Deja Vu All Over Again

So how many times can you reach the point where you are almost done with something?  Have you ever noticed that when you are in the last ten percent of a task and you think you are just about done, something comes unstuck and then you are not quite about done, so you fix that and something else gets fuzzy and you fix that and so on and so forth.  I could swear that a number of comics I have read and cartoons I have seen build on this premise that there is always one more leak in the dyke than you can plug with your hands, feet and nose. :-)

Sometimes, when you can't get something done, you have to get it to a certain point and then decide that you are done, at least for now.  The draft calendar for example, simply has to go to print for the workshop and unfortunately, it seems that some of the people in organizations other than mine are not quite as fully fleshed out on the details of their events as we are.  So it looks like we have dates reserved and sometimes places but no times and sometimes no places.  But since these things are for other people to decide, we are just going to go with the calendar we've got without them and hope that in another month, when it is time for the Itinerary to go to print, these things will be filled out.  Sigh!

Appointments are proceeding well and hopefully we will be all finished with all of those in time for the Itinerary.  I still have a few people that I have not asked yet and a few that I have asked that haven't gotten back to me, but I have heard a rumor that sometimes people go on vacation and don't answer their phones or their e-mail during that time.  Can you imagine that?  Disconnected people - Wow!  I wasn't sure that was allowed in this world any more.

The agendas for all the Schools are done and we have started lining up the staff members to teach at the various events.  And the books and the workshop packet materials, all but the infernal calendar, are ready to go to the printer.  I am still feeling a little crunched though, because there is plenty still to do and we are picking up our travel schedule again, starting tonight, so I will be back to squeezing things in at the airport, late evenings at the office, and riding in the back seat of the car.  Of course, the nice thing about the back seat is that you can put a pillow behind you and stretch out your legs and put the laptop in your lap and type away.  At least, I can, thank goodness.  Some people I hear can't look down in the car.  That would be tough.

I have to believe that planning for the year is actually harder than doing the year, to keep alive the hope that the light at the end of the tunnel is not in fact an oncoming train, but of course I could just be drinking the Kool Aid when I think that.

This weekend, I am going to Yorba Linda, Riverside and the Grand Treasurer's reception, which is someplace that I can't remember, but I just get in the car and the car goes to the right place and then I get out and I am there and then I get back in the car and it takes me someplace else and that is the right place too.  It must be a magic car. :-)