So it has been a while since I posted … have been very busy with doodleboard since the “Mid-Summer Update” post. Check the site out - it is very cool. Tijan and I have been pushing very hard, proved the concept, verified the market, built an alpha product, filed provisional patents. Currently doing our best to turn this into our jobs post-HBS graduation! Very exciting, we’re looking forward to getting a shot at it. Check the doodleboard blog out as well for more of a blow-by-blow of the business.
James and I updated our web host, and with him in Hawaii and I in Massachusetts, my backups got lost somewhere in between for a while… thus this blog was down (and thus the time between posts). Good news - he’s headed back to RI for this summer! It will be great to get the original rocketmonkey back on the east coast.
Finally, I’m going to be a daddy! Any day now - due date is April 11th… kind of crazy to be an expectant father, an entrepreneur, graduating with lots of school debt and no certainty about the future. But I am certain I will love being a father, that I love being a husband to Francesca, and that I can’t wait to meet our child! (Pictures will follow, as the little one arrives).
My neighbor Shirley Bell is a wonderful watercolor artist, and I just completed overseeing her first foray into the world of the web. You can see some of her artwork at www.shirleybelldesigns.com. Just thought I’d share! Some samples of her work are shown below, she also does greeting cards, giclee reproductions, and much more.
We grievefor the loss of our two good friends and goldfish - OJ and Goldie. OJ died on the first true hot day of this summer, and Goldie followed him a few days later. These fish were centerpieces at our wedding, and we loved them dearly. I took this video of them a few short months ago, and am sharing it with you all so that they might be remembered as they were - playful, happy, and beautiful patterns of life.
Update: switching over to Flickr, until then photos unavailable
Christmas has come and gone again. Time is flying. Anyhow, Family Photos are available. I also made pop-art images of various family members, including my beloved and now dead (except Basil, far right) cats:
Francesca Moyse and I were married on August 21, 2004, with the help of many of our friends and family. The most important and wonderful thing that has ever happened to me! We just spent two weeks in Kauai, photos of wedding and honeymoon coming soon…