Run Tom, Run

ARE THEY BACK???



This was one of my favorite bands in college and it looks like they are getting back together.

A Lesson In Corporate Lingo....

A list of these got going on Kathryn's blog a couple weeks ago, but I thought I would add a few here for your reading enjoyment. Cheers!
1) WIIFM (What's In It For Me) Pronounced: wiffem "what's the WIIFM on that?"
2) Out Of The Loop
3) Offline - "Let's take that one offline"
4) Deliverable
5) Focus
6) A win/win situation
7) Think outside the box
8) Incentivize
9) Action Item
10) Leverage
11) Reco (recommendation) Can I get a reco on that?
12) POC (Point of Contact) "Who's the POC for this project?"
13) Scope Creep
14) BHAG - Big Hairy Audacious Goal "Our BHAG is X% of growth"
15) Take it to the next level
16) Drill Down - "Can we drill down on the root cause of this?"
17) Value Add
18) Gap Analysis
19) Empower
20) Spot on

Why Am I Awake???

Its currently 11:30 and I'm still up despite the fact that I need to leave the house at 6am tomorrow to be in Austin in time for my 8am meeting. That basically means I need to be up by about 5:30 at the absolute latest (still need to pack a bag - 2 days of meetings). I would go to sleep right now, but I just got done running 7 miles, so I'm kind of awake right now. I got to the office at 8 this morning, worked through lunch, and then didn't leave until sometime after 9pm. No bueno. I think I walked into the house at like 9:30ish? I'm ready for the weekend already. The bad part is that several of my friends had today off!! Why doesn't my company celebrate President's Day??? I've got 2 days of meetings tomorrow, drive up in the morning and back on Wed. Then I'll spend Thursday trying to catch up on all the work that I missed while in meetings on Tues & Wed. Ah - good times! Oh well. It will be a well earned weekend. The bad part is I'm having to do a 2 week crash course on my bearathon training because I basically quit running for the past 10 days. I think I only got 2-3 runs in and no long run. So, 7 miles everyday this week and 13 on Sat. Then 7 more Mon/Tues/Wed next week with another 5 on Thursday, then the race that Sat. Hopefully I can at least come close to my time goal. We'll see.

Sleep - its overrated. Cheers

4 Days, 12 hours, 45 mins, 40 secs...

That's tell the beautiful words are spoken..... Pitchers and Catchers Report!!!! (This is according to the Cardinals website at the time I was typing it). I'm quite excited and will be attending Cards spring training with the fam once again this year in about 4 weeks.



This weekend however was the opening of Baylor Baseball's 2004 season. Friday nights game was snowed out. You heard me correctly, snowed out in Waco, TX!! Craziness! Sat they played, but it was one of the coldest baseball games I've ever been to and we dropped it 8-7. I'm not putting much stock in it though considering the weather. Sunday's double-header however was a different story. The Bears picked up the first game 5-4 with Zane picking up the save. The second game was the best part of the weekend. Our new LH Freshman pitched a no-no into the seventh. One runner got to first on error, but Smith pulled him in favor of Zane to close it out (it was only being played to the 7th due to time constraints). Zane picked up his 2nd save of the day and we got an exciting look at what looks to be fantastic addition to the starting rotation. Looks like a great season and I couldn't be more excited about our seats!!! WOW!!!

Blogging might be sparse this week due to an insane workload and some business travel. I'll try and catch some tomorrow though.

Cheers