So, my brother Mike from Cleveland, OH was in town for the day with his wife. They were staying at my other brother's house. My other, other brother lives out of town, so he wasn't with us. For the record, my sister was not in town, but let's not muddy the story here. Brothers, spouses and kids all went to the Wisconsin State Fair for some good old fashioned fun. Play a few games on the midway, ride the Big Slide, eat some fresh corn on the cob and take in a big old steak sandwich (from the Wisconsin Cattleman's Association, no less) are just some of the evening's activities. Later, we all headed to my brother's house (no, the other one) and sat around and talked and played some poker. There is nothing better than cleaning out the teenage nephews of their summer fun money in a game of poker.
Mike and Amanda are back on their way to Cleveland as I write this. I need to spend more time with them. We don't see enough of each other.
So while all of this fun was taking place, across town in Pewaukee, WI at the Microsoft offices, the INETA executive committee (EC) was meeting. With the Sales Ninja's departure from his job at Serlio Software to become some kind of marketing guy at Microsoft, a vacancy was created within Wisconsin INETA. And what a vacancy it is. Brian will be missed. So the EC (no, not Emergent Computation) did some shuffling and the results are:
- Scott Isaacs - President of Wisconsin INETA
- Gerry Heidenreich - Vice President of Wisconsin INETA
- optionsScalper (You are already here, so I'm not linking myself) - Newest member of Wisconsin INETA Executive Committee. My official title as listed in the meeting minutes is "Vice President in Charge of Looking out the Window" which is good, because I'm really, really good at that. Of course this means that I must stop wearing my Spiderman, Batman and other Halloween costumes to the INETA meetings.
The amazing thing about all of this is that I was likely on the Big Slide at the Fair when I was given this position. I'm hoping to spend more EC meetings contributing in this fashion . . .
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NOTE: Everyone should click into Julie Lerman's "old fashioned fun" link. That post is easily my favorite of any of her recent posts. I have a daughter that loves dogs and the simple way that Julie describes the driveway and "playing with my dogs" is a treasure ((Scalper reveals a soft underbelly for a fraction of a second)).
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