Catching Up
Ok, friends and family. I know I've been a bit of hermit for a while, and I've hardly posted anything, so this is what's been going on in my life for the past couple of months.
Work is busy. I've been to New Hampshire and New York in the last 2 months, leaving Nyssa and Nicki for a few days at a time. New Hampshire was cold, and it looked a lot like an L.L. Bean catalog. I did some work there with WMI, one of our clients. They're launching a green social network called Greenopolis, and Loyalty Lab is powering some of the back end computing platform for it.
New York was a lot more fun, because I got to stay near Times Square, at the Paramount Hotel. I got to dine at a couple of good restaurants: Blue Fin at the W hotel and Porter House at the Time Warner Building. Oh yeah, I also spent time with a couple of clients -- 1800Flowers and Jones Apparel Group.
Tomorrow, we have our user summit/conference, and I'm giving a brief presentation on some of our product's capabilities. It's been a while since I've presented to a group of people face-to-face. Most of my presentations are done over a GoToMeeting session. There are also some crazy-large clients that we're trying to go after. You'll hear about some of them soon, but it's shown how far along we've come as a company.
In my personal life, things are still busy, but having a 6 month old can do that to you. Yes, Nyssa is 6 months old! We bought her a jumpy chair, and she's an absolute maniac on it. We also had her baptized last month. Her sleep pattern has been a bit irregular, so I've not personally slept well either. I also haven't been working out as often, but I've signed up to do the Wharf-to-Wharf in July, a 10K from Santa Cruz to Capitola. I need to start getting back in shape. I've done this run almost every year since 1995. I missed last year because I had my appendix taken out.
Lots of stuff going on around the house and neighborhood. We just had our house painted, and we need to put a new roof on. We also had some work done inside the house - improvements to Nyssa's room, some bathroom work, and some new door handles. Nicki hired someone to do it, because I never seem to have the time.
In our neighborhood, a bunch of us (well, more Nicki than me) are fighting to stop a low income housing project from being put in. I'm for low income housing, but they're making it too dense in an area that has bad traffic problems already.
I played in a golf tournament hosted by my brother this past weekend. He and his college buddies host 4 tournaments a year, and the course is selected by the previous year's winner. Lucky Engel, he won last year. He smartly decided to host it at the Callipe Preserve Golf Club in Pleasanton, where it was played the previous year. It is an absolutely gorgeous course, with amazing views, and a very challenging layout. I shot a 108, but I played many of the holes very well, including some pars and bogie holes. My goal for next year is to shoot 100 or less.
Cheers!
Work is busy. I've been to New Hampshire and New York in the last 2 months, leaving Nyssa and Nicki for a few days at a time. New Hampshire was cold, and it looked a lot like an L.L. Bean catalog. I did some work there with WMI, one of our clients. They're launching a green social network called Greenopolis, and Loyalty Lab is powering some of the back end computing platform for it.
New York was a lot more fun, because I got to stay near Times Square, at the Paramount Hotel. I got to dine at a couple of good restaurants: Blue Fin at the W hotel and Porter House at the Time Warner Building. Oh yeah, I also spent time with a couple of clients -- 1800Flowers and Jones Apparel Group.
Tomorrow, we have our user summit/conference, and I'm giving a brief presentation on some of our product's capabilities. It's been a while since I've presented to a group of people face-to-face. Most of my presentations are done over a GoToMeeting session. There are also some crazy-large clients that we're trying to go after. You'll hear about some of them soon, but it's shown how far along we've come as a company.
In my personal life, things are still busy, but having a 6 month old can do that to you. Yes, Nyssa is 6 months old! We bought her a jumpy chair, and she's an absolute maniac on it. We also had her baptized last month. Her sleep pattern has been a bit irregular, so I've not personally slept well either. I also haven't been working out as often, but I've signed up to do the Wharf-to-Wharf in July, a 10K from Santa Cruz to Capitola. I need to start getting back in shape. I've done this run almost every year since 1995. I missed last year because I had my appendix taken out.
Lots of stuff going on around the house and neighborhood. We just had our house painted, and we need to put a new roof on. We also had some work done inside the house - improvements to Nyssa's room, some bathroom work, and some new door handles. Nicki hired someone to do it, because I never seem to have the time.
In our neighborhood, a bunch of us (well, more Nicki than me) are fighting to stop a low income housing project from being put in. I'm for low income housing, but they're making it too dense in an area that has bad traffic problems already.
I played in a golf tournament hosted by my brother this past weekend. He and his college buddies host 4 tournaments a year, and the course is selected by the previous year's winner. Lucky Engel, he won last year. He smartly decided to host it at the Callipe Preserve Golf Club in Pleasanton, where it was played the previous year. It is an absolutely gorgeous course, with amazing views, and a very challenging layout. I shot a 108, but I played many of the holes very well, including some pars and bogie holes. My goal for next year is to shoot 100 or less.
Cheers!
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