slog_20060205

Back to the old-style title.

Listening to public radio, classical music. Just took the violin music stand back upstairs, it is too cold to practice down here in the basement. Dryer is running. The usual. Labeling a few more folders to keep the organizing effort moving along. Long, slow, gradual process.

Went to the Y yesterday with Peter - racquetball, basketball (I stopped counting freethrows), swimming, beautiful late afternoon sun coming in on the pool, which we had to ourselves for some time.

Today, company came for lunch and afternoon. Very pleasant with the kids playing upstairs and the grown-ups sitting around talking. We don't do so much of that any more, it was good today.

Listened to more of Jim Collins Good to Great on CD while driving - section on brutal honesty, with Winston Churchill as example, he set up a function whose job was to give him unfiltered data about what was going on during the war, this separate from advisors who might/would be influenced by his charisma. He needed the facts.

'Just the facts, ma'am.'

There hasn't been enough laughing lately.