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There’s nothing like a eight o’clock conference call on Monday morning to kick the week off right. I mute the line and tap into some streaming ambient on XM to help the coffee slide down my throat. My company just announced a record quarter, so the mood floating through the air is lined with positivity for the most part. My coworker came into work with a dazed look in his eyes after chancing an elevator ride with the lady I mentioned a week or two ago that works in my building. Yes, she is that beautiful. Staring out my window, all I see is the promise of rain. Fitting for a Monday succeeding a nearly perfect weathered weekend. I am to be in Dallas tomorrow for a regional meeting. I never really cared for the DFW area however, I can’t seem to find the why. I usually don’t mind these gatherings as long as there is some productive outcome. This one won’t fall into that category. We are meeting at some fancy schmancy private club for an afternoon of golf. /sigh. I’ll be nice to see my out of town associates again, but the golf course wouldn’t be my first choice. For statistical accuracy, we’ll probably follow with a nice dinner together at some Dallas “where to be seen” sort of restaurant (read: loud, obnoxious, overpriced, and without character… but likely full of Dallas’s ”pretty people”). I’m working out of the Dallas office on Wednesday and driving back to Houston that evening on my $900 worth of tires I had to put on my truck on Friday. Highway robbery. Apparently, I need Kevlar in my tires these days. I’m ready for Fallujah. My favorite club, the 5 wood, is still snapped at the head. A friend borrowed it last fall and beheaded it, but I play so little golf, I never had it repaired. Funny. I play enough to know it’s my favorite club, but not enough to care to have it fixed. Outside of the Dallas extravaganza, this week should (knock on wood) be relatively slow with regard to work. I’m feeling much better after two days of rest and am ready to get back in the gym today. We’ll see how it goes.