Hell(o)

Just a quick post today to say hello. From hell. I'm caught in a week that I've known for some time was going to be the week from hell, so I've not got a lot (any) time to blog, but I thought I'd take a quick minute to dust the cobwebs off of So Anyways.

This week, I'm hosting a group of co-workers from around the world for a conference here at the mothership/company headquarters. In some ways, it's fun to do this because most of the people attending are people I've known for 10 years or more, and whom I've come to respect and like as friends, despite the fact that we live in opposite corners of the globe and I only see them on rare occasions like this one.

The preparations for the big group gathering are challenging and tiring, especially given that when my boss asked me to do this, he did so in practically the same breath in which he was handing me an increased day-to-day workload. So, I've been a bit frazzled and will be glad when the week is over!

Even with the challenges, I always think to myself how I should savor the fact that I work in such a global business. It's really pretty cool to see and work with people from Europe and Asia and other parts of the world. Even if we don't spend a lot of time talking about how America's leading the global "war on Terra" and how we're bringing Democracy and Freedom to them all, it's a good chance to gage their feelings anyway.

For the past couple of years, their reactions have been not quite as supportive as our president would have us believe. I'm thinking of opening the meeting tomorrow with a statement that "I didn't vote for him, so don't blame me!," but I guess that wouldn't be appropriate.

Anyway, now that the cobwebs are dusted off, time to return to the preparations for Todd's Global Summit 2005. Friday the 13th can't get here soon enough!