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Tuesday, March 14, 2006

What's the best thing that happened to you today?

One of the NACE marketing guys, Treavor, was writing in his NACE blog, and he asked me "what's the best thing that happened to you today?" And I struggled to think of what it was. I could have easily listed the top 20 worst things that had happened to me today off of the top of my head, like spilling ketchup on my pants at lunch, getting bitched at in a meeting, calling someone by the wrong name, lots of little things that are mostly embarrassing, not bad in the sense of biblical proportions. But it is so wrong that I can't as easily come up with good things that happened. I'm not a whiner, when he asked, I thought "well, nothing really bad or good happened to me today". But I am sort of a pessimist, I feel like if you expect the worst, then you’ll never be disappointed, and you might be pleasantly surprised. But here are some of the good things that happened to me today:

1) Being in San Diego, a beautiful town
2) Nice weather, 50's in the day and a little cooler at night. It's a nice change from the 90's in Houston.
3) Having all my work for my committees done a week ahead of time
4) Receiving an award tomorrow
5) Getting special treatment
6) Buying some folks lunch for no real reason
7) Seeing my friends at conference
8) The most comfortable bed I have ever slept on
9) Getting to sleep in because I didn't have any meetings first thing this morning
10) Being named chair of a committee I am working on by a bunch of folks that I really respect
11) Having a great sushi dinner
12) Paid for by the company
13) Finishing a really good book
14) Starting on a technical paper due in a week and realizing I would have plenty of material to complete it
15) Not having to shave this morning (I'm alternating days, now)
16) Free high-speed wireless internet access at the convention center
17) Being mentioned by name in a presention of a very technical paper
18) Not feeling compelled to blog every day
19) Sticking to my Lentan sacrifice
20) Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, health, wealth and prosperity, total consciousness, intact faculties, true friends, contentment, professional satisfaction, hobbies like this blog, etc. etc. etc.

So, what's the best thing that happened to you today?

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