9,658 Miles and Counting

In the past 2 weeks I have flown approximately 9,658 miles and been in 4 major cities. Last week was New York. I had been there only once before when I was 21. It was an amazing experience then but without having lived in a major city before it was overwhelming. After living the past 4 years in SF and re-visiting the center of the universe it was a much different experience. It was also extremely exciting to conduct business there. My week went a little like this.

• 10:30 pm Sunday - Catch red eye to JFK
• 6:07 am Monday - Land JFK, Catch a cab to the Hudson Hotel with a nice detour through Central Park. Runners, Bikers by the hundreds.
• 7:00 am Monday - PullSupermanman in my phone booth sized room, put on the suit and tie.
  8:00 am - Visit the Economist Magazine
• 10:00 am - Visit Werner Media, the Producers of Rolling Stone, Us Magazine, and Men's Journal. Get a tour of the hallway that has every Rolling Stone Magazine ever produced. It also happens that the owner collects rock and roll art (some of the coolest painting of Hendrix I have ever seen. Found the issue of rolling stone that was released on my birthday, Steve Martin is on the cover. This hallway is a virtual rock and roll time machine. It's also a living tribute to all the rockstars and actors that went to soon, Belushi, Hendrix, Cobain, Chris Farley, Jim Morrison, and so on.
• 11:00 am - cab/visit/cab/visit
• 6:00 PM - Dinner with CIO of Customer.

The rest of the week was very much the same. I had my big presentation at 3 Times square the next day in the Reuters building. (pictured above) Suits, Ties, my Account Exec and Sales VP, 14 atttheirs on thier end including theipressureNo presure at all. It was nice to get that one out of the way. I definately felt on top of the world rolling out onto time square after a good visit. The rest of the week was just as packed but my AE spoiled me. We went to nice restaurants and bars and worked our a$$es off.

Yesterday (Monday) I flew out to Chicago for a big deal today. The demo lasted 3 hours. After that I ducked into a Ramada near O'Hare to do another quick demo. After that I flew out to Minneapolis, MN where I am writing this. Very cool downtown. There is one main block that has no cars filled with cafe's, shops, and pubs. Tomorrow I have an event to work for theThereany. supposedre suposed to be several hundred people there. Should be fun.