Interviewed with Sales Technologies, a Dun & Bradstreet Company, today. Sound like an interesting position. Just remains to see if I’m an interesting filler.
Parked in the underground garage of the Lenox Office Building. Turned on my lights as I left. Forgot I had them on as I parked in the sun at Harland. The Fox was completely dead when I left work late at 7 pm. Kathy and the kids came to the rescue with Mom’s jumper cables. We all had a very late dinner.
First chance I get, I’m going to buy one of those buzzers that lets you know you left your lights on.
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Yesterday, as Kathy worked and I lay on the couch absorbing all the Sunday morning news shows, Danny did his best to make a rabbit come out of his hat. He propped his magic book on my stomach as he attempted to follow the “directions” (3 instructionless drawings showing a boy pulling a rabbit out of a top hat.) He tried and tried to pull a rabbit out of his baseball cap. He would vigorously stir his magic wand (a Marriott ball point pen) inside the cap saying “Abra Cadabra!”
No rabbit.
After a bit, he went away and came back with two more magic wands. He tried waving three wands at once. “Abra Cadabra!”
No rabbit.
Then he went away for a while and came back with several pennies. He put those in his cap and waved his magic wands. “Abra Cadabra!”
I started scanning the book to see if there were instructions on pulling a rabbit out of a hat. There were none. The cover page of the book, showing a rabbit coming out of the hat, was misleading. Danny was learning a valuable lesson: You can’t judge a magic book by its cover.
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Later that night, I called Kathy Hildebrand to make my contribution to the tape she is sending over to my MBA classmate, Major Brian Zahn. He has 1000 men under him. Artillery. Right on the front line. His two biggest concerns, he told Connie, are 1: Making the right decisions when so many lives are at stake, and 2: How will being in a war change him.
I babbled some things I had been thinking about all day. Kathy said David Nelson was on right before me and that he babbled. So I don’t feel so bad. Hope it helps Brian in some small way.