Making the call, answering the calls
Dateline: In the Shire, Indiana, 9 September 2005
Hard to get ahead in this game. Stuff to get done, but when I get a day home, I have to spend it working travel like nobody's business, buying airfare and splitting up future trips in my mind (Who pay's what? What town am I in that night? Do I get the hotel? Is anyone picking me up at the airport?).
Between now and the end of the year I have two big Navy audiences, one Air Force, associations from each, a trip to Central Command and then, today, a request today from the Office of the Secretary of Defense for a very short fuse response. I'm on the phone with lotsa officers today, making me feel like I never left the DoD.
So my trip to DC next week starts a day early, and what was originally supposed to be a single brief day now has morphed into a triple-brief day.
I swear, I cancel more flights in a year than most people fly in their lifetimes. CONUS is my commute.
Here's the daily catch:
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