$2! I want my $2!

It’s snowing and very cold in Denver today. Perfect day for air travel. So, I arrive a bit early and start scouting for spots in the parking ramp. After a good bit of searching, I throw in the towel and head outside to the economy lot.

Naturally, I have to go through the pay booths so I can exit the covered parking and circle around to go into economy. I roll up to the booth, hand the cashier my ticket and she says: “$2, please.”. Ahem. What? $2 to look? How long have I been in there? “11 minutes.” And how long am I allowed? “!0 minutes.” You must be kidding. I pay the toll to the troll (the only other option being to drive through the gate Duke Boys-style) and exit.

Now, I understand why you’d have a 10 minute policy, but on a day like today when the ramp will be packed and there will be a lot of travelers searching with no success, you’d think DIA would flex a little.  Good gravy.  It’s only $2, but still.

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It’s been well over 3 years since I joined LinkedIn and I finally reached that magical mark where my profile says “500+ connections”.  From now on, people will just have to just guess about the sheer massivicity of my network since LinkedIn will no longer communicate to the public with any specificity about how many connections I have (currently 507, but who’s counting).  I’m not going to blather on about what a great thing LinkedIn is, etc, etc, since everyone knows what it is / does, but i do find myself on the site at least once a week looking for someone or seeking a connection.

But truth be known, there are many, many contacts on my list that I don’t speak with very often (some never), but it’s surprising how many I bump into at alumni happy hours, soccer games and other accidental encounters around town.  The foundation of my network remains concentrated in Level 3 folks, many of whom are still there or went to work at other companies around Denver, so the odds are good for a chance encounter.

A thanks to one of my Point B colleagues, Jason Hayes, for finally putting me over the mark.