For those of you who may not have noticed, we switched our blogging system over to Blogger.com, which is pretty sweet. Before I'd have to write the blog, send it to Greg, and then have him post it. Now with blogger it will be much easier, so my goal is to increase the frequency I'll be posting, and you can now post comments on the blog!

To recap the past couple week:

July 31st-August 2nd
Flew out to Madison, WI to speak at a 2-day conference. It went pretty well and had good feedback, but there is always a few who don't get it. At the end of the conference one person asked me a question, and made a comment about "my generation's terrible work ethic" to which everyone in the audience under 30 was highly offended. I then asked everyone who was under 30 who disagreed with her comment, and every single person raised their hand. What I would have preferred to have said was, "Funny how we have terrible work ethics when you're listening to me speak instead of the other way around." Ah the things we think but do not say! On the way back I ran into someone in Minneapolis airport who had belonged to the investment club I started a while back. Random.

August 4th August 9th
Went to a family reunion in San Diego. My mom has 10 other brothers and sisters, and everyone was there, so you can imagine it was one big group. I included a picture below from the San Diego docks, and another from my family reunion of my Grandparents, and just the grandkids (I have a lot of cousins). I also did some wakeboarding and sun burning while I was down there. Then we headed up to my Grandparents house (on my Dad's side) to help them pack up, since they're moving up to Oregon three blocks from us.

August 9th-12th
Spoke at a conference out in Missouri. The problem was that when I was originally told about the conference I was told I flew into St. Louis. Turns out after landing in St. Louis there was a 3 hour drive through the middle of nowhere to the Lake of the Ozarks. Moral of the story, find out the final destination first, not just the airport. On the way back, afraid I'd miss my flight, I got pulled over and was given a speeding ticket. Luckily the officer subtracted one mile from how fast I was going, otherwise I'd have to fly back to Missouri to pay my speeding ticket in court. That would have made my day. Then I got to the airport and had a middle seat on the plane. On the positive side, I did include a picture of me on a dam at the lakes that is pretty cool. I'm really stretching for something positive, I know.

Think you've got a worse travel story that can top mine? Post it here and let me know (this one really wasn?t that bad compared to some others, so it shouldn't be hard).

Dam

Family Reunion in San Diego

San Diego Docks