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If that doesn’t sound normal, it’s not. Before they left for Nevada, he and our daughter dropped off our 19-month-old granddaughter Liah, whom we babysat until their return on Sunday night.

I raised three children and honestly don’t recall them being as difficult as Liah. Every routine Eileen and I have was put on hold to suit Liah. She wakes up two to three times each night, eats on the run, AND wants what she wants when she wants it. Saying no to her is not an option unless you love tantrums. Everything in our house was an object for her to discover, with little concern for spills, drops, or danger. If she was inside, she wanted to play outside. If she was outside, she wanted to go inside.

Lest this sounds like complaining, she has a wonderful laugh and her contagious smile could melt the toughest heart. We had an exhausting but wonderful weekend and will gladly do it again and again. And now our life has returned to a wonderfully awesome NORMAL.

I don’t want to express too much sympathy for banks, but they were completely unprepared for this. The same departments that traditionally handled foreclosures also handled loan mitigation, as loan modification is called in the industry. Load modification requires similar documents that an original loan does, such as income statements and credit statements, but also hardship letters. Homeowners would send these documents in, and they would disappear into a black hole. . .

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But I found the one-hour presentation interesting. I learned Kawasaki’s perspective about how simple it is to build a business today. He promotes a philosophy of “do it, don’t talk about it.” His work ethic is such that 250,000 people actively follow him on Twitter, which he claims to be the best generator of business traffic if used properly and honestly.

I highly recommend this interview with Kawasaki: Guy Kawasaki - Entrepreneurship 2.0. Along with his humor, it’s filled with straight talk and some good business building advice.