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Today I opened another business venture, this time to help businesses make their websites work better. "Work better" covers a lot of ground, sure. But after toying with the idea for over a year it seems like a good time to put my technical knowledge of search engine marketing and conversion to good use. The final push was when ...

I'm a sentimental sonuvabitch, and love listening to late fifties/early sixties music, pretending it was 1962 and wondering why there aren't any DJ's like Wolfman Jack any more. So, tonight the setting was perfect. All it needed was Tara sitting next to me and it would have been Died-And-Gone-To-Heaven perfect. I drove down to ...

A week later, I'm sitting at a different desk now, in my own 1 bedroom apartment. Bizarrely, after driving all over the surrounding cities looking at cheap apartments I ended up 100 yards from my hotel. The first week of work was the same as any first week of work - didnt get anything concrete done except install and configure software and ...

I'm here, sitting in my room on Sherman and DeSoto. As the other Arquette sister says in Pulp Fiction, this is trippy. The drive was unreal. It took, as the maps said it would, 3 days of hard driving. Day 1 I didn't leave until 9:30, so didn't quite make it to Dallas, I was about 100 miles short. It's amazing how much slower you ...

A day in Monterey and Carmel today. This morning we went whale watching and got close to a couple of 80ft blue whales and some humpack whales. Pretty cool and the weather was perfect - calm and 75f.   We then drove 17 mile drive to Carmel via Pebble Beach and wandered around before returning to Monterey for a walk to Hula's Island Grill ...

Really it's Day 16 to me, but strictly speaking it is after midnight, so very early on the 27th. I'm in the air now, flying with Tara on our 5 day vacation to California. The last couple of days have been a whirlwind of working mornings for StomperNet as they prepare for the latest big launch on 9/9/9, and the afternoons/evenings ...

The in-laws arrived for a 4 week stay on Thursday, Friday was heads down for a big (but internal) launch at StomperNet and Saturday was Tara's 40th birthday! The worlds largest dumpster (30 yards/5 tons) was also delivered in the morning as a special treat but I think the 2 dozen roses made up for it. Tara's Father Alan and I spent most of ...

Ok, that's done. Booked. One less (large and looming) thing to think about. Priceline did the deed at about 2/3 price of the public rate.  

I ache this morning. Over the weekend I worked 20 hours in our bathroom, taking out everything - a wall, all sheetrock, a tiled shower, cabinets, sinks, mirrors and lights. Then I did some studwork, re-wired the lights and outlets and got it ready for the sheetrock guys this morning. I must have moved half a ton of rubble from that ...

"Let's go to lunch", Tara says, "and we'll pop into Lowes and pick up a few things." Quizno's was good, then came Lowes. We need some more cement board for the shower and floor in master bathroom, and we need to "order the carpet". Ok. Order the carpet. If you hear those words, make an excuse ...