Posts under ‘Personal Issues’

Happy birthday Two-Bit Operation! Today marks the one-year anniversary of our last day at our previous jobs. It seems like just last week that, wide-eyed and full of boundless optimism, we started the company and this blog. What difference a year makes! Our eyes aren’t as wide anymore (fatigue-induced :)), but [...]

As many of you know, we’ve been doing a lot of traveling back and forth between Chicago and Seattle, with occasional trips to SF and Irvine.  Even with the annoying travel restrictions, travel is still fun and incredibly useful for a virtual organization like ours.  After my last trip, here are some random thoughts:
Pros:

Traveling can [...]

I watch the Apple commercials and they tell me that my mac (I’m assuming that includes my newish MacBook Pro) doesn’t ever need to restart.  It then makes me sad everytime I have to reboot and John gets to laugh at me with his Windows laptop which has been exhibiting the stability I wish I [...]

So now that we’ve both used up most of our sick and vacation days, it’s time to really get cracking again.  After also having a cold for a couple weeks (not as bad as John though), I feel pretty good and my mind is clear and ready to focus.  I’ve also been reading some inspiring [...]

Sometimes a routine event in corporate life takes on a whole different meaning when it occurs in the context of a small startup.  Take, for example, being sick.  At Microsoft I’d never hesitate to use the health benefits and get a checkup at the slightest sign of a sniffle or cough.  Better to be safe [...]