Personal Update - 7/27/2009 - "good job"

Yesterday was a good day, yet one I had been dreading at work. My boss is out of town, in Denver at our national corporate offce for the week. This meant that I had to lead the weekly conference call. UGH! I'm a doer not a leader, yet it is part of my job.

Rodney made it to the Denver office in time to dial in an listen to the call, but remained mostly in the background. About half way through the call a particularly touchy question came up. I did hear Rodney begin to answer, even as I spoke up. After I had my say I received and email he had sent from this blackberry "good job".

This topic we had not had a chance to discuss in detail together so I was speaking from my own personal view point as if it was our teams policy. Thankfully he agreed with what I said.

Two more conference calls this week, both tomorrow and Thursday. They look to be quite well attended with a lot of people I haven't had a lot of contact with. Your good thoughts and prayers will be appreciated.

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