle ... but chocolate? Now I'm jealous. Please tell me it was all horrible stuff inside and soured you on chocolate for life.
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Happy Anniversary! (late...) Those pictures are really cool! I always love pics of you guys, you look so happy! (Of course, the one of you and Roland I thought you were holding hands...)
Pictures of warm weather and beaches I can handle ... but chocolate? Now I'm jealous. Please tell me it was all horrible stuff inside and soured you on chocolate for life.
I won't lie. I had chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream with dark chocolate hot fudge. Strangely I was full after eating at Fred's Mexican restaurant, so I ended up taking the ice cream back to the hotel and ate it there later.
Sure, it was horrible. Whatever you need to hear.
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Happy Anniversary! (late...) Those pictures are really cool! I always love pics of you guys, you look so happy! (Of course, the one of you and Roland I thought you were holding hands...)
Well, he did try to kiss me at the top of the hill we hiked. I figured it was a confused and desperate act brought on by thin air and dehydration.
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Fun stuff. It's amazing the supra-healthy foods you can find at Fred's Mexican and a chocolate shop.
We ate grilled chicken salad and water, then at the shop, we had 99% dark chocolate, no sugar added ice cream. Mmmmmm...
My salad was delicious. It had a dressing of chicken, queso, rice, tortillas and some kinda chipotle mix. Minus the lettuce.
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1. Jamie deserves a medal. 10 years of tolerance. LOL! Okay, congrats to both of you. And good on you for getting away sans children.
2. I am pretty sure that Roland has eyes for you from the pic.... but more wondering where your left hand is....
3. I am visiting Roland too. In KS in April!
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I just presented a ton of stuff to our executive team and rocked it.
That was from about a week ago. Cool news to share on that topic:
1) The CEO came into my office yesterday and let me know that he has hired a company President. It's the first time we've filled that role, and it's a guy I've met and respect. The CEO will probably take less of a day-to-day role from now on. Formal announcement should be in the next week.
2) I also found out that the new Prez was secretly listening in on the conference call mentioned in the quote above. A meeting of all Directors and C-level people, and then little 'ole me who ran the show.
No idea what all this means yet. But it's cool that when I really put some extra work into a project and brought my "A" game, it ends up somebody was watching.
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