By no means an apology, should this post appear late in your email inbox or appears on a social media channel. The reality is that it is being posted later than usual as my workload has increased significantly of late. As the month rolled on, Margo and I faced a number of looming deadlines happening almost all at once. Never a good situation for our small team juggling, as we have been doing, these priorities. Writing is my true calling, as is my storytelling that drives what I write. Fortunately, for someone close to the industry, there’s plenty of storylines to follow. But not without a cost, naturally. Having said this, it has been a period where AI has infiltrated some of my work. But let me be clear on this point, I am not, and will not, resort to AI to write my posts. Where I did have fun, however, was working with a popular AI client, in this case OpenAI’s ChatGPT, to come up with a series of caricatures some of which will find their way into my professional streams. ...
What is a symbol of what became central in our lives sits almost alone in a hotel parking lot. Our trusty Land Rover Defender served its purpose magnificently. Three return trips between Florida and Colorado reinforced how versatile this SUV truly is. It left Florida empty and returned from Colorado packed to the gunnels. Even though we had successfully professionally moved the bulk of our remaining possessions stashed within the confines of our Colorado condo, it still required those three separate return trips to move the personal effects we simply didn’t trust to movers. Nothing says finality as much as hanging inside the condo our last sets of keys and then closing the front door one last time. The click of the latch, a hollow reminder that for two plus years, this was our abode whenever we visited the children and the grandkids. Being able to literally hop around the corner to where they lived but the upside of this soon lost its tarnish as we put mile after mile on our vehicles...