Half-way to the curb
I think either my brain CPU got infected with a virus or I’m running out of RAM. I had never done this before, but two weeks in a row now I have “taken the garbage out” by taking the garbage bags to the garbage bag bins but failing to take …
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Close call on podium blush
Dude, right before giving a keynote today, I almost walked into the women’s bathroom. My hand was on the door ready to push it. I would have done so, had I not heard two women talking right inside (probably conference attendees).
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Redeemed through the storm
After Monday’s miracle keynote debacle, today I redeemed myself After realizing there would be a snow storm overnight, yesterday I drove to a hotel near the airport so I could take my 8am flight to Miami so that I could deliver on my promise to speak at a conference. At …
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Miracle keynote
Wow, what absentmindedness today! One of those days. I dropped off Fran & Rich at the airport and then clicked on my phone calendar appointment for my GPS o take me to the address where I was giving a keynote that afternoon. It surprised me that it was in Dallas, …
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Underwater hearing
I was at the pool locker room getting ready to go for a swim when an older man came back into the locker room, wet, with his hearing aids in his hands, and told me he mistakenly went in the pool with the hearing aids. I asked him whether it …
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That feeling of missing something…
You know that feeling when you’re on your way to the airport and have a sense that you may have forgotten something at home? I have that same feeling right now, but while waiting for my return flight to go back home. I have the sense that I haven’t realized …
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Privacy inside out
My dad was very kindly installing lots of door knobs throughout our house (bedrooms, closets, bathrooms…). He had done lots of doors and was in the final stretch when he was installing the privacy lever in my office door. After he had been working on it for about 10 minutes, …
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Odd bathroom
I’d have thought it’d be hard to top the Secret Service close-call affair the same day, but I did. When at Reagan National Airport, about to board my flight back home, I went to the bathroom. I rushed into the bathroom. I walked past the stalls looking for the urinals, …
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Secret Service close-call
Yesterday, oddly, I was at the White House for a convening on educational games. Of course, it was very cool to be there. We were a group of about 40 people in a conference room. The previous night, dinner had started at 9pm, so I was dazed and confused… At …
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Locker room sandwiches
Before going to work out at the pool, I made two sandwiches and took them with me so I would eat them in the car on the way back from the pool. I meant to leave them in the car, but when I got to the locker room, I realized …
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