Thursday, March 17, 2005
On the road
Blogging tonight from the glamorous surroundings of my room at the Premier Travel Inn in beautiful downtown Bracknell. My aging laptop - still running - W95 has embraced the wireless age, so here I am, burning money at the rate of £5 for two hours to update myself on Ecademy and to catch up with the world. I've actually spent some time downloading Mind Manager X5 only for it to tell me (during installation AFTER a lengthy download) that my op system isn't supported. Might have told me BEFORE I downloaded? Would have saved some of my £5, too.
Here in the UK, we live with weather that changes minute by minute. Yesterday I drove from Falmouth to Kettering (which took from 10am - 6pm) in what could best be described at times as zero visibility. The M4 between Bristol and Swindon was especially bad, not helped by the inevitable idiot who decided that front ending the central barrier would be fun. Today, I drove from Kettering to Andover in bright sunlight and was walking around in Andover in shirtsleeves. Temperatures in the region of 19 - 20c in March are rare but may stick around a few more days.
It's been a while since I was a regular road warrior. The feeling soon comes back. At times today, I was actually ENJOYING driving on the A34. Perhaps I need to get my head checked!
Tomorrow I'm in a seminar on seminar selling by Philip Calvert whose Ecademy training sessions, usually given for free and on the end of a long drive, are always good value. A full day, not free but still reasonably priced, should be a real shot in the arm for my speaking aspirations (I nearly wrote pretensions). I'll report back on that from this same room tomorrow.
Saturday is now also a networking day. A major networking event, organised by Larry Osei Kwaku, takes place in Central London. He has over 200 coming for a saturday full of speakers and food. Must be doing something right!
Here in the UK, we live with weather that changes minute by minute. Yesterday I drove from Falmouth to Kettering (which took from 10am - 6pm) in what could best be described at times as zero visibility. The M4 between Bristol and Swindon was especially bad, not helped by the inevitable idiot who decided that front ending the central barrier would be fun. Today, I drove from Kettering to Andover in bright sunlight and was walking around in Andover in shirtsleeves. Temperatures in the region of 19 - 20c in March are rare but may stick around a few more days.
It's been a while since I was a regular road warrior. The feeling soon comes back. At times today, I was actually ENJOYING driving on the A34. Perhaps I need to get my head checked!
Tomorrow I'm in a seminar on seminar selling by Philip Calvert whose Ecademy training sessions, usually given for free and on the end of a long drive, are always good value. A full day, not free but still reasonably priced, should be a real shot in the arm for my speaking aspirations (I nearly wrote pretensions). I'll report back on that from this same room tomorrow.
Saturday is now also a networking day. A major networking event, organised by Larry Osei Kwaku, takes place in Central London. He has over 200 coming for a saturday full of speakers and food. Must be doing something right!
