Every Tuesday night, my business partner and I have a date. A working date. It’s in our calendars for 9:00 to 10:30. The place is always the same – the basement office – so no babysitter is required. And there’s plenty of parking. We’ve had this standing date for about a year and a half, since we returned from the Business of Software conference in 2011.
I mentioned in Working Together – Part 1 how SatMP is like our second born child. Well, like our first born child whom we drive to various extracurricular activities, we need to drive this baby places too. Only, by driving, we mean staying put, and by places, we mean putting in the time. When we made this earth shattering discovery, we were both gainfully contracted i.e. day jobs, and found we had a hard time tackling our to-do list. And boy did the list grow while we were at the conference. They say the way to eat an elephant* is one bite at a time but those bites are sure tiny when you’re tired and there are competing demands like laundry and bookkeeping. The obvious time slot would have been our namesake Saturday mornings, but those are now for family activities… so during one of our lovely dinners in Boston, we committed ourselves to one whole night a week to pampering our SatMP.
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