33 Days Home
I'm reporting from New York today, the first business trip I've felt I could safely take in a year.
John seems to have settled into that schedule that befits his age - rising after noon, leaving around dinner and returning in the middle of the night. His energy level seems low and his thoughts about getting on with life seem repressed. He has always been wary of new situations and life with someone else's blood certainly qualifies, I suppose.
Courtney's computer died this week. After an hour on hold with Dell, they shipped a new hard drive, which we have to install and then try to reload everything out of her dead hard drive. It used to be that father's only had to know how to fix bicycles.
The Job Fair at the World Congress Center Tuesday was quite an event. Debbie and I trained 50 or more lawyers from her firm and BellSouth last week on the law of starting life over after a disaster. The fair was "flooded" with 15,000 job seekers by noon, twice as many as expected for the whole day, and they had to shut the doors. The firm saw well over 1oo Katrina victims and gave a lot of helpful advice. One lawyer spent almost 2 hours helping a woman with concerns.
Several of the BellSouth lawyers that I trained and used to work with carried the materials and their experience down to Louisiana the next day to meet with company employees that had lost their homes. All of that is to say that a well placed good deed can multiply many times over.
I got a request yesterday to work on help for company victims of Hurricane Rita. I hope I have something to offer for them as well.
John seems to have settled into that schedule that befits his age - rising after noon, leaving around dinner and returning in the middle of the night. His energy level seems low and his thoughts about getting on with life seem repressed. He has always been wary of new situations and life with someone else's blood certainly qualifies, I suppose.
Courtney's computer died this week. After an hour on hold with Dell, they shipped a new hard drive, which we have to install and then try to reload everything out of her dead hard drive. It used to be that father's only had to know how to fix bicycles.
The Job Fair at the World Congress Center Tuesday was quite an event. Debbie and I trained 50 or more lawyers from her firm and BellSouth last week on the law of starting life over after a disaster. The fair was "flooded" with 15,000 job seekers by noon, twice as many as expected for the whole day, and they had to shut the doors. The firm saw well over 1oo Katrina victims and gave a lot of helpful advice. One lawyer spent almost 2 hours helping a woman with concerns.
Several of the BellSouth lawyers that I trained and used to work with carried the materials and their experience down to Louisiana the next day to meet with company employees that had lost their homes. All of that is to say that a well placed good deed can multiply many times over.
I got a request yesterday to work on help for company victims of Hurricane Rita. I hope I have something to offer for them as well.
