Today, two “business” meetings. The first with an Australian woman; the second with an Aussie man. Two people from the same country but how different can you get?

Tracey and I are both members of the same DigitalEve SIG. In fact, we are the only members. We had hoped some others would join us but not today. So we sat, enjoyed cake and coffee and talked about our businesses. How can we improve what we’re doing and how can we help one another? In this meeting, support was the name of the game.

Meeting number two was ostensibly a social dinner. But talk turned to work and from there, it was a game of Let’s Guess the Motives Behind this Conversation. Why was I being buttered up? Why did certain topics come up? What was I giving away? “You can only go so far with questioning everything the guy says,” Tod commented later. So true. It was a stimulating conversation with a million different (possible) interpretations. Which one is correct remains to be seen.

So the moral of the story. Don’t judge a book by its passport.