“Is that daddy?”

Now, for the latest installment in our “Are you working too much?” series. Last Wednesday, while discussing Quietly Working strategy at the Ruby’s in Newport Beach, we were seated next to one of the Newport wives and her two children. While waiting for Tim to retrieve his cell phone from his car, I took out my Palm Pilot to make some schedule changes. The three-year-old boy at the table next to us asked his mom what I was doing. She told the boy that I was using a Palm Pilot like Daddy. The boy then asked, “Is that Daddy?” I thought to myself, is someone’s daddy’s Palm Pilot so full of appointments and long hours that his three-year-old son doesn’t even know what he looks like from five feet away? Don’t get me wrong, we work 80 hour weeks, but our loved ones can still pick us out in a restaurant.