Blast From The Past

Nicole and I went to the "Eagles" concert down in Denver last night, thanks to the generosity of our pastor who gave us two free tickets. We were way up in the 'nosebleed' section, but had a GREAT time together.  The concert started at 8pm, and we finally left around 11 because Nicole has school today.  Almost every song they played catapulted me back to my days in High School in Kenya, as the Eagles were huge back then.  I laughed when I saw the stadium filled with gray heads - but then, the Eagles are all in their 60's too.  "Hotel California", "Take it Easy" and "Desperado" ... it was Rockin' last night, and those old guys can still crank it out.  I bought Nicole a T-shirt and myself a baseball cap to commemorate the evening.  I loved every minute.

We're finally going to see some more of our beautiful state this weekend when we drive down to Gunnison for a retreat with several other families  - all CCC staff or former staff like us.  Looks like the weather should be beautiful as well.  Of course, the weather is always beautiful in Colorado.

I went through the first "dry run" of my crisis training material with six of the Journey staff on Tuesday.  I think they came because Michael asked them to be there (he was sick that day), but by the end of the morning they were all psyched-up to get ready for the next crisis.  It was kind of a surreal experience in some ways:  I felt like an ex-CIA operative who now works as a sales clerk... and no one knows about his former life.  The team here only knows us in the context of our life here in Conifer - and for the first time they heard some of the stories about crises we dealt with in Egypt, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan...  I'm sure it's hard for them to imagine me in that world.

  I just received the first few dozen copies of our new Storm Guides brochure, and it looks GREAT!  I finally have something printed to give to prospective clients, and the beautiful full-color brochure should add some measure of credibility to the company.