The Extraordinarily Ordinary » winning http://www.theextraordinarilyordinary.com Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:38:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How to win at traveling: accommodations edition http://www.theextraordinarilyordinary.com/2011/01/25/how-to-win-at-traveling-accommodations-edition/ http://www.theextraordinarilyordinary.com/2011/01/25/how-to-win-at-traveling-accommodations-edition/#comments Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:11:57 +0000 jtal http://www.theextraordinarilyordinary.com/?p=330 I like to think I’m pretty good at planning trips. Spreadsheets, Google maps, itineraries, PowerPoints–you name it, I’m all over it. I mean, I successfully coordinated 14 people into a foreign country and we only lost one. So…that’s a pretty good success rate.

People tend to marvel with gaping maws at my ability to choose [...]]]> http://www.theextraordinarilyordinary.com/2011/01/25/how-to-win-at-traveling-accommodations-edition/feed/ 2 “The Argumentalist” Wednesdays at 9/8 Central on CBS http://www.theextraordinarilyordinary.com/2009/12/30/the-argumentalist-wednesdays-at-98-central-on-cbs/ http://www.theextraordinarilyordinary.com/2009/12/30/the-argumentalist-wednesdays-at-98-central-on-cbs/#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:09:11 +0000 jtal http://www.theextraordinarilyordinary.com/?p=62 For years I thought I was a most excellent argumentalist. I always won, thanks to my infallible logic and the coolly systematic way in which I broke down my opponent’s defense. However, by some odd coincidence, two different roommates informed me that I was not so much an extremely persuasive debater, but that I was [...]]]> http://www.theextraordinarilyordinary.com/2009/12/30/the-argumentalist-wednesdays-at-98-central-on-cbs/feed/ 0