Monday Blues

It was a tough day. Maybe it was because I stayed at the reindeer party much longer than I had planned. It was a lot of fun! Great food, hot chocolate & hot apple cider, some good music, all the reindeer, and just about everyone on my immediate staff plus their significant others. There was some great story-telling on each other too. Before I knew it, it was almost 3am. So I only got about an hour of sleep and still had to cut my run down to a mere 15 minutes (I figured something was better than nothing), in order to make my morning flight.

I started the day with a trip to Asia as I had to visit one of our new factories in Guangzho, China. The visit there went fairly well though I was surprised to learn that we do not have a sufficient Disaster Recovery plan in place. I'll be sending Candy or Bo down to follow-up with the 3rd party vendor we have running the facility there.

But the real challenges started with my trip from China to India. I went to India for the same reason... to visit a production facility. But the weather between China & India was horrible. I had to re-route, which normally wouldn't be a big deal but there were military exercises underway and we had to take a significant detour. While I was in India, we had a major power outage. The facility there struggles with consistent power all the time... and in fact, we have put in our own generators; however, a major power surge hit the grid and took even our generators offline for 3 hours. Eventually, I made my way to a handful of visits in Europe before leaving for North America. Due to some pretty extreme weather conditions, most of my North American appearances were cancelled, except across the Southern states.

Anyway, I've been behind schedule all day. In fact, I'm just now getting settled to where I can eat dinner. So that's what I'm going to do now and then spend some time prepping for a presentation I have to make at a CEO Executive Conference tomorrow. I'll be speaking to 50 of the Fortune 200 CEOs... want to make sure its impactful. Goodnight, all.