week two...

this is fun.  i can't say it's exactly what i expected from joining a start-up, but it's pretty close.  we're in a fun office environment, a fun 'hood, and the three of us (matt, steve, me) seem to be laughing and telling ridiculous jokes all day long.  

it's an odd situation i guess, as we're not trying to find start-up money (we've got that), and we're not trying to find clients (they can't wait to get started with us).  we just have to productize and test our way into a working (and profitable) model.  

so, we've got clients waiting, and we know what we want to do. it's a question of how fast we can build it...  

it's the opposite of  'field of dreams' i suppose...  they've come, and we need to build it!

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day four means pizza...

matt is back in the office after three days of the flu, so we went to patsy's pizza for lunch (what better way is there to cure the flu?).  

i imagine patsy's will be in the weekly rotation of lunch spots...  very tasty AND they played the smiths the entire time we were there!

back in the office, we're putting more detail around the four million things we need to do before our first program launch... 

god speed...

it's day three and...

i'm sitting in our new office in union square all alone.  it's peaceful at the moment.  s.s. is traveling, and m.d. is sick for the second straight day, complaining of fever and explosive vomiting.    

this office is very quiet.  puzzling, given we are sharing office space with a multitude of start-ups like ours, albeit with much younger - and certainly hipper - employees.  i would have assumed it would be a bit more rowdy.   

i've just finished up a tech spec for the expert planet website, and in a moment i will begin drafting a list of the four million things we need to do over the next month to get project #1 up and running.  

as i look at the list of seemingly impossible tasks, i can't help but wonder how the three of us will get them all done.  help!

los campesinos...

approximately every 5.7 months i become absolutely obsessed with a new song.  it's typically passed on to me by one of my friends, usually pete amos (from scratcher), cousin nick, or mike moynihan.

this time pete passed on a little chune called "you! me! dancing!", from a band called los campesinos, hailing from cardiff.  i love the guitar at the beginning, and i love the title... vocals may be a bit naff.  i haven't decided yet.  

nevertheless, i can't stop listening to it.  however, in about 1.3 weeks i'll be soooo tired of it (read: peter, bjorn, + john's young folks from a couple years ago). 

video is fun as well.

check it here...

the notorious b.h.o.

big victory for b.h.o. last night.  let's hope he assembles an able team to get us out of this mess...  

thank god we've only 2.5 more months of the horrendous g.w.b. 

bye bye auto...

just turned in my leased car. after two years of complaining about how outrageously expensive it was to keep a car in nyc (monthly payments + gargage + insurance + gas tacked on), the second i handed it in, i started missing it.

how will i get out of the city now? looks like it's back to public transportation...

beer + tequila + rum = 10am wake up...

colleagues took me out for my "leaving drinks" last night, and what started out as a couple beers, turned into a late night bender.


i'm certainly too old to be going out that late and having to come to work the next day. i just can't bounce back like i used to.


for halloween tomorrow, i may go dressed as this guy...

vote...

i voted yesterday by absentee ballot. i'm sad to say it was the first time i've voted in eight years. i unfortunately missed the last one as i was out o' town, and out of pure laziness i didn't bother to get my absentee paperwork in.

could i possibly be responsible for the last four years of george bush? what an awful thought.

anyway, i was very excited to cast my ballot. i walked through driving rain, lightning and thunder to the mailbox on 7th avenue and 34th. on the way there i stepped in a massive puddle. i'll get over it though. at least i'm allowed to vote.

i was really surprised that the act of voting made me feel like i was doing something positive. i hope i'll never miss another election.

my last week at draftfcb...

and i showed up about an hour early to work. strange. shouldn't i be arriving an hour late to work?

my idol, peter gibbons, certainly wouldn't be showing up early on his last week at Initech, would he?

flu weekend?

i've been sitting (and lying) on my couch for the better part of the weekend, watching far too many football games (redskins won!).  yesterday i thought i was getting the  flu, but today i feel much better.  

i always feel guilty for sitting around, especially on weekends.  yesterday it rained almost the entire day, so i guess i couldn't have done much outside anyway.  today was beautiful, so i forced myself to go for a run.  only about two miles, but i'm glad i did it.  i'm starting to feel much better.  now what's my excuse for sitting on the couch, watching the afternoon games?

something new...

i resigned from Draftfcb this week! after far too many years working for big ad agencies, i am joining a new start-up venture, Expert Planet. Perhaps a year from now, when i read this post, i will think back to all the fun, craziness, long hours, excitement, and blood, sweat, and tears that went in to making a cool little company...

stay tuned for more posts.

pdd

p.s. i met this cool chick named rachel recently...