Musings at Altitude

Avs win!  AVS win!!  AVS WIN!!!  My 13 year old daughter is on top of the world today as her Colorado Avalanche won game 6 last night, winning the series and moving on to the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.  I just smile as I see her joy, because now her thoughts immediately […]

I’m rarely speechless…but I am right now.  I woke up this morning with my wife saying “get over here and look at your grandbaby”.  She pulled up a web site and in front of us were six beautiful pictures of the new life that will soon make her grand entrance into this world.  She’s definitely […]

My 13 year old daughter is an avid hockey fan – and this is her time – the hockey playoffs.  That’s all she talks about.  Annoyingly so.  Today is Game 6 of the best of 7 series between the Colorado Avalanche and the Minnesota Wild.  The Avalanche lead the series 3-2 after an incredible performance […]

I spent most of today in San Diego – one of my favorite places to visit in the United States.  I can not remember a time when I visited here when the weather wasn’t spectacular, and it didn’t disappoint me today either.  But my story starts before I drove down to San Diego, when I […]

I get great contentment from writing, probably because it purges my mind while I flesh out things I’m thinking about.  But one thing I’ve always wanted to do but just haven’t seemed creative enough to make meaningful is to write poetry.  So I’ve decided to work on it – fits well with my current mid […]

Back in March of 1997, Denise and I got our first home computer and our first email accounts on AOL.  By April and May, we were instant messaging each other from my remote work sites as we stayed in touch with each other during my many travels.  By the summer of 1999, I was instant […]

I’ve been intrigued by leadership since I was a teenager.  Back then I was obsessed with military history books like “A Bridge too Far” and “The Longest Day”.  In those books, I was inspired by military leaders, and I was completely obsessed with the heroes whose stories came out so vividly.  The intrigue of my […]

I was in the Wal-Mart parking lot earlier today after picking up a couple of things, and as I was sitting in my car checking my blackberry, a lady in a pickup truck with her son in the front seat with her pulled into the space in front of me.  I looked up and watched […]

I was just watching the NASCAR race in the hotel bar and I couldn’t help but think about how much the strategy at the end of the race mirrors business – in fact it is business.  Jimmy Johnson won this Race in his Lowe’s #48 car because his team’s strategy out-witted and out-lasted the other […]

Every now and then I spend way too much time thinking about things that really should cause no thinking at all – unfortunately, today is one of those days.  Here are some of the things I’m wondering about today: (1)     Why do people upgrade on a redeye flight when they sleep the entire way?  I […]