When I was working at Simon & Schuster administering their sales automation projects, I attended the annual user group conference held by our sales automation vendor. I’d attended a couple of these week-long conferences before, but this was the first year I’d gone by myself (from S&S.) It was also the first time I’d encountered … Continue reading “Beer in a Bar”
Stop Trying to Help Me
I don’t like the way cars are being designed to help me with stuff. I’m not talking about good things like crumple zones and mirrors. I mean stuff that seems to be helping you, but actually teaches you bad habits. I’ll give you some examples. I got into the habit of wearing seat belts before … Continue reading “Stop Trying to Help Me”
My Bachelor Party
So we were one of those couples with the giant wedding party – I had two college friends Dave and Tony, my brother in law Tom, Mary’s brother Michael, “our” brother in law Alfred (a story for another time), and my brother Joe as best man. They all took me out for dinner for my … Continue reading “My Bachelor Party”
Belly Dancing
As I’ve mentioned, this is the time of year in my textbook publishing days when we’d be prepping for our National Sales Meeting. I’ve probably been to at least a couple dozen of these, scattered throughout the country, and got to hang with tons of very interesting people. My favorite part of NSMs past is … Continue reading “Belly Dancing”
Have a Heart
So after Mary and I had been married for a couple of years and she was pregnant with Diane, my friend Dave talked us into trying to scalp tickets to a Heart concert at the Brendan Byrne arena in NJ. Now Dave and I had gone to quite a few shows before that, and scalped … Continue reading “Have a Heart”