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We were discussing the training we’re putting together for tomorrow night, and I was on the call to provide some technical insight as to what to expect during the training, when the conversation abruptly turned to "Cerveza Preferencias".

I never heard a consensus on the actual question, but what was made abundantly clear was that the guy running the show would bring a Keg of beer.

40 people.  2 hours of training.   1 Keg of beer.

While interesting, that in itself isn’t the funny part.

The funny part was when some guy on their team mentioned that the venue for this training, he was pretty sure, wouldn’t allow them to bring in Cerveza’s.

At which point, this is actually what he said…

"DAMMIT, I KNOW we’re not allowed to bring in anything, so if we’re not allowed to bring in ANYTHING, we may as well bring in a DAMN KEG."

…and no one could find a way to argue with that logic.

“I’m finding it increasingly difficult to cater to your strange needs…”

– My clients project manager, speaking to me as we stood in line for security at their Brazilian office, obviously failing to realize that we all deal with different cultures in different ways and that. . .  some may be more eccentric than others.

So, you ask.   What the hell did Rand Damn Nix DO in 2007?  It certainly wasn’t blogging, now was it?

No, it was not.

2007 definitely had some challenges, but I’d have to say, looking back on it, it’s got to have been the best Rand Year in recent history.

NOTABLES:

AA Miles:  77,000

Countries:   7

Passports:  2

Lines of Code:   Give me a break…

Broken Bones:   1 or 5, but all in the hand.

Number of Hotels kicked out of:  1

Number of Hotels that should have kicked me out:   2

Number of lunches that consisted of rice, beans and mystery meat:  7,234

Number of weeks spent out of the country:   Far more than in.

So that’s pretty much what’s kept me busy and not blogging.   I really do intend to do better this year, but last year, seriously, I wound up on the back foot trying to make good on a million dollar promise I made counting on some support I didn’t get.   The fact that I did make good on the promise despite being behind from the start and without the support I was counting on made me realize how important it is to not go around making promises.   ;-)  

What I can tell you is that, and this is important, from the deserted backwaters of the Amazon, to trendy restaurants in England and all the way to the smoke filled Cafe’s in Paris…   and you may not believe me. . . . but I’ve got plenty of photos to prove it. . .

. . .  the buttcrack is back.   Seriously, if you’re not showing some crack, you just lost your relevance in the new world.  Once the only identifying characteristic of the average plumber –  today, however, in the 21’st century, we still don’t have our flying cars, granted… but we’ve got buttcrack.   Miles of it.

So, for 2007, we can sum it up with that:  The Crack is Back, Jack.