Hither N' Thither N' Yon

I'm getting ready this morning for my two week junket down in Columbia, SC, courtesy of Father Justice. This means scrambling about to various offices to pick up cellphones, Blackberries, laptops and whatnot, together with sorting out which files I'm going to need to take with me. (I'll be down there for training, but I'm working a couple of cases that can't lie doggo for that long.)

Two nice things about this trip as opposed to some of the others I've taken recently are 1) that I can drive instead of fly and 2) that I'll have Internet access the whole time.

One bad thing about this trip is that I'm racking up huge amounts of debt on my Family Visa Card for ditching the Missus and the Llama-ettes this long. The interest payments alone are gonna kill me.

I'll be taking part in a civil trial advocacy refresher program which, given the years of practice I've spent doing regulatory and contractual work, is just what the Llama ordered. There's a lot of courtroom performance analysis involved - I'll be sure to pass on to you all the funny things the trainers have to say about my histrionics. I'm also going to see if I can work the words "orgle" and "yip" into my performances. After all, isn't Rule One of successful presentation to be yourself?