[Sportsandrec] Of 50+ Page Agendas, Poor Organization, and 70+ Flights of Stairs!

[Rania]

I like that. Thanks for sharing.
Rania,
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Everett Gavel" <e.gavel at sbcglobal.net>
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Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 7:20 AM
Subject: [Sportsandrec] Of 50+ Page Agendas, Poor Organization,and 70+ 
Flights of Stairs!


> Joe Wrote:
> "I love that. 'I am not afraid of dieing I am afraid of not living.'
> How powerful. I needed that. Thank you."
>
>
> Hello Joe, and All,
>
> Happy to share the inspiration, Joe.  Glad it helped.
>
> Hey, I don't think I met one of you at convention, and it didn't occur to 
> me
> until the long, boring drive home.  I also totally missed the rowing event 
> I
> wanted to participate in.  How did that go, by the way?  I knew I wasn't
> going to be able to make the division's business meeting, though I'd have
> liked to.  But I wanted to at least get into the rowing, and meet and
> compete, y'know?  But damn if I didn't screw up my schedule while going
> through the 50+ pages of what there was to do in one week.
>
> I made the mistake of originally copying various meetings each day with 
> only
> the days header at the beginning of each long list of that days events.
> Well, afterward I realized it'd be better to put the day in every listing,
> next to the time.  And somehow I screwed it up and mixed up some days,
> apparently.  Much of my weekend was full of showing up for meetings that
> weren't there, and missing ones I wanted to and should've attended.  Wrong
> Bat times, wrong Bat channels, I guess you could say.  Ah, now there's a 
> bit
> of dating myself, huh?
>
> Ah well, life goes on - despite screwing up in such a noticeable way. ;-)
>
> One happy note:  a few of us made the climb up the 70+ flights of stairs 
> in
> the main hotel.  More on this, possibly, later.  But for the record, 
> Lindsey
> from Maryland, Sarah from Chicago, and my tired old butt made it to the 
> top.
> And surprise surprise, my heart didn't explode.  Though after about the 
> 20th
> floor I was stopping for a minute or so on every other level.  So it took 
> me
> about a half hour I think.  Sarah was nice enough to stay back with me
> rather than leaving me in the dust as she could've easily done.  Now that 
> I
> think of it, she probably climbed more than 80 flights, because in the
> beginning she was running up and coming back down to me, then up again, 
> then
> back down.  Sheesh.
>
> All that matters (to me anyway) is that we made it.  Yeehah!  Why do it in
> the first place, you may ask?  Because it was there, of course.  And if 
> you
> don't like that answer, well then, my secondary response is, "Why the hell
> not?"  ;-)
>
> Here's 2 quotes that share the 'why,' for me, honestly:
>
>
> "Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they
> were the big things."
> ~ Robert Brault
>
> "You never know when you're making a memory."
> ~ Ricky Lee Jones
>
>
> Anyway, at this convention I was looking forward to meeting with some of 
> you
> MMA / boxing dudes for one.  Looking forward to meeting Christella for the
> first time, and LM again after so many years.  And hoping to meet others
> whose names come up now and again here.  Not sure of all who attended,
> actually, but I knew the ones I just mentioned, were going.  Whoever was
> there, sorry I missed you all.  maybe in Dallas, right?
>
> Right!
>
>
> Until Then, In 2010!
> Everett
> www.DreamingInTandem.blogspot.com
>
>
>
>
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