{"id":4661,"date":"2010-08-16T17:05:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T00:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=4661"},"modified":"2010-08-21T19:08:47","modified_gmt":"2010-08-22T02:08:47","slug":"my-moms-85th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2010\/08\/16\/my-moms-85th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"My mom’s 85th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aviva and I boarded Iggy for his first extended overnight (we did a one night test run first) and flew to Columbus, Ohio on Southwest Airlines for my mom’s 85th birthday on August 15; I brought along my copy of Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations<\/a> which I read on the flight. Very good book, now I’m thinking about teaching a mini-course at work (maybe a Toastmasters project?) on giving good presentations.<\/p>\n

We got to meet my sister’s and husband’s new dog Mikey, a terrier mix rescue; he was kind of stand-off-ish and growled a lot (you can check out the video below, taken on my iPhone 3GS – amazing what these little hand-held computers can do).<\/p>\n

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We ordered in dinner and had a great time talking and catching up.<\/p>\n

Since I read my book on the way out, I bought a copy of Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose<\/a>; I read about 2\/3 of the book on the flight, I highly recommend it already.<\/p>\n

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Aviva and I boarded Iggy for his first extended overnight (we did a one night test run first) and flew to Columbus, Ohio on Southwest Airlines for my mom’s 85th birthday on August 15; I brought along my copy of Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations which I read […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t