I had dinner with my brother last night… And we could not find a corkscrew anywhere… Hmm… I remembered the saying ‘There is problem no without an engineering solution’. So I found a coach screw, and a spanner and a hammer. Coach screw goes into the cork with the spanner, and then pull it out with the claw of the hammer. It may not have been an elegent solution, but it worked really well.

I also had a phone call from an ex-boss of mine… Arranging a time to catch up with him. He is one of the two coolest bosses that I have ever had… When we were working on a major project we would sometimes come home by taxi – we both lived nearby. Anyway, we would have arguments on the way home – and we would both convince the other of our own points of view at the same time. That is we both cinvinved each other to swap our views.

But the coolest thing was once when I was organising a private consultancy trip to the USA. I was on the phone to the USA at 9AM on a Thursday morning… And I asked them to hold on a sec whilst I put my hand over the microphone on the phone, and asked him ‘Do we have much on next week. Any problem with me taking the week off as rosters?’. His response as basically ‘No Problem’. It was exactly what I was after… And so about 48 hours later I was on my way to the USA. A month later I did a similar thing, but this time I have him a couple of weeks notice to take two weeks off as annual leave.