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Originally Posted by soundman98
my excuse is that i've been inside all day today 
just feeling wordy this weekend. you should've seen the 5 page email i sent my boss about my ideas for the future of the company, "just a couple thoughts"... |
Brings to mind the story of when I worked for IITRI (Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute) in Chicago. My boss was a fellow named Dr Rich Matalas, who was an ex MIT professor, and the senior VP of Research at IITRI. I would fly up to Chicago on Monday, stay in a hotel, eat at fancy restaurants and fly back to St Louis on Friday (when I wasn't flying all over the US and Europe).
With nothing else to do on the weekday evenings, I would make an evening out of dining out at fine restaurants. After my first martini I would start making notes on a napkin as to how to expand IITRI's scope of business and thus profits. After the second martini I would order my supper and continue to make notes. I would have a third martini and complete my note taking.
I related this procedure to Dr Matalas. One morning during one of my private meetings with him, I was going down the list of ideas when he stopped me and stated that my last two ideas must have come to me after my
third double martini -
