Day one of our legal conference and we all had to hit the ground running. Most of us from the US were hit with jet lag. Mind you, after the dinner event last night, I was up half the night editing the proxy statement with Chanda, my colleague from Duluth, GA. We went to bed around 2 a.m. local time and had to be downstairs for breakfast and at our first event at 8 a.m. We had to be bright eye and bushy tail and I was feeling it.Powerpoint slides, guest speakers and then we managed to run out of the conference for a tour of the ATM plant that we operate in Budapest. I must say, I was very impressed. In fact, I even offered to stay behind in Budapest and learn to build the ATM's. I watched the workers clock out at 2:30 p.m. on the dot and the shift changed. WOW. They don't leave with anything to work on at home. That's actually not a bad deal. I have been working 17 hour days due to the nature of the time of the year for me. This is proxy season. I have a filing that is due with the Securities Exchange Commission in less than 10 days and I have been working on this document since mid-December. I have been living and breathing this proxy statement and the filing couldn't come soon enough for me.
After our tour of the plant, we were scheduled to be on the dinner cruise and head down the Danube River. It was nice to see the town at night lit up and get a bit of information about the sights around us. The history lesson was really great too since I didn't really have a chance to read up on Budapest. We had authenthic Hungarian food and it was nice to sit and get to know our colleagues from the different offices. It was a shame that we didn't do the cruise during the day but despite the zaniness today, it was nice to be able to bond with my colleagues.
