Summer Is Officially Over

I am a big fan of summer. Having grown up in the Mojave Desert and lived in really hot places like Turkey, I have a real soft spot for a blistering hot climate. So even though I live in incredibly mild Northern California, I enjoy the last few warm days of September as if I'm living on borrowed time: any day now, it's going to start getting cold. No more heading out with the kids on a moments notice with no one clad in more than shorts and Tevas. It's going to be "Where is your coat?" and "You can't go out in this weather in that!!"

But there is a sliver lining. Every year, it seems, with the end of summer comes the onslaught of consulting gigs that every company seemed to have put on hold in order to enjoy the summer weather. In other words, with the end of summer I find myself incfredibly busy again.

I've just completed a GPS project for a very cool company in Menlo Park called Konaware that is in the vehicle logistics business. Plus I've hooked up with the infinitley patient and helpful guys at Imago Technologies for a couple of very fun, classic web application projects. And of course my HP relationship continues. And I'm hopeful that I will win a contract to help drug and medical supply giant Cardinal Health roll out a wireless content delivery system for their Executive Briefing Program. Also, I'm heading up to Microsoft for the 2005 MVP Summit along with about a thousand other people next week. All of a sudden, I'm busy, busy, busy.

It's almost as if I'm forced to slow way down in summer, like when as a kid you got a nice long summer vacation. I spent lots of time in the moutains, camping, and swimming with my little guys. Now that summer's over, it's back to school for them, and back to work for me!