Welcome to "the engines of my love," a regular review
of why I love you, Martha Ellyn Sharp Nelson, and no
other woman.
I love you because you have always been a motivation for me to
succeed in the business world. During one of the breaks at PAIRS on
Monday evening, Rick Zimmerman started to ask me about my work. He
is the President of Texas Independent Company, a group of 30 former
Tenneco employees who have been exploring onshore Louisiana, Texas,
and New Mexico for 10 years now. I decided the best way to introduce
him to what I am doing was to take him on a field trip to the VETL.
He asked me to call him Tuesday morning and set up an appointment,
I did, and we agreed to meet on Wednesday morning before I had jury
duty. I anticipated another semi-interested party.
Tuesday afternoon I went to Interactive Interpretation & Training
for meetings with the French company Total about a long-term lease of
one of my Landmark licenses. It was so typical of my meetings with
the French. Lots of interest, lots of talk, and then, well, we will
decide in a couple of weeks. I do not expect anything to come from this
meeting. I am becoming pretty calloused towards business promise.
Wednesday morning I got a suprise call from Coral Rice at The Covey
Leadership Center. She actually lives and works for Covey in St. Louis.
She was so excited about the report we prepared for Covey, obviously
wanted it to be well received, and had three or four pages of corrections
and spelling mistakes needing to be fixed before presentation to her
management. Her enthusiasm was contagious. It was so completely
opposite of the meeting with the French on Tuesday afternoon.
Wednesday at 10:30 AM I picked up Rick Zimmerman and his geophysicist
Stephen Alvarez-Wiemann. In the next 1 1/2 hours I introducted them
to Virtual Reality, Knowledge Backbones, hypertext documentation,
infinite grids, color transversing of data bases, 3-D seismic acquisition
technologies, etc. It was truly fun to sense their enthusiasm. On the
chair they both caught the idea of flying through reservoirs. In the
CAVE they were both seeing how this technology could help them solve
significant technical problems. When shown the Knowledge Backbone or
The Activity Model of the Ideal Oil & Gas Company, they both saw it as
a significant improvement over their existing checklist. I had to leave
to go to jury duty, but Rick asked me to call him and come over to visit
if I was not selected.
It turns out jury duty was for Harris County and not the District
Court. I was not selected, but this presents a real problem relative
to the 23rd, which is the day I am suspose to be on a District Court
jury. The problem is I have purchased a ticket to go back to Utah
to help Sara clean out Mom and Dad's house so it can be rented. Oh well!
I was #32 in a panel of 36 and was not selected. The case should not have
been in court. It was about a brick layer who was suing the company
he was subcontracted to because of an accident on the job. As I read
my words it is good I was not asked to be an impartial judge.
Anyway,
I went Texas Independent's office and had an interesting meeting with
Rick and several of his technical folks. He wants some help, and I am
uniquely qualified to provide it. I'm pretty sure something will come
from the discussions. I put together a spread-sheet that described
how Sam LeRoy, Bill Bavinger, and I could generate 1,000 prospects for
Texas Independent for $1 million in six to twelve months. If you are
interested it is at http://www.walden3d.com/w3d/operations/gifs/prospects.gif
and the username is w3d_admin and the password is geotech96. It would
be nice to have something happen here, but I am not counting on it.
It feels good to write to you about my business activities. Kind of like
a peacock strutting his stuff. Guess it is another way of saying how much
I love you.
I'm interested in sharing why I love you. I know how important
the written word is to you, and if you ever feel neglected,
ignored, or unloved, and would like an up-to-date bound copy of
these lovelets or any subset of these lovelets for any purpose
you might have come to mind, please tell me or e-mail your request
to rnelson@walden3d.com with the request 'lovelet update.'
With all my love,
Roice