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at times will require complacency. so. we can hope as far as we'd like. and i'd like for things to sort of sail. i'm sort of blessed [and cursed] w/ an observant and accepting demeanor to last through different cricks and adjustments in plans and streams as long as there's an equally fast and/or sure alternate stream. but things seem directed at least. i'll take that. nothing feels difficult. flying over cleveland now. home in an hour. something like that. the best way to describe what vegas really ended up being is almost a perfect example and framing of how a morale and direct battle cry can be so well crafted and have an almost perfect pitch and sense of spontaneity to be genuine get taken an incredibly different and deaf way when the too populous and too many expect not only the people in charge to get it right, but also to do the rest of the work for them. retail becomes a condition of them. you're so used to a company getting it wrong that by the time they get it to the point where you sense it to be right, you're waiting for the reveal that they're about to change it in the very same breath in which they've solved it. but outside of that, the unity and unification that the conference brought for our team of 12 was pretty massive, and adds a sense of confidence in and of itself. so it yielded at least that result. travel journal stuff: we stayed at the palazzo. bedrooms were gorgeous as was the hotel. but the casino portion of it was incredibly stale. the connected tower, the venetian seemed to have a "cheaper" price range, but that allowed for more human company, all completely wild and flawed and numerous. we ate at grand lux cafe twice which was excellent, high priced (to scale) and accessible. we also ate a place called simply i <3 burgers