Tea Drinker in a Coffee Word

Some of you may have noticed that I fell into a pretty deep blogging slump. I could list a host of reasons why, but the truth is I started finding it hard to think of “CAE” things to write about.

I really don’t deal with a lot of the issues I learned about when studying for the exam on a day-to-day basis. The closest I got was when I was asked about reserves and how much I think we should have. My next experience will be working with auditors later this month (I am actually looking forward to it because it’s new to me. Then again, I kind of enjoy putting my federal taxes together too.)

And that brings me to this blog entry. My blogging problem has been my narrow scope: CAE. So I expanded it. Instead of “musings of a new CAE” the subtitle and focus is “a tea drinker in a coffee world.”

What does that mean? Put simply, I tend to think and act a little different from the mainstream—but only slightly so (such as preferring tea in a business culture that bows to the cult of coffee). I tend to be just a little out of step and I am going to share that. This different outlook on things allows me to think outside the box and brainstorm really easily. It gives me an outsider’s perspective—but not so much so that I can’t blend in and go back to thinking “in the box” if needed. The downside is, sometimes I can come up with too many ideas (and it can be hard for me to rein them in).

So this blog won’t simple be on CAE information, it will be on my general observations and unbridled ideas. Most will be on associations and association management, but I will talk about other (related) things as well.  Some of my ideas will be “off the wall” by conventional standards and most will be just a little different than the norm. But that’s what you get from a tea drinker.

So for my first new topic: Wikipedia Smickapedia.

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