Long Weekend at the Resort

My ABWA conference was at the Gaylord Resort in Grapevine Texas (right outside of Dallas). What a beautiful resort and great conference we had. Those of us from Southern California were there to advertise our upcoming conference in 2006 at Anahiem California (disneyland). We all wore purple suits and did a dance on the last evening. Two whole people (out of about 1,000) came up and told us we did a good job.

It was soooo hot in Texas and now it is going to be so hot in California--what is going on with the weather. I was freezing in Tennessee a couple of weeks ago. The resort was climate controlled (it was all indoors, like Sam's Town in Vegas), so I wore my coat in the hotel (I'm always cold). When it got too cold, I went outside where it was quite toasty. The last day was very pleasant. Diane's daughter lives in Dallas, so she drove us to the airport after we stopped for breakfast. It was so nice, I wanted to move there. She allowed that the weather was unusual, but still.

On Thursday we has Scott McClellan's (Bush's press secretary) mom as our speaker. She's the Texas comptroller and a republican. She said that she was a single mom raising four sons who got mad and went to a school board meeting. Pretty soon, she was elected to the school board and later she became the first woman mayor of Austin. She's running for Govenor of Texas next year. Again, I wanted to move there to vote for her (I mean you have to be republican if you live in Texas--that's some kind of law I think).

It was so nice to be at a resort, I treated it like a real vacation. I read two dumb books and I bought a logic book on numbers called Suduko or Soduko or Sodoku or something like that. It is blocks of 9 and lists of 9. It is really engrossing because there is only one right answer. I'm a wiz at the easy ones, and I've done about five medium difficulty ones, but I'm stumped on a medium right now. It's haunting me--I must figure it out. I was giving my class logic problems, but I think I let them stick with the word puzzles so we can pretend that it's reading comprehension. Not a lot of academic skills involved in counting to 9.