It all comes together today.

So the PEERI & II groups meet together with the FBI this morning, we have a special invite only lunch and then public presentation which we have over 100 signed up to attend. As usual I did not sleep very well last night.

Is the room going to be ok?
Are people going to show up?
Is the presentation going to be good?
And generally is everything what I expect it to be?

I have become more and more dependant on the team to get the details done. From Nicki taking care of facilities, to Keven and Tammy handling marketing, Mark taking care of the presenters and their needs. There are so many things that have to come together for these events to be successful that it is almost impossible to handle all the details yourself.

I am not sure why I get worried about these details, the team has not let me down in the past. In fact they have always exceeded expectation.

Maybe the lack of sleep has more to do with my performance. I have to be "ON" today. From leading the PEER group, to getting the folks down and through the lunch and of course keeping things rolling through the afternoon. I am not sure what to expect other than to have the confidence that I can handle what ever comes my way!

You would think you would know when your being interviewed for an artical?

I thought he was calling about attending the event.

Anyway, great free press.


By RYAN CHRISTNER
rchristner@dailynews.net
Two agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation will appear Tuesday in Hays for a presentation on cyber crime sponsored by Nex-Tech.
The event starts at 1 p.m. in the conference room at Whiskey Creek, 3203 Vine, and is expected to last about three hours. It is open to all who wish to attend, although registration is mandatory due to limited seating.
Addressing the audience will be Robin Smith, an agent with the Kansas field office in Garden City, and Cyber Crime Special Agent Scott Kice from Kansas City.
"We had some customers with issues that got the FBI involved," Nex-Tech Sales Supervisor Steve Riat said of how the event got started.
Riat said his company cultivated a relationship with Smith out of those incidents, and this special, free presentation for local residents and businesses was "the next step."
The two agents will begin by discussing common cyber threats, such as recent increased efforts to attack computer systems via social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn, things to look for and steps to take if you have been scammed or intruded upon, and how to keep the chain of evidence intact "so they can properly prosecute the bad guys," Riat said.
A question-and-answer session will follow.
As of Thursday afternoon, about 50 openings remained for the presentation.
Registration can be completed by visiting www.nex-tech.com/fbi or by calling Tammy Wellbrock, direct sales account representative for Nex-Tech, at (877) 625-7872.

3 MLB games in one year?

I must be sick.

Anyway, we had a great time going to the game. We had amazing Crown tickets. Let me take a minute explaining these seats.

First of all they came with a parking pass. We parked about 40 yards from the entrance. You enter through a tunnel and meet a guy that takes care of you. He directs us to the elevator which has an attendant. You go to level one and the elevator opens up to the bar. Behind the bar is a dining area where there was prime rib, ribs, all the deserts you can handle and more. You sit and are taken care of like a king.

We wanted to check out the seats. You go out a private door to behind the catchers plate. We were the seats directly next to the Royals dug out. (Not above, next to) and 3 rows up. So we were about 5 feet from the team and about 8 feet behind where the batters warm up. Needless to say they were great. The seats were cushy and great. The waitress came by about every 20 min asking if there was anything she could get us. (All free)

And of the bathrooms were even marble. AT A BASEBALL GAME?

You really get a different perspective when you are this close. From the speed of the pitches to the power behind hits. We had a great time

Then to finish was the fireworks display. What a great weekend.

Doing an event in September that you should attend Virtually

As you already know if you read this blog regularly (Which you should). My good friend Jonathan that works at Marco in St.Cloud Minnesota and I did a presentation at the HTG all event in Dallas. We really had a good response. I have had the great experience of doing a similar, yet longer presentation at HTG 15 in Denver a couple of weeks ago. The feed back and more importantly the follow up from that group has been outstanding.

So now we take this to a bigger audience with some training sessions that Microsoft puts on. I hope you can join us for that event.

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You will see us third down.

To serve is to rule

I especially enjoyed Gitomer's rant this week. If you haven't signed up for his weekly caffeine email. DO IT.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFWHGdfLE1c

Simple, to the point and dead on.

Another Monday?

I enjoy the morning. Tee Times at 6am and the quiet the morning brings. Same with Mondays. A fresh start to the week. Many have the Garfield syndrome.

If you dislike what you do so much that you cant stand Monday, then get out! I can't imagine doing something for 30 years and dreading every Monday. Or for that matter every work day. Almost everyone that I have seen make a change in jobs (Either by their decision or others) has landed in a better, happier place.)

It is all attitude and what you make with the tools you are given. Have you maximized your space?

Spend most of the weekend relaxing and catching up.

Like always, when I am gone all the PC and server stuff at home decides to break. Sure it will run for months when I am home. Then problems when I am gone.

Had another drive fail on the home server. Maybe it is me buying the cheap drives. I was using USB drives and had about 3 of them fail. So I thought I had a heat problem. I then installed internal SATA drives. They have been working for a while. Yet I had my first fail.

No lost files. I had duplication running where it copies files to multiple drives just in case a drive fails like it did. I did lose most of the backups on the laptops I have. So I had to remove the defective drive, rebuild the files and then start the backups. I am still working on that.

I have also been working on posting my video's to www.youtube.com/sriat1 and pictures to the home server. Feel free to visit http://riatfamily.homeserver.com to see the pictures from my recent trip.

Just about done with all my work on getting caught up.

Did have a chance to get the Corvette out a little Sat. It had been several weeks since I have had that chance. I am still impressed with the power. Nothing like a little burning rubber smell to relax you. I will finish up the weekend with a round of golf with Bill.

This week is one of those with few appointments however I have lots to get done. Submitting expenses, working on some processes and preparing for the annual vendor meeting. Does not seem like much yet it never fails that you go to work at 7 and the next thing you know it is after 5.