Joe 5.0…

- Week of 19-25 January.
- Monday, tea, photo and notes processing, weekly backups, nap, bumped into Paul in Vredehoek, blogging, Michael came to fetch the aquaponics book.
- Tuesday, last day of Mia’s school holidays, dropped off a laptop, fetched Mia, we found her some new school shoes (size 4) and tekkies (only had to visit 5 shops), scones with jam and cream, music appreciation drive with The Cure and Roxette, wine tasting at Glen Carlou, a swim, a walk and a very recently harvested mostly Chardonnay tasting from stainless steel tanks in Franschhoek with Nikki, dropped Mia at her gran’s house, Mia was a bit sad that school is starting, but I figure she needs to get swimming again, nice sunset drive back to Cape Town, Georg made me watch some Homeland S4 – so we did some Cape Town scene spotting, nice day.
- Writing Your Way to Happiness
- Wednesday, Mia’s first day in grade 3, meeting in Sea Point, swim, took my bicycle for a service, afternoon at the Batstone pool on the roof of the Cape Quarter mall… nice space, Modern Alchemists Meetup at Miao in De Waterkant… I kinda like De Waterkant, Georg gave me a lift home, swim, broccoli salad, a drink at Carlyle’s, found some dark chocolate M&Ms at the party-Engen.
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“Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.” — Tony Hsieh, Zappos founder and CEO
- Pro tip: it might sound like a good idea to take the December holiday to work out what you want to do next, but financially it’s not that smart… that scene from Rushmore with Bill Murry underwater in the swimming pool.
- Thursday, drove to the office via Kloof Nek road, first day on the new project… can’t tell you much about it yet, but there are nice sea views from the office and 100Mbps internet, sunset Promenade walk, a quick salad and a ginger shot with Cath at Plant Cafe… funny – seems like as I’m getting off the tech startup kool-aid fuelled hamster wheel – Cath is getting on, a swim at home.
- I managed to figure out what I want to do this year – and what I don’t want to do. Maybe chasing the crazy tech startup stuff is not the best route… maybe having some stable running project, with a venture builder model on the side makes more sense.
- Joe 5.0 – depending on how you count, today was the start of my fifth job/career cycle. 1) Two jobs in Stellenbosch, 2) two jobs in Cape Town, 3) the Frogfoot, Amobia and Teraco days, 4) then the TrustFabric and Gust Pay days. The new project actually has a product people understand and want and soon it will have customers and employees, very refreshing.
- Friday, work – employee number one, a walk around Sea Point, Hilah’s birthday drinks at Up Yours (rooftop bar above Yours Truly) in Kloof Street with Paul, Claus and Janey, a drink at Yours Truly, grabbed a slice of New York Pizza, 31deg heat after 22:00, a swim at home, woke up at 2:00 and took another swim.
- Claus suggested I make a presentation for Mia about after school activities and things she can learn and what she can do with them… career paths etc. Choir vs robotics vs touch typing vs drama class.
- Saturday, fetched Mia, minor dentist disaster – had to go find one after 13:00 on a Saturday – sense of humour failure about Naulene not communicating things again, drove to Franschhoek with Mia, swim, afternoon walk, 22yo French Chardonnay.
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“Same shit, different Friday.” — Paul
- Sunday, swimming, AfrikaBurn theme camp registration (creative writing) – managed to get 22 creative crew tickets, moar swimming, afternoon walk, picked some figs, dropped Mia off at her gran’s house – Mia borrowed the Roxette / Look Sharp CD *grin*, nice drive home, pizza at Carlyle’s with Georg and a triple whiskey Dom Pedro, watched some of The Campaign again.
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“Can’t is a real C-word.” — The Campaign
Have a fun week, crazy kids.