Oh, the rigors of this job. Spent all of last week in Florida at five-star hotels attending two confer-ences focused on business-technology execu-tives (our own Information Week Spring Conference and then the Oracle CIO Executive Summit)... had to choke down a few of those 7-inch-diameter cookies that seem to pop into existence only for 15 minutes at a time on tables outside ballrooms at 10:45 a.m. and 3:15 p.m.... sparked flood warnings throughout the state by hitting several thousand golf balls into lakes, ponds, streams, oceans, swimming pools, bathtubs, and car washes ... heard former President George H.W. Bush describe with glee how he and three of his grandchildren are going to arrive at his upcoming 80th birthday party via parachute jump from an airplane ... and sat in awe, humbled and enchanted, as former astronaut An-dew Allen talked of flying the space shuttle at 17,500 mph, circling the globe in 90 minutes and growing 2-3/4 inches during each 16-day journey.
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