I've been on a bit of a blogging hiatus for the past 30 days.  This is pretty much the longest I've gone without a post since I started blogging so apologies for the tardiness.  I've not been off the grid as my tweets still flow with status updates and interesting things (to me, anyway).

So, what have I been up to?

After wrapping up at Gist, we took a trip to the Southeast – first to Atlanta, then to St. Simons Island for a couple weeks.  Enjoyed the heat, humidity, and daily doses of sweet Georgia shrimp.  It was nice to be there, spend time with my Dad, and be surrounded by the uniqueness of the South.  If you are not from there, you won't understand it but I encourage you all to visit at some point.

Prior to that, I was given something I never had by my wife and friends – a surprise party.  To celebrate the next phase, Marel pulled one over on me (as did my friends) and we enjoyed food from Tacos el Guero on the deck in Kirkland.  It was amazing and humbling to have so many people there to support me.

I also had the opportunity to tour the Boeing manufacturing operations in Everett.  One word – Wow!  I've been around manufacturing facilities before but nothing on this scale and nothing this significant.  Amazing how they build planes especially the global sourcing activities related to the 787.  It was really nice to smell a factory again.  You know what I'm talking about if you've been in one.  If not, find one to tour. 

I've also been busy with various business endeavors including some consulting, some advising, lots of "being generous" allowing me to meet new people, and working on getting my own startup up and running.

I'll share more details on that shortly as I have the benefit of partnering with a long-time and super smart friend on something that will definitely "hack marketing."  More to come…