New starts

17Aug10

Four days to go.

It’s obviously a week for new beginnings, so I’m rewriting my speech and finding new ties.

Having carefully prepared my speech I delivered it to MOB and didn’t get the response I was expecting. I’m not sure what response I was expecting, but it wasn’t “It’s a bit dull”. I think MOB had feared that I might insult her, the bride, the guests, the in-laws to be, the population of East Yorkshire… But no, she said that my speech was not objectionable, it just isn’t very interesting – and sounds insincere.

So I’m busy reworking it… well wielding a large cut and paste scalpel excising large parts of it and replacing them with other bits. Although I’m not quite sure how to overcome the sincerity bit – maybe it’s something in the delivery.

She’s made me think though, maybe the talks I give at conferences are also dull. On the other hand I think something like “strategies for adopting cloud computing” would be dull for at least 99% of the wedding guests.

Also starting again is selecting a red tie. MOB was right, the colour of her dress is a difficult shade of red to match, especially if one wishes to spend less than £59.99.

Fortunately it’s quickly obvious if a tie will match of not. So far none of the ties I have in my current wardrobe match it, neither do the two ties I bought last week. They were close, but not good enough, so I’m trying again. I’m being very selective about where I choose to shop for this, I make sure that it will be possible to return the item should it not match the dress.

And now while I’m out shopping for red things I am told I also need to buy a red bra.