Andrew Kester, PE wrote:
Harold,
I am proposing two options for your consulting services with my company, and I am the first to ask so I get you:
1) Keg at my office on monday morning, I will pick up your flight to Orlando, no drinks until noon. Coffee and donuts, all you can handle.
2) Beer of the month club sent to your house, unlimited annoying emails and phone calls asking you engineering questions
I recommend that he accept Option (2) ONLY if 1/3 of the phone calls and fully half of the emails are about politics or religion instead of engineering.