DATELINE: hotel, Knoxville TN, 29 March 2006

Great day yesterday at Oak Ridge National Lab. Briefed PNM and BFA and Development-in-a-Box to the National Security division there across the morning, and then a Thought Leadership meeting across the afternoon.

Then took my pickup (yes, a big-ass rental pickup!) to Knoxville and attended a very nice dinner for speakers and associated luminaries with this Churchill conference I'm speaking at today.

Had Bradd Hayes gin up about 10 new slides for me for this brief, which really allows me to explore the transAtlantic alliance like I've never done before in my presentations, so I'm giving a radically different brief this time, although 15 slides are classics and another 10 are just other Bradd slides from BFA that I only rarely use. Still, not a one-off brief, as I will be using these slides in the future, I know.

But always exciting to give a brief that's dramatically different. Puts some butterflies in the stomach.

My great thanks to Bradd for the sweet new slides generated so fast (overnight, two nights in a row) Do I have a cool set-up or what?

This is why I stole Bradd from the Naval War College to come work for Steve and I at Enterra. It's like having an extra brain in my head.