I've been in Florida since Sunday. The flight out sucked. It was bumpy and I couldn't bring regular water on board. Ugh. I got here, looked out the balcony of my room at The Ritz Carlton (high on the hog for a conference) and saw the absolute perfect spot to practice in the high humidity of Florida. Damn, can't practice.

So, I decided that I'd take the opportunity to spend the entire week getting blasted.

I couldn't.

It got to the point that today I actually sat in the bar with one of my "bosses" and a peer starting at NOON... At midnight I STILL could not catch a buzz.

The Best Friend is cracked up because I have some sort of mental thing that, at the moment when I most want to get messed up in the head, I can't.

Happens everytime.

What IS that about?

The conference itself has been interesting and different. I feel like I actually didn't do anything at this conference. I helped a lot of other people sell a lot of their own ideas and produts. I gave two sessions... I got a bunch of stuff for my kids but I can't really remember doing any educational injection of my own. My sessions seemed to go well.

Highlights include:

The CIO of large law firm who walked up to me later in front of our CIO and IT Director and said "I'll double your salary if you move to the East Coast."

The idea of that is so ludicrus, I don't even know the name of the firm.

Mid-conference I got a voice mail from an ISV about a job with them.

Large Law Firm # 2 from "back in the original negotiation"'s CsomethingO asked me why not... why not just work at home.

A vendor offered me part-time work at my full-time salary.

Another vendor told me "tell me what you want... as long as it isn't President, it's yours."

That's just some of the personal acclaim and ego injecting comments I've received over the past few days. It's pretty cool but often makes me wonder why I do anything for a living. I think, after 6 days, I'm just tired of business all day every day.

In really good reporting, CIODude let me crash on his big vendor party as his date and I got to see Cirque Du Soleil in Orlando. It rocked. He's such a good customer that we had literally 3rd row seats front and center.. I could see the bandhas on the gymnasts.

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Tonight I had someone I know really well surprise me.

Tonight I had someone trick me mentally in a way I haven't been tricked in a really long time.

Tonight I had someone show me my ego.

Tonight I had someone show me my weaknesses.

Tonight I had someone argue my spiritual beliefs with me.

Tonight I argued how we are all one.... no matter how beliefs... no matter our delusions... no matter our illusions.

None were one person in and of the same...

Tonight I had someone offer me the one thing... that one thing... that I always say "will find me anywhere."

Genki Ka my friends.