I took an early morning flight to Austin this morning to attend a strategic planning meeting of the Texas Association of Mediators. I'm membership director and webmaster for this group and really enjoy it, although it's a lot of work, especially from November to about this time of year. That's when our annual conference occurs and our over 350 members renew their membership. I usually don't have a spare minute in my spare minutes.

Today, we had a facilitator help us re-vamp our mission statement and identify some strategic objectives to fulfill the mission. It took us about 7 hours, but we have a good roadmap for the days and months and years ahead.

I enjoy flying to Austin and if you haven't been to Love Field lately, you won't believe how classy the place looks, with it's new remote parking garage, the 'skywalk' to the terminal from the new garage and the groovy new signs...updated and so eye-appealing!

Austin's a really cool place to visit, too, but I'm always taken aback by the signs everywhere that promote it to be the 'live music capital of the world.' Now I love Willie, Waylon and the boys as much as the next guy, and I've heard some pretty good music in Austin, but 'live music capital of the world'???? I'm thinking, probably not.

But then again, what would be?