2024 – Page 13 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Four days until Glacier, home

Rainbow — Last night after dinner. Never gets old.

Garmin Inreach Mini 2 set up screen — Best device for hiking backcountry and its technology gives me peace of mind when i’m in the wild. Been using a Garmin inReach MINi since 2019. Upgraded this year to a MINI 2. Activated it yesterday.

This will be our first summer in Glacier with a rented storage space.

We are organized to have everything we need waiting on us.

It’s a new structure and process after all these years.

Brainstorming improvements and implementing one of the ideas is fun.

And just like in our Disney careers, once an idea is implemented you immediately and instinctively begin improving the improvement.

Wheels up in four days.

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Above and beyond

Woman at a bar — Pretty civilized for Glacier.

Feeling confident that even though i can’t see or access my reservation, it’s legitimately in the lodging company’s system.

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Almost like it was yesterday

Two adults sitting in a home office — Margie and Johnny took the cross-country Amtrak train from Pennsylvania to visit us while we lived on campus at Washington State University. We, unregrettably, didn’t make it to Glacier.

i already know what to expect when i spend ample time in Glacier.

By the way, for context in ‘jeff-land’, one week is not ample time.

Neither is two.

Three weeks then?

Nope.

i can even extrapolate out to one month isn’t considered ample time.

So, going out in July and returning in October…..

Could be decent.

Note: Well aware the 2024 Hurricane forecast is the highest in the history of forecasting. There may be a compelling reason to return home to ride out a big one. This extraordinary hurricane forecast has remote potential to once again cut short the original plans to spend ‘ample’ 2024 time in Glacier. Time will tell. Happy present moment.

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Luxury canceled

Hotel reservation screen — First three weeks of June are cancelled. Why? Work.

Make grand plans. Adapt as necessary.
dad

Eye sight.

A necessity?

A right?

A gift?

A luxury?

Eye sight in one eye was cancelled the last eight months.

For the past three days, blindness is gone.

Sight restored.

Talk about a gift and a luxury.

WOW!

Blessed beyond measure.

Anxiety note: Yes, there’s a lingering anxiety about the lens failing to hold. And if it fails to hold, there’s been no talk of another sight option. It was easy to accept permanent blindness in the first 30 seconds of the initial blindness August 14, 2023. But now, with all the possibilities offered from corrective surgeries, it feels challenging to say goodbye to sight.

Bonus: A video from Covid lockdown 2020.

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C-ya real soon

Man in hat in stairwell — Always took the stairwell to and from DI HQ. This is the final exit trip. Next stop after this was Magic Kingdom Wardrobe, which was on my route home.

Painting of ships burning — Screenshot from Halloween Day, 2014. Starting at 5:00 PM October 31, 2014, it has been full on “burn the ships”.

Post it note — When a ‘tagline’ or marketing idea popped into my head, i found whatever i could and wrote it down. Later, i simply added it into Apple Notes.

i apply the Disney Way to my life, even “after Disney”.
dad

It’s been fun writing these blogs today while traveling home from our first Winter Glacier trip.

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