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Beaver, Utah

Saturday. Made good our escape from civilization, back to the life of peace and quiet on the road. We checked in with Jeff and Carol and Eddie to see how they were doing. They had been in Arizona all this time and were 50 miles away headed the same direction as us. We met up with them at the KOA in Beaver, Utah.

(You can’t see Jeff and Carol in this picture. I took it after they left.)

We’ve been in the hundreds every day. We haven’t had an overnight low of less than 80 degrees in weeks. We drive for one day and arrive with temperature in the 50s. Cold and drizzly. Lows in the 30s. What a difference a day makes!
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Get away day

    Friday.  The temperature broke out of the hundreds and we had comfortable 85 degree day today.  Good for checking out of the hotel.  Back to the rig.  It’s good to be home.  The Oasis RV Resort was a much nicer place to leave the motorhome than at the parking lot at Circus Circus like we’ve done before.   Move back in.  Ready the rig for our next mission.  One more visit with Jake.  Judy made a home-cooked dinner for us.  Delightful kid.   Earlier this week, while we were outside the Bellagio on The Strip to watch the fountain go off from ground level, we met Captain Jack Sparrow walking by on the sidewalk.  Got an Aye, Captain Graybeard from him.   No new birds to add to the list.  We’re stuck at four.   Tomorrow morning, we’re out of here.    
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It’s ironic

We work so hard all year long to be responsible. It’s a team of ten people doing everything that needs to be done to produce the billings we generate. We’re careful with what we spend. The finances all have to come out right at the end of the year so we can do it all again the next year. Then, when it’s time to go to a conference about the best ways to run a business, we end up in a lavish place like this. The AICPA holds the Practitioners Symposium at excellent conference facilities every year.

It’s funny how it works though. This is the best place to be to do what needs to be done. We have to be this far away from the real world; away from the distractions of work and our normal lives. We get complete separation and we’re free to really think about what we do and how we do it. This may be the most important thing we do for our business all year.

Those were long days at the conference. Ten hours a day of nonstop presentations and interactions. We spent long days working through it all afterward too, but we spent them poolside.


It was a good place to be, and we came away with a good plan. We need to upgrade some equipment and software. We can improve how we monitor the workflow so we always know what’s where. We can better integrate the technical tools we use so it takes less time to use them.We know what to do to improve the process. Now, all we have to do is hang on to the vision and execute. That’s always the biggest challenge, not coming up with a plan when that’s the only thing going on, but executing the plan when everything else is going on all around us.
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Bellagio

  Wednesday.  Next generation accounting firm, A view from the future, Technology futures.  The end of the conference at noon.  Ken and I stay for two more days for our annual meeting.  We talk about what ideas to implement; how we improve, and what direction we point for the future.   Las Vegas bird list…….. no change.