Category: Dear Son

It really helps to like the people you work with

Clermont Florida acreage
View from the gate, using a zoom lens.

 

Clermont Florida acreage
Looking back at the gate i had to get our of the car to open and then again to close.

 

Clermont Florida acreage
Driveway. No zoom.

 

High School students filming a project
High School students filming a project.

 

High School students filming a project
High School students filming a project, with a little parental help for this scene.

 

Horse barn
The temperature (giant, yellow, round thermometer on left) just below 90 at 3pm…Fall is in the air.

 

It really helps to like the people you work with. Otherwise, spending the night without a change of clothes and no toiletries would be challenging to bear.

They made it work.

And there were horses.

Note: The Saturday “all-day” school assignment wasn’t supposed to take a second day, so no provisions for spending the night were taken by the other two students.

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Saturdays are work days too

Home improvement
Home improvement crew arrived at 7am.

 

Home improvement
Stan is one of seven team members. Stan is an Electrician. We ran power from House to Pool Pump House and a new irrigation well.

 

Home improvement
About 100′ from house to Well.

 

Home improvement
Ran electric inside the pool pump house to install the Irrigation Control panel box.

 

Home improvement
Thanks to Irma last week, only a few inches below the surface and you hit water.

 

Home improvement
Perspective from inside pump house.

 

Home improvement
Perspective from Well to pump house.

 

Home improvement
Irrigation panel and future outside light controls.

 

Home improvement
Much easier when dry.

 

Home improvement
Regulars in the yard.

 

When i booked today’s flight to Ohio, i intentionally secured an 11:30am departure.

Why?

To allow for a bike ride this Sunday morning.

Enough time for however far i can go in two hours.

Next up, Walt Disney World.

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Be a noticer if you can spare the time

Hula guy
Love how this breaks the stereotype. Surprised i noticed it. It’s a Hula-guy, not a hula-girl.

 

Disney speakers
Referrals are gold.

 

Disney Speakers think differently
Here’s to the crazy ones…

 

Be a noticer if you can spare the time.

While i noticed the hula guy when i parked to pick up our Son after swim practice, i often don’t always notice the other two images that reside next to my desk.

But when i do notice those art pieces, i remember why i retired early from Disney.

PS. Similar, but not the point of this post, i noticed a lot of unhappy leaders at Disney. Many feel underpaid and underappreciated, secretly thinking they are worth much more than they get credit for. My advice? Leave. Start your own thing. See if you were right.

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Life would be easier if i didn’t write every morning (reprise)

Hurricane Irma
About 24 hours later, it’s history.

 

American Flag
From 100-mph gusts to nothing in 24 hours. The flag spent the night in our garage.

 

Life would be easier if i didn’t write every morning (reprise).

The closer i get to the 60th birthday, the more clearly i see the value in a single day.

i can only imagine what i will write if i ever have some weird comprehension of my last days.

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Just when you think you know it all

Hurricane Irma path
At 5PM, Irma’s moving West. That wasn’t supposed to happen.

 

Hurricane Irma path
At 5AM, Irma’s moving even farther West.

 

Orlando wellness keynote speakers
Still taking the prescribed pills Dr Weinberger ordered in 1999. This one is called exercise. The other, diet.

 

Hurricane statistics
Wow, never before in history.

 

Hurricane Irma path
Almost “showtime”, as we say at Disney.

 

Dog kissing a person
Raleigh is two and he is thanking me for letting him ride out Hurricane Irma.

 

Just when you think you know it all, you don’t. Not by a long shot.

We went from Hurricane Irma targeting the Keys, to Irma turning around and potentially missing the United States completely, to it moving west again, and right over our home.

The latest has the eye just West of us which is called the “dirty side” – the strongest and most destructive side.

That’s where we line up with the latest update.

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