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Geez, Man.  It is Memorial Day weekend.  It is supposed to be hot.  It is Indy 500 time (shades of my youth, you know).  A few hundred thousand people running around a racetrack - too many of them who’ve had too much to drink because it is so danged hot!

So…what does that have to do with anything?  Almost nothing…and a lot.  Ms. Jill and I were driving to our place in Steamboat Springs, CO today.  And what did we drive through?  A virtual white out!  On May 23!  Are you kidding me?

One of things I love the most about Steamboat is the hot springs.  My favorite time at the hot springs is when snow is falling.  Well tonight…the Friday of Memorial Day weekend…I sat in the hot springs at Steamboat for a couple hours with snow everywhere!  Too cool.  I loved it.

What global warming?

Ms. Jill and I are spending the weekend here.  It is my goal to spend 5 nights a month in Steamboat.  Guess I’m a little behind.  The last time we were here was February.  I can’t remember for sure - but I  think tonight will be the 4th night this YEAR.  OOOOOPS.  

It will be a weekend of doing a little work, a lot of bike riding, taking a few hundred pictures and just hanging out with Ms. Jill.  Is this heaven yet?

Here’s hoping your Memorial Day will be everything you would love, too.

PS - of sorts…I spent the last couple days before coming to Steamboat this afternoon hanging with my friend and AdWords guy extraordinaire Simon Leung.  We cooked on some ideas I think will be powerful.  Simon and I have to work out some details…but I’m really amped about doing some things with him.  

I’m an old guy.  But I LOVE hanging out with really smart young people like Simon and SuperAssistant Amber.

I’m back home in Denver - and that sure feels good.  

Ms. Jill and I completed the Brendon Burchard Nonprofit and Corporate Partnership Bootcamp in San Mateo, CA over the weekend.  It was fantastic.  I’m not one of those seminar junkies, by any stretch of the imagination.  I rarely do them.  

That said, I loved Brendon’s event.  I learned more than I’d hoped for.  How often can you say that??

The networking was also outstanding.  We reconnected with some old friends and made some new ones.  That makes for what I’d call a great weekend.

We got home late Sunday night.  Monday and yesterday were workdays.  I like those.  Nothing special - just hard work moving what needs to be done forward.

Our friend and Google AdWords expert Simon Leung shows up today to spend a couple days with us.  He’s here to be the keynote speaker at the Rockies Venture Club Spring event.  It will be fun to spend some quality time with Simon.

We will go to our place in Steamboat Springs over the Memorial Day weekend.  It will good to spend some quality time with Ms. Jill, on my bike, and at one of my favorite places in the world: the hot springs at Steamboat!

Then it will be off to Canada Tuesday for most of next week.

An old man’s work is never done!  That, my friends, is a good thing.

Ms. Jill and I spent all day Friday and Saturday at Brendon Burchard’s Nonprofit & Corporate Sponsorhip Bootcamp.  There will be more starting in a few minutes…I can’t wait.

The hours pass like minutes.  This guy is magical in his presentation.  Plus…there is serious meat inside.

If you get a chance to attend one of his events…do it!

It is interesting to me that the demographics of the crowd are significantly older than ‘normal’ marketing seminars.  I asked Brendon if he knows why at the VIP dinner last night.  He doesn’t!

All I can say…old folks, keep coming.  This guy can teach a lot of us new ways to do our business….while adding value to a society that needs it.

Thanks, Brendon.  I’ll be back.

You need to understand. I love water…for sailing on or showering in or getting drenched by on a hot summer day when I’m on my bike. I HATE beaches.

After two consulting days in San Diego and an unpleasant Wednesday in Tijuana with doctors sticking needles in my bad eye, I flew to San Francisco yesterday. Jill flew in from Denver. We are here to attend Brendon Burchard’s bootcamp.

But first, a little ‘fun’. Our friend Ruby Yeh (http://www.AliveAuthorsNetwork.com) picked me up at SFO. She and Jill had already talked and decided the three of us were going to go over the hill (pun intended) and visit the lovely beaches at Half Moon Bay. It has probably been 20 years since I’ve been over there. It has changed - but was amazing to me it hasn’t changed even more.

You need to understand. Both Jill and Ruby are beach people. I’d rather hang by my thumbs that walk around a beach…

At least I had a camera with me.

It was atypical NorCal weather. Driving along the 101 from SFO to San Mateo the temperature reached 100 degrees! In May! Amazing.

That said - the beaches at Half Moon Bay are almost always cold and foggy. At 6 pm I’d guess the average temperature is somewhere around 50. Well, this day it was in the mid-70s and little fog. Even I have to admit it was gorgeous.

I didn’t like the beach part - but got about a gigabyte of pics. Some of them are pretty good.

Jill & Ruby loved it.

We then had dinner at a bay side old restaurant. I went away from my normal raw diet and ate a plate of seafood paella - that was wonderful!

The pic is Jill and Ruby at one of the scenic spots along the way. Love of my life Jill is the one on the left.

How does this happen?  It seems like I updated this blog a couple days ago.  But NO - it’s been a week.  I HAVE to get better at this stuff.

I’m sitting at Denver International Airport, waiting for a flight to San Diego.  I don’t fly often.  My bad eye REALLY doesn’t like airplanes.  I didn’t see any other choice this trip.  I’m going to San Diego for a couple days to work, across the border to Tijuana to let Doctors try to beat up on my bad eye, then up to the San Francisco area for Brendon Burchard’s seminar next weekend.  If I drove all that - it is almost 3,000 miles.  I don’t have 5 days - at least - to spend on the Interstate system right now.

So…I sit here nervous as a wh*** in church.  Know what I mean?

I’m seriously looking forward to Brendon’s seminar.  I didn’t know him when I called him to speak at my The Capital Factor (www.TheCapitalFactor.com) conference last month.  I LOVED what he talked about and decided while he was making his presentation to attend his event.  Ms. Jill is coming along, too.  I’m interested in what Brendon has to teach.  It is a bullseye as far as Jill’s business; she really needs to go.

I was pleasantly surprised Jill’s eye doctor is letting her fly.  Her shingles are better - but there is still a lot going on.  She’s tired and in pain.  Not a good combination.  Poor baby.  If you guys have any spare good thoughts PLEASE send them her way.

I had some fun yesterday.  Another oldster decided she’s going to train and ride her bike in Ms. Jill’s Celebration ride.  I have no idea how many years it has been since she’s been on a bike.   Let’s just speculate that kids could have been born and be in college by now…

I took her to my favorite bike shop (CycleAnalyst in Denver) and helped her buy a new bike for the training and event.  Another old fart converted.  YEAH!

I rode 4 times this week.  Not as hard as I should have ridden - but was at least out there spinning.  

I also think I came up with the idea for a dynamite new business this week.  More about that later.

One of my primary goals this year is to comfortably ride my bicycle 100 miles on October 11 for Jill’s Celebration Ride. I’m getting a later start than I would like to get in shape for the event. I have an excuse or two-a brain surgery in February followed by a 2 1/2 day seminar in April.

But I don’t really believe in excuses.

One of the reasons I bought a fixed gear bike last winter was the theory that riding a ‘fixie’ will get you in shape faster than riding a regular bicycle.  I haven’t tested it enough to know yet - but after today I’m encouraged.

I haven’t ridden much - but what I have has been almost all on the fixie.  I pulled out my trusty road bike today for a spin.  I didn’t ride real far…only about 1/3 of the October goal.  BUT - I did ride pretty hard.  In fact, I averaged 1.8 miles per hour faster than any other ride this year!

The old man is makin’ progress.  That’s a good thing!

Wow!  It is late Saturday night and I just realized I haven’t posted to this blog all week.  Blame it on a senior mind?

NOT!!

I just got busy and, frankly, oldmansrevenge.com wasn’t at the forefront of what was going on.

I missed my first Big Seminar in years last weekend.  Armand Morin puts on a world-class event.  I love the learning and networking at BIG.  But, I’d been traveling the week before and had considerable problems with my bad eye during flights.  I just couldn’t face another plane trip a few days after.  So…I missed out.

Friends who were there report it was, as always, a super event.  I’ll be at the next one in October (assuming it isn’t the same weekend as Jill’s Celebration Ride - I haven’t checked the dates).

I also probably buried a business last week.  It is a long story - but one of my partners went off on another and his family.  I see no way to recover from that.  My guess is all of us will walk away.  Too bad.  The company hadn’t done as well as it should - but things were looking up for it.

Love of my life Ms. Jill had a tough week.  Those of you who know us know she recently survived breast cancer.  Last Sunday she started complaining - a lot - about a headache and pain in her eye.  Believe me, eye pain is something I can relate to.  She got in to see her oncologist Monday.  It seems she has shingles - in her eye!  She feels awful.  She looks awful.  My heart goes out to her - but all I can do is support whatever she asks for.  There is no way I can think of to do anything else.

I’ve never had shingles.  It is supposed to be very painful.  Ms. Jill is going through that.  Kind thoughts toward her will be appreciated!

Something fun did happen.  Lynn Pierce asked me to speak this August in Scottsdale at her Woman’s Business Empowerment Summit.  I hear Lynn puts on a terrific event.  A few friends will also be speaking.  I’m looking forward to it.

I spent today trying to learn a few things about the real estate market at a bootcamp sponsored by the Real Talk Network.  I’m the first to say I know less about real estate than anyone else I know.  That said - it was an interesting day and I learned a lot.

I did get three fixed gear bike rides in this week.  Not riding enough yet - but three rides is better than none!

There was a bad downside to the week, too.  I was out of line and went off on the best employee I’ve had in years.  She wasn’t performing well - but there are reasons for that and I knew them.  She deserved support - not stress.

Do you think I have a chance of growing up soon?  Maybe by the time I’m 90??  DAMN - I know better.