I'm 33 today. I'm now as old as my wife. I'm so very blessed. I'm out of town this week, but I have had about 20 e-mails wishing me a happy birthday and about 20 phone calls doing the same. My favorite was Madeline's entire Kindergarden class calling and singing happy birthday to me. How many people have that many friends who would take the time to do that? Being out of town on my birthday sucks, but what a way to make up for it. All that, plus my hotel room has two bathrooms (and I just noticed that it has two thermostats).

Tough couple of days with work. I'm in Birmingham with a great group, but just had stuff going on with my team that's been tough this week. Interesting follow-on from my leadership trianing last week.