Many friends from outside the area have inquired how we've fared through the recent disaster in Colorado. Here's an update: Our current place (rental) is fine, though the property we're building on was decimated pretty badly (it's about 2 miles from where we presently live, next to a lake on the St Vrain river). The river is normally 20-30 feet wide and 1-2 feet deep. I could have waded across it no problem a week ago. It was 200-500yds wide when we saw it a few days ago (no typo there). The shot below is our lake, but it's connected now to the river and the next lake over. The water continues for hundreds of yards to the right side of the frame. Utterly amazing. Here's the sign to our neighborhood. Irony is we just changed the street name from Dougla Drive to Waterside Ln. How appropriate. This guy tried to go around the road barriers. Bad idea. Fire department got their engine stuck trying to save him. He gets a Darwi
UPDATED: September 2020 with added tips from experience I routinely lead customer workshops as part of my profession. 100% remote work is changing things in a major way! Workshops are not designed as remote experiences; yet here we are. I led my first remote customer workshop this week! As expected, it was definitely a different experience but it worked pretty well. I learned some significant lessons along the way and thought they'd be a valuable share (beyond this forced-quarantine time). Delivering workshops remotely certainly isn’t the preferred method. But there's surely things we can do to make them as effective as possible. Tips: Energy. Start with uptempo. music, jokes, and a high-level overview of what you're going to accomplish and how. Have handouts that give people a strong mental model of where they are in the process. They'll tune out and get bored otherwise. PRO TIP: I love to use a concept called ELMO using an Elmo plush doll. ELMO s
I took my 8-year old on a date tonight and she chose for her activity--wait for it--Walmart Bingo. She found bingo cards online and after our dinner, we commenced the hunt. The items on the card were mostly outrageous and not likely to find (including "bearded woman"), though not outside the realm of possibility; the "someone buying beer and diapers" came pretty close. Here, however, were some delightful finds I did manage to pick up, even if not on the bingo card: Teenage girl in PJ's Dude with "Shh, this is my hangover shirt" t-shirt Dude with one eye Dude with a mohawk and a mouth full of chew Guy buying worms Guy with a full 1-1/2" gauge in his ear, plus more jewelry on his lips. He looked like livestock Broken bottles on the floor in the drink aisle Mormon missionaries. Maybe they broke the drinks! Luckily they were missing the facial jewelry. Phew. A girl playing (successfully) with 3 hoola hoops at the same time ^^^M
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