It is going to be one of those weeks...

Monday

• Meet with bank and accountant. Show them reams of paper that show we're profitable and that we have a healthy balance sheet, which we do.
  
• Meet with ad rep from radio station. Figure out how to cut another $5,000 from the budget for 2009.
• Throw the tennis ball for Gracie so she'll at least appear sane to the average passerby.
• Do the stuff I'd normally do on Monday and Tuesday.

Tuesday

• Staff Meeting. Booyah.
• Finish marketing and advertising calendar for '09.
• Live inside an Excel spreadsheet for most of the day.
• Wonder if I'll take that time off I promised myself I would take off.
• Shake off the feeling and resign myself to some time off in January. If the stars align anyway...
  

Wednesday

• Get up early and pack my bags.
• Prep the Element for a road trip. Remove rear seats, add Thermarest and cooler.
• Drive to Kentucky for a board meeting 'cause the plane tickets were $900. Yeah, right.
  
• Eat food I packed in the morning to avoid eating anything from a restaurant with a drive-through. Cracker Barrel has an honorary drive-through. Waffle House too.
  
• Stay in a Comfort Inn and Suites.

Thursday

• Attend board meeting in a Comfort Inn and Suites meeting room. All day.
  
• Resist temptation to commit ritual suicide with a cheap ballpoint pen supplied by the Comfort Inn and Suites, as if none of us remembered to bring writing instruments with us.
• Hope to end before 4:00 PM so as to drive all afternoon and evening and get home at a decent hour.
• Fail to get done by 4:00 PM.

Friday

• Assume I will be staying in Cincinnati for Thursday night, get up at 5:30 AM so as to drive through Chicago between 10:30 AM and 12:30 PM. Otherwise I'm hosed.
• Get home.
• Unpack, shower.
• Leave for Milwaukee for the weekend at an Irish B&B to get some quality spouse time.

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That's it. In a nutshell. There's a lot more that didn't fit in the nutshell, but suffice it to say that it's going to be a helluva week. I don't like driving sixteen hours for a six hour meeting, it's sick and wrong but it's going to be a tight squeeze to get quorum anyway. The good news is that with half the board plus one, we'll get more done in theory.

Wish me luck,

Canoelover