A Winter/Spring Update
Sorry for the long hiatus - crazy stuff going on, as usual.
1. Changed jobs already, in Feb.: it’s a long story about a flakey CEO that ended with me quitting amicably and then being fired the next day when I outlined a few days I needed off to interview. I already had a new job lined up, but it would have been helpful to coast for the next two months. The new gig features a shiny new “officer” title (CTO) but the reality is I have fewer people working for me now than I have in the last six years. This has been good because I’ve had to get my hands dirty with design, programming and support issues that I hadn’t done in quite some time and it’s allowed me to build my own systems as opposed to trying to morph into some other IT org.
2. Late last month Aimee launched Web Search and Rescue, a website marketing and search engine optimization firm. She was intrigued by what I was doing for EA and learned a lot, plus we have the support of a national author on the subject who would like to see us turn the concept into a national franchise. The website is not complete yet - but it’s damn close.
3. Personally this year we’ve done quite a bit: the kitchen was completely renovated and looks damn good, the landscaping is plodding along, we are being considered for the Northeastern Jeep Club, though we’ve booked a Jeep Jamboree to Killington VT for next month on our own. We already have our tickets to see the Police when they hit east Hartford in July. Two Saturday’s ago we both met the Edge at a charity auction at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square (I bought a cool B&W photo of Mike Ness from Social D by a Rolling Stone photographer as well). In March we were deemed worthy for front row seats to Letterman at the Ed Sullivan Theater - when Will Ferrell was the guest. Aimee took a trip to the Florida Keys with her best friend from high school last month. We’ve joined the Sunday Cinema Club down in Madison CT which has been fun and educational, despite the fact that you have no idea what movie you’ll be seeing until you show up. We’ve made a few friends and been to lots of restaurants and pubs, especially along the sound and in the city of New Haven.
This summer we’re looking forward to some long weekends at the Cape and Newport RI. Friends and family are scheduled to come out to see us every month so far with the exception of September. We are going to Myrtle Beach with some WI friends in August. Aimee is doing some heavy research on Hawaii since we would like to spend a week or 10 days there in October for our 10th. November will find us back in the Midwest to give thanks to our friends and families for not disowning us for moving so far away.
I’ve been trying to convince Aimee that we need to do a weekly 80s radio show or podcast, but she’s not budging. I’d like to write more and might renovate Music DVD Geek at some point very soon, purely as a music DVD review blog with images and sound samples. I can’t believe what’s happening to online radio these days. It’s beyond sad, its criminal and it only continues to hurt music artists by reducing the number of music buying/tour attending fans in the world.
More later - hopefully.
-pjc
PS: let us know how you’re doing: patrick@websearchandrescue.com
PSS: I recently finished a new Spring/Summer mix CD called “Crazy Fools”. If you’d like a copy for your travels, send your mailing addy to the email above.