Thanksgiving - 2009
This is the thanksgiving weekend in the USA. Today, we will enjoy dinner with good friends, and take time out to recover from the flu that visited our household this week.We give thanks for being in the USA, being employed, and being together as a family. What are you thankful for today?During the weekend, I am setting goals and planning 2010 activities. What are your plans for 2010? Now is a great time to think about your professional development goals for 2010, and put your training workshops and courses onto your calendar. How will you improve your skills in 2010, so that you have more to be thankful for next year at Thanksgiving?

Camping trip with Boy Scouts
The leaves have fallen in Connecticut, as you can see from this photo. I just invested the weekend in camping with the boy scout tr

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Do the math
We left Johannesburg last night, about 9:20 PM. We flew for 16 hours, and covered 8,700 turbulent miles before touching down in Atlanta this morning at 6 AM. So let's see - that is 9 PM, plus 16 hours of flying during the night, means that it is 3 PM, yet we were on the ground at 6 AM?With body clocks stuck somewhere over the Atlantic, we are once again safe and sound in South Windsor. Kudos to Delta for excellent service and on flight arrivals. I notice that the International leg of our journey attracts the granny brigade of cabin crew. No matter, with creaks and groans they catered to our needs and we arrived well-fed and watered.It was a very successful and fun t

Swapping stories
Presentation at PMSA in Johannesburg went extremely well last night. Great audience. I enjoyed swapping stories with like-minded project managers and learning about PMSA.Project managers in South Africa face many of the same challenges that project managers in the USA face, including non-standard operating procedures across departments and cross-cultural challenges.Project managers in South Africa face a challenge that we don't even consider in the USA - the horrendous cost of Internet access. In South Africa, users pay by the kilobyte of data download for Internet access, which makes it very expensive to work remotely. In the USA, Internet