A sinus headache is no way to start out a day, especially a day that included the second half of a two day Chip Conrad seminar. The seminar included a lot of why and not just a lot of what, and it was a bit much for me. I know why I do the things I do and I don’t really care that much about why others do what they do. Well, I do care, but I don’t care enough to listen to a guy for several hours about his philosophy on Powerpoint slides. Ideas are fine, but trying to wrap it all up with a pretty bow just kind of annoys me. If I wanted that, I’d go to church. It’s worth listening to Chip Conrad to get to the good bits, though, and he’ll even tell you to listen to lots of things and throw away what doesn’t work for you.

I think I was rude to a friend of mine this morning, who told me I looked good the other day. The problem is, I didn’t believe her. I never believe anyone who tells me that because I only hear things like that from people’s grandmothers. If you’re not 40 years older than me (and that’s getting hard to do nowadays) I’m not used to hearing anything like that and I may not have the proper reaction. I should have said, “Thanks,” but I said something snotty instead. I was also suffering from a sinus headache at the time, which I mentioned previously. I’m more used to hearing, “You’re old,” (heard from several people at the gym this week and repeatedly from the guy who owns the gym) or, “Those are the stupidest looking glasses I’ve seen,” (heard several times at work since the start of the year), but not a lot of compliments. That’s the world of guys, I suppose, but I think I’ve been on a downhill slide lately. Nowhere to go but up when you hit the bottom, but the bottom could be a long ways off.