What’s Going On?

~ Laura

Hello, loyal friends! Thanks for coming here to check in. I’ve been a terrible online correspondent for the past three months, because I’ve been engrossed in launching a new start-up. And I mean totally engrossed. I’m waking up at 2 in the morning with ideas and working on weekends. It’s fun and a whole new adventure that is not bloggable..

With this whole new entity occupying my life, other aspects of life got pushed to the sidelines, including regular writing. I’ve missed it. Blogging for over twenty years has burned permanent grooves in my brain. I need to write regularly. So, I’m coming back to it slowly. I can write on mornings like this one, when I get up early, and it’s too rainy to go for a run.

In short, life is good. My oldest son is currently in Queenstown, New Zealand. He is backpacking throughout New Zealand for an undetermined amount of time — he says a year; I say three months. The airline lost his backpack at first, so there was some drama. Jonah and drama are peanut butter and jelly.

He’s having a fabulous time. He saved up for nine months for this trip. He can coast on saving for about two months, and then he’ll find a restaurant job somewhere.

Ian is home with us for the summer. He has an unpaid internship beta testing software for an AI company in England. He had to learn a new coding language, and he’s rewriting the code for them. He must be doing well, because they had him sign an IP contract last week.

We took Ian to Universal Studios to see the new Nintendo theme park. The rest of the summer will be longer weekend trips to upstate New York and the Jersey shore.

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7 thoughts on “What’s Going On?”

  1. That’s so awesome to hear! I have been wondering. If your startup can be helped through word of mouth promotion let us know about it. 🙂 – JennG

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    1. So nice! Thank you! At this point, we’ve a hyperlocal enterprise, so I have to work through local channels. It’s all good though. It’s slowly, slowly happening.

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  2. This all sounds great. Ah, to be a 20something backpacking indefinitely through New Zealand. But the startup sounds great too – glad that is working out well.

    We took a train out west to see Santa Fe, the Grand Canyon, and Utah. Highly recommend – especially the California Zephyr’s segment through Colorado. Incredibly beautiful.

    af

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    1. I took the California Zephyr from Chicago to Nebraska. It was kind of dull on that stretch.

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      1. Yeah, that’s not the stretch to take if you want scenery! But Colorado is definitely worthwhile. There are something like 40 tunnels and it goes through the mountains. One of the most beautiful stretches of the country I’ve ever seen, and though driving through Colorado is lovely, this is a unique and spectacular angle on the landscape.

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  3. Glad Jonah is doing this – it gets harder to get the confluence of time and money as you get older. My brother in law did something similar in New Zealand about 20 years ago. I don’t know if he worked or not but since he was an engineer between jobs he had the funds to be there close to a year.

    Marianne

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