This picture wil probably come as a surprise to those that don't know me VERY well, rode horses competitively in jumping and cross country throughout my teens, but haven't sat astride a horse in over 20 years. A friend has been bugging me to come out to VA and go riding for a while, and despite how my last ride ended it began to appeal. So off to Catlett, and this is America, beautiful, if lazy horse, and the first time I've seen a horse with blue eyes. Also the location was away from prying eyes and people's knowledge that if I had forgotten how to ride and fell off, no one was any the wiser ;-). Amazing how quickly it came back.

The last week of work has been busy, mainly detail oriented, in dotting 'i's and crossing t's on he premium client business, in addition to implementing processes to make us more efficient as we are growing, an interesting mental challenge, but I'm now in full sales mode, and have to overcome feeling aggravated at it taking time away from sales work.

Its interesting reflecting a little on Friday with T how much we have changed as a company in the last 7 weeks, from where some of the partners we now view as not being suitable due to their size and client reach were the best thing since sliced bread a month ago. A more aggressive pursuit of larger agencies, and targeting designers of end clients that we want to work with has paid off greatly and our reach and appeal has grown through that.

A last thought for today, given that I'm the last person who could be thought of as a metrosexual, given that I'm truly happiest when out running drenched in sweat, or running just to not freeze, same on a bike, only happy in hills on a road bike, and challenging myself on a mountain..the worse the conditions, the happier I am. Yet, I look around my bathroom this morning, and there's a scrubbing soap, exfoliating face wash, 5 blade powered razor, with matching shaving soap, post shave moisturizing cream and balm, and gosh darn it, a $7 shampoo !!!. These things sneak up on you.