Love to all. Even you.

So, I had a meeting at an Ad Agency in midtown today. I thought it was with an upper-middle manager of creative. I had been talking with her for a long time, ever since she responded to a direct marketing piece that involved me, a PowerBook, and a Gorilla suit. Quite successful.

It turns out she was a Senior Partner, and the Director of Creative Management for the whole company. And this is a BIG company. AND, bless her amazing self, she invited her newly hired colleague to join us. Well, once I realized that I was meeting with some really high-end folks, I just cut loose and had fun. Professionally, of course. But I had a true blast meeting with these people. It’s one of the most storied advertising agencies in history, so I wanted them to be our client.

They’re giving us a shot in two weeks. ROCK.

Man.

So, this is the second time I’ve had to return a PowerBook to Apple, because the trackpad is so messed up. This is a real drag. On the one hand, the Mac OS is SO much better, but on the other, the hardware tends to blow chunks. At least this time around.

Bleah.

I just posted on this dude’s blog. Seems like a nice guy… he was writing about having his first kid, and how he felt that there were phases of fatherhood.

I left a comment… and thought: Heck, why not post it on my own site? Although I edited it for, like, the gazillion typos I did on his site. Apologies, Mr.

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Three phases?

I think there are dozens. My oldest is 8, and I’m hitting about a Fatherhood Phase every few months.

I was talking to a childless friend of mine today… a mutual friend of ours experienced a setback with one of his kids… a condition that’s somewhat serious. This guy (the one without kids) said: “Man, that’s another reason to skip out on having kids.”

I said: “Dude. I think the craziest and most wonderful thing about having kids is how it utterly broadens the depth and breath of human experience. The highs are SO much higher, the lows are SO much lower. SO much joy. SO much worry. It’s like the bookshelf of potential just gets SO much wider.”

It made sense to me, at least.

I noticed that some changes I had made in my computer accounts hadn’t taken effect… and THEN I realized that I hadn’t restarted my computer in a couple weeks. That NEVER happens with Windows XP. OS 9 was just as bad as Windows, but I don’t even use Classic anymore

So I turned down a $120,000/year job today. Then I hired someone new. Then I signed up to move my company to bigger space. Then I started full-throttle towards opening a news, secondary business that I feel could be MUCH larger than my first. Very interesting.

So here we go again. My damn entrepreneurial spirit has me launching headfirst down an uncertain road that could lead to rags, riches, or a little of both.

Yeehah.