Heading To <strike>DC</strike> Utah

Well, we had some rough patches this week. It happens and there’s often not much you can do about it. It just happens that we finished so many of the pieces we had planned that we ran into the rough a little and had to spend more time than we anticipated planning the next steps.

That’s a good thing. One thing Duane pointed out, which I hadn’t realized was such a problem (but I should have), is that there is too much in my head which I work against and haven’t done a good enough job articulating. We ran into this problem head on this week during a demo.. we realized we didn’t have all the glue we needed.

Which brings me to Utah, literally. Duane and I had a call this morning to wrap things up for the week and get our heads screwed on right. It’s been trying working remotely for so long and I had been planning on going out in January but the month escaped me. Duane raised the notion of one of us coming out to work in person again. So we are.

I was supposed to be in DC on Monday - Thursday, first for the BrainJam and then for the ASAE Conference on Technology. Unfortunately, splurging 1K on the conference is too hard to justify without our products more baked so I decided it would be best to funnel that into meeting and working with Duane.

So, two phone calls and several IMs later, I am now on a flight to Salt Lake on Sunday night (yes I am spending my first birthday in Utah). Duane’s picking me up and I will be working with him daily until Friday evening when I snag the red eye home. I’m very excited to be able to finalize the shape of things. Duane’s excited as well. I’ll be learning some Ruby on Rails while out there so I can be more useful with my HTML prototyping.

Fun fun. Much regret to everyone I was planning on seeing this coming week. Duty calls.