April 26, 2005

• Ok, a quick update on 2005, somewhat vague, and poorly written due to low levels of sleep:

  In January, I came up to Vancouver BC to visit a friend. Somehow, the company he worked for got the impression that I knew how to code Macromedia Flash MX and told him to have me come in and work on it. I didn’t actually know how to do Flash, but came in and committed to hitting a deadline in early March, and I managed to hit it.

  The original reason I’d come up to visit was that my friend and a couple people he knows were interested in starting a business, and he asked me to join in. We set up an office and have been traveling back and forth between BC and the Twin Cities monthly. To be frank, we’ve been shifting directions and ideas so often that not a lot has gotten done. My perspective a couple weeks ago was that I’ve burned through about as much cash as I can afford to, and I need to pack up my computer and my cat and head back to the states. My friend is no longer working at his job up here, so he was planning to head back to the Twin Cities as well.

  However, in the last week or two, it has begun to look like we have a direction, and one of the guys who has access to a bit more liquid assets than we do is willing to pay both my friend and I a bit as we spin up. So, instead of being home in May, we’re just going to be back for a couple weeks, then heading down to the Caribbean to meet with some other people who we’ll be working with to get the project kicked off.

  So far, the first half of 2005 has not been lucrative, but it has certainly been interesting!

  Non-work related things I want to get to happen this summer: At least one good motorcycle tour. At least one good bicycle tour. Yearly “cabin” trip. Get together with the folks, possibly house boating…. Start regular band practices again and have a couple gigs by late summer. Get something in the garden before its completely too late.

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