Surfacing ...
Tuesday, October 18, 2005 at 1:08PM Dateline: Holiday Inn Express in MD, near DC, 18 October 2005
Talk last night to hundreds of cadets at New Mexico Military Institute went well. Bed very late, then up very early for dawn flight out of Roswell NM back to Albuquerque. Then a SWA direct to BWI, all the way I'm working like crazy to get new BFA brief just so. Way too many slides, but all pretty quick, so I'm really uncertain about how far I'll go tomorrow at National Defense U, where I unveil it.
Nostalgic, last night was (the jet-lagged traveler, says, lapsing in Yoda-speak), and that was the last time I'll ever give the PNM brief in that form. From here on out, it's combined PNM/BFA, or just BFA. My brief tomorrow at NDU will feature just two slides from PNM (map and splitting the force, or basically the first and last slides of the old brief). Yikes!
Wish I had night off to dick with brief til 3am, but have dinner with congressmen planned, so duty calls. I am likely to be up most of the night. Giving second brief at classified military site later in day tomorrow. Then I chill at hotel (I hope, unless another dinner set up) and I go like the wind on Thursday with PR handler Paul Peachy (not sure I spell that right). Paul is way cool and way fun. Had him last time.
Two things to watch:
1) Washington Post tomorrow (no guarantees . . .)
2) ad in NYT on Friday (think that is a definite since Putnam pays for it!).
BFA in the hundreds on Amazon (277 when last I checked on Treo; I sometimes go 5, maybe 10 minutes between checks. Very exciting to be in the triple digits again!
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