Bugs,
You’re right – it was a little caustic. I was trying to amplify what I think is the no-brainer choice to go back to law school. I speak from experience wrt going back to schol mid-career to launch a new career. Not only was it monetarily rewarding, but to be re-awakened intellectually and challenged harder than I ever was before was completely revitalizing. I came out of it a changed man.

I’d love to move back to SoCal. LA and OC were all I knew before I moved to New England a few years back. I haven’t found the kind of jobs available back home that I have in other areas as I have articulated ad nauseaum. I might have to wait until some small firm wants me as CEO to come home, but I’ve made my bed, and I sleep fine in it. On the jobs/investment note, did anyone happen to catch the article in the NY Times last Sunday on why Silicon Valley continues to spawn more new and re-born companies than any other place in the world? The net message was that the best and brightest seek out the best and brightest. Kind oflike going to get an advanced degree.

For the record, I’ve never owned a boogie board. Many shortboards, one longboard and a pair of Churchills for body surfing, but never a sponge.

I know some wildly successful folks that are huge Tony Robbins fans. The whole concept of mind control is very interesting, and I use many of the tactics in negotiations, but I haven’t drunk enough of the Kool-Aid to spring for the seminar and walk on hot coals. I may sometime soon!