Tax day, and for once I’m not thinking about taxes. Except that I just mentioned it, so I guess I was. Starting off with a digression, not a good thing.

Headed down to breakfast with Amy a little before 7am. Today was the big event at the hotel with the Dalai Lama, and the meeting room next to where we had breakfast at the hotel was filled with the people for that event, and the line to get in was loooooooong. We were quickly ushered past the crowd and into the room where we picked up our boxed breakfast.

Yes, I said that correctly. Boxed breakfast. I’ve never had a boxed breakfast before. In the box was a muffin, a bottle of OJ, a fruit cup, and plasticware wrapped in a paper napkin. There was a separate bag you could get with a “warm” ham and egg croissant. Fortunately, my egg wasn’t runny. But it wasn’t that warm, either.
After breakfast, we headed over to the Redmond campus for our deep dive meetings. And, of course, I can’t talk about that.

We took a shuttle from the Redmond campus over to a dinner cruise on the lake at the end of the day, and spent a wonderful couple of hours on the lake mingling through discussions with many of the folks from the SBS and WHS crew, along with a number of MS employees. As was the case for the week up until that point, the weather was chilly and raining, and that kept most of the folks inside on the boat, but otherwise it was a delightful evening. I was able to have a number of discussions with several folks that were beneficial to me and my business, but most of all, it was good just to interact with the wide variety of people who were involved.

After the cruise, we took the bus back to the hotel, where I promptly went upstairs and went to sleep. Yeah, not that exciting, sorry. But that’s how it was. I’ve adapted to the time zone, but I’m still needing 6-8 hours of sleep a night, and hopefully I’ll continue to get that.

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