It’s silly to have an update when there’s nothing previous. It’s also silly to have an introduction when nobody is actually listening. I prefer the update. More as a refresher to me, which is really all this is about to begin with. I do stuff, I forget, I repeat, I wish I had better memory.
I write this after a long day of working. On a Sunday. This is fairly natural for me. A great deal of what I did today was prep work leading up to a large business to business food show called Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, CA. I’ll be attending there along with my partners in crime at Chicago Vegan Foods. While I’m generally not excited to travel (anxiety and whatnot) I am always excited to go to this show. We’ll be there with a few other great food companies and people that validate why I pour so much extra effort and energy into something with little monetary return. We’ll be the little fish in the big pond fighting for our survival in a sea of middle-aged suits hawking their version (or their purchased companies) pushing the trend of the year without any real understanding of it outside their marketing points and increase to the bottom line.
This weekend I also spent a good amount of time getting up a pre-beta intro page for a new website I’m working on with my friends Bob, Mark, and Dan (seems I have a thing for working with dudes who share my name). It’s a nifty little music-based startup that I’m really excited to share more about in the near future.
Tomorrow I’m back to the day job at Threadless where I’ve been lucky enough in the last few weeks to have relatively un-interrupted time to focus on a single project. This week should see it coming to a near close. It’s been a fun one working on upping our current integration of PayPal Express to make use of the users stored addresses and PayPal’s excellent mobile platform. Hoping this streamlines our users checkout experience. The project itself has been a relatively simple implementation in theory but has hit a few challenges along the way with regards to long-running business rules, assumptions that need changed, and wedging into pre-existing user flows.
On a non-work related note tomorrow should see me having two custom bottles of Woodford Reserve in my hands! Super excited about this. These bottles are from a custom barrel blend picked out by my coworker Scott (and a few others) for the Illist. I will hopefully have a pour from one of the bottles tomorrow night! For now I’m enjoying a super awesome Miller Lite (from a bottle).
