View From the Bushes

Well, it's all but Thanksgiving. We're actually having two this year. The way it works in my family is a strict schedule of alternating between my family and the in-laws. This year it's the in-laws, but they decided to have theirs on Saturday, so we're going to end up going to my family's after all. As holidays go, Thanksgiving is pretty high on this list. In that spirit I came across a great Thanksgiving quote from Ayn Rand:

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.

Shortly after all the Thanksgiving festivities wind down I'll be flying to Boston for some training for a week. On the balance, I'm not looking forward to the trip. While I'm sure I'll do some fun things while I'm there, most of my time will be spent in day-long meetings. With the precision of Old Faithful I develop a headache 1 hour and 55 minutes into any meeting; I can only imagine that by the afternoon of day four that my head will explode in some dramatic fashion leaving the training room unusable for quite some time.

I guess that's not the best image to kick off the Thanksgiving vacation with, but it's the only one I've got.

On the precipice of gluttony
Ross