Trippy

Heading out to Calgary later this morning for the CIRA board meetings that are being held tomorrow and Tuesday. As it turns out, even though I came in fourth in a run-off for three seats that left me next in line for a seat should someone resign from the sitting board. Well guess what, that's exactly what happened. I got the news a few weeks back, but I haven't said anything about it mainly because I didn't want to scoop CIRA. Well, seeing that they've got a copy of my ugly mug up on their website, and a bio to match, I'm guessing that its okay to start talking about my new involvement with CIRA.

There are two meetings this week - a board of directors meeting tomorrow, and an Open Forum on Tuesday. Most of my time today will be spent reviewing the hundreds of pages of briefings and director's guidelines that showed up on my desk and in my inbox this week. There will be no time for pulp fiction during the plane trip today - I've glanced at some of these materials already and definitely want to get through as much as possible before I get to the meeting tomorrow. Some of the materials are quite interesting and I've already started my laundry list of questions.

My schedule is quite jammed - I don't think there will be much time for socializing outside of the official itinerary. I've got a briefing regarding my new responsibilities this evening, meetings *all* day tomorrow and into the evening and then the Open Forum on Tuesday morning. My flight leaves Calgary at 4:30 on Tuesday afternoon, which means I'll be lucky to get in a lunch after the meeting before I have to fly out.

I'm pretty stoked about the whole thing. This is definitely a new set of experiences waiting for me. Its especially nice that this is all happening here at home.

While you're waiting for some more from me, check out this set of comments regarding Plaxo in which Stacy Martin, their chief privacy officer, drops in for a chat.