Yesterday was my fourth week speaking consecutively for a month straight. These past weeks have been the most grueling while trying to balance my daily work efforts as a consultant, creating new presentation slides and demos while also trying to balance my family life. There have been many nights of staying up late, learning new things and figuring out ways to effectively present on them. Here is a rundown of the past four weeks and where I have been presenting. Annually I do a lot of Florida code camp presentations but for the end of April into May, I wanted to focus strictly on user groups and special interest groups (SIG). I really did not plan to have all of my presentations run consecutively, however it just seemed to happen that way. I actually had to cancel speaking at the Jax SQL Saturday since I was doing a ton of travelling with work and could not balance the two. April 24, 2008 I had the opportunity to speak in Tallahassee, Fl., at an Architect SIG that had just started up. I did my presentation on gathering and modeling requirements. I was the second speaker after the previous month of Jeff Barnes (MS) priming them up for me. Now I run the Arch SIG in Jax and when I saw around 30+ attendees in Tally I was shocked. I started soul searching trying to figure out what I could do to draw that many to our arch SIG meetings. I mean, these guys were hungry! The next week, May 1, 2008, I headed back to Tallahassee, Fl. to speak again, except this time it was at the Capital
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