Home for a week

This has been a busy week for me and infinitely tiring. I flew back to Cali on Monday to be in the office for the Shopatron shareholders and board of directors meetings as well as our 2nd annual client conference. It was really great to be back and see everyone in the office. I was really proud of all the work that had been done to prepare the office and to prepare for the conference. I noticed 2 main things about being home this week.

1. I really missed sleeping in my own bed. Damn it is going to be hard to leave that again
2. Living in California is really quite comfortable.

I have been in pretty much a perpetual state of tiredness all this week between the long hours and timezone differential. But I did love seeing all my compatriots and customers in SLO.

The other great crowning achievement this week was the release of the global Shopatron platform! A tremendous amount of final effort went in by the engineering team in conjunction with testing and support from others. My hats go off to Dave D, Nelson, Meike, Tony, Ben, Dave M, and Dave C. I know it wasnt fun but I do hope they feel a strong sense of accomplishment for getting this code out the door. I know I feel good about it.

Now its time to tighten all the loose ends up and get to the operations side of the EU launch.

I head back to my other home tomorrow with a bit of sadness. I will miss SLO and my friends and coworkers. I will miss the sunshine and warm weather which has been beautiful today. But I cant wait to see Evan and Tracey and I am totally stoked that we can finally push out some international catalogs like Hercules Stands and Ernie Ball.

You have to take the good with the bad and just keep moving forward so off I go again.