What a week. Between last Sunday to this Sunday I probably put in about 80-100 hours of work this week. Right now I?m on a flight between Cincinnati and Salt Lake City on the way home from spending the weekend at a conference in Lake Placid with Greg and Julia. All great stuff. We?ve got a ton of credit unions who are budgeting for 2006, so right now is probably the busiest time of the year making sure we get proposals in for planning.
When we first got out to New York, we met up with a gentlemen from the New York State Department of Education, about an initiative in New York we?re working on to get 20,000+ copies of brass out to high school students. We put together some plans on how we are going to go about doing that, and then how we?ll get the sponsors. I have a feeling in my gut that tells me this feels right and could be very huge. I don?t know how else to describe it.
After meeting with him we headed out to Lake Placid. On the way out we saw a massive structure in the middle of the forest which we discovered was where the 1980 Olympic ski jumping event was held. I?ve included a picture below. We went to this site, and found an Olympic training facility with ski/snowboard jumps that launched into pools. Some of these skiers would go off the jumps and get as high as 30 or 40 feet in the air before landing in the pool. See a picture below.
We proceeded to check into our hotel, which was very nice and had an amazing view overlooking the lake. On two of the days I decided to go for a run around the lake and got a couple of good pictures out of it. After speaking at the conference we had a very favorable response about our initiative with the teachers, and I believe that within a couple months we may have the program in full swing after discussions for over a year. Very exciting!
The last thing, and probably the coolest about Lake Placid is the history and culture of the town. Lake Placid was where the U.S. Olympic hockey team beat the Russians back in 1980, which was the base of the movie Miracle with Kurt Russell. When you come into the town, it is a one lane highway, and when the Olympics were hosted, there were hundreds of thousands of people in attendance. Every store, hotel, room and closet were packed to the brim, in this tiny, remote, middle of nowhere town where the entire world watched as this hockey game went on. We listened to people from the town talk about all of the partying and celebrating that took place after the win. The intensity of an event like that, with that many people in a town that small, must have been an absolutely amazing experience. It gives me chills just thinking about it. I would highly recommend that if anyone ever has the chance to visit Lake Placid that they do so because it is an experience that you won't shortly forget.
Skier Gets Huge Air
Huge Ski Jumps
Lake Placid
Lake Placid
Bryan,
Kudos for two things.
First: for opening the site up for comments.
Second: for the way you handled the comment about "my generation's terrible work ethic."
Doubtful that person saw "The Buzz On The Street" - if you know who made the comment, maybe you should send the article her way.
What would she say about Tina's advice? "You have to persevere. I built a career for eight years; I started when I was 16. I?m 24, and just starting to see the fruits of that labor. It?s not something you can do overnight; there is no over-night success. It?s something that you have to love, be passionate about, and believe in."
You know, Tina's not the only one in the under-30 crowd who fits the highly driven, capable, successful, look-out-or-your-job's-in-jeopardy profile. And the way you handled that situation showed the person who made the comment just some of the faces in that room with a work ethic that gets them prepared to take her job.
We were supposed to be serious in that pic? Me and Jon are smiling like idiots. And yes, Steve, I thought the exact same thing about Kenny. Why was he in that pic? Lil guy even gave Bryan his gun to try and be one of the crew. Ha, funny Kenny.
Lake Placid is indeed a very cool place. I had the pleasure of competing in the 1980 Arena with my skating partner, Julie, at the 2000 and 2004 U.S. Adult Figure Skating Championships.
Just to clarify, by "you" I mean other credit union's reading Bryan's blog!
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