Wednesday, January 26, 2024

On Budgets and Opportunity

I'm really enjoying sunny San Diego, my goodness please Lord let me do this every year in January. When I flew out of Albany, NY on Sunday afternoon the temperature was 4 degrees. When I landed in Vegas for the 'torturous two-hour layover in which I won and lost 50 bucks' the temperature in Albany was -7. This week is sunny and 75 every day I am here. That paragraph was written with violins and heavenly music playing in my head...

Anyway. I'll be blogging over at USNI about WEST 2011 for those who want to follow my thoughts. The first panel yesterday was easily the highlight of my day. I had previously met Ronald O'Rourke and Victor Addison, and have always wanted to meet Mark Hagerott and Robbie Harris. For the record, Captain Munsch was really good too. My initial thoughts on their discussion is here, and I'll be pushing to get a video online - it really was a good discussion with some innovative thinking as you might expect from such an all-star group. I know I'm going to be thinking about a lot of things said by those folks awhile, so there will be more writing over time.

Today is Air/Sea Battle and Bob Work's speech, followed by some time hanging out with sailors - which I always look forward to. For those of you who are attending, I usually go to the USNI area between sessions so look for me there, or find Mary because she knows all.

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