I'm back ..... and dry

Hi all,

Sorry I was gone for a couple of days. We had some major, "storm of the century" type activity here in central AZ and that's never a good time to have the computer running for very long. We even had a tornado warning (watch got upgraded last night).

I hope everyone came through it OK.

To get you caught up, we had our first "Big Picture" presentation for the Leadership Academy. This was for our study of the political frame of organizational leadership. Ken Bennett, AZ Secretary of State was the keynote speaker. A very nice and likable guy. Didn't seem quite like your average politician you see on the news a lot.... I mean that in a good way. He had some interesting insights into politics, both governmental politics and office politics.

The day continued with some after lunch discussions between ourselves and several Library Directors from around the state, some learning/team building/networking activities and then after the day long event a few of us spent a few hours at the Spaghetti Factory in Phoenix for some food and more discussion. BTW, they no longer offer eggplant parmesan even though it is on the menu. Waiter said all eggplant items have been cancelled and will no longer be offered. Bummer. I had the chicken parmesan instead. Not even close. to eggplant parmesan or chicken parmesan at a lot of other places. Very disappointing. At least there was good conversation.

Until tomorrow. (I'm still trying to think up a new catch-phrase)