Oh my gosh I am beat. This evening's commuters reflecting the late hour of the trip home, a smattering of Government ID cards, mixed in with tourists, early happy hour partiers and assorted office and shift workers. The mood quiet, most sitting looking a little shell shocked, if they are not already asleep.

I have been asked by someone whether I am really as religious as the focus of the last couple of days. My answer is that I do have a relationship with my faith, that does involve going to church pretty much every week, however I would not describe myself as "Christian" in the modern overriding definition. I used the quotes from the "Upper room" as a guiding and starting point, as it were to hand, to give me something I feel perhaps I don't do well as a person and then to keep that in mind during the day, more to become a better person who thinks and shares of others.

Today was a very mixed bag, customer calls early in the morning, following up and confirming appointments, finishing up the draft of a proposal in between, a nice little walk up to one of our partners on T Street, where today's picture was taken during. Then lunch with the CEO, and a ride, with the whole company over to Springfield to go get some partitions to split up the development office and part of the major open area as cubicles for the new staff starting in July and September. It dawned on my other partners that this is probably the last time we can fit our entire workforce in two vehicles, a 'wow' moment followed by grins.

Each day as Tanya, Cindy and I get to know one another more closely, it seems to sink in more that I'm not just an employee, but courtesy of the equity agreement that I am actually a partner, an executive in the true sense of the word and not just a title. It's not really an ego stroking feeling, more a sense of belonging, that this is not me merely earning money for other people, but that this truly being also mine along with T, C and Travis to build, to make successful.

The product is really amazing, everyone we talk to is interested still, and every potential partner we show it to wants to be involved and use on their projects, the release and productization was perfectly timed, even if only by pure luck, we just seem to have hit the leading edge of a sea change in the industry of how web sites will be built as people move away from the model of doing everything in house or contracting out.

Tomorrow is a huge day, meetings in the morning in North Virginia, both with partners that will potentially commit on the spot (the second more likely than the first), then a dash to Baltimore for a major OEM/Strategic Partner meeting, and finally with our buddies Joe and Martin last of all. Probably ending around 7-8pm..its gonna be a long one, I think I'm tired today ?

Today didn't really have a focus, if anything it was listening and keeping of mouth shut, with the opportunity to get to know my colleagues much better outside the office.


written 9:30pm 6/14/2006