Preface to a summer unlike any other...

I am sitting in my office right now as I write this. Yes, it's a beautiful Saturday afternoon here on the seacoast of New Hampshire, almost too beautiful to be cooped up indoors, but this is the beginning of a major change in the way I do business in my 9 to 5 world. Starting tomorrow, my primary business of designing, building and shipping iPod adapters for Saabs will lay claim to new hours within the day as I shift things around to take a second job to stay afloat.

The road that led me to this point is an expensive one, full of mistakes and empty promises. The iPod adapter I had been working on was supposed to be out almost a year ago, but when the software contractor I hired off Craigslist delivered a sub-par product $6,500 over budget, I was stuck fixing a lot of mistakes. Meanwhile, I was still taking orders for the iPod adapter that was gaining an ever growing backlog. Finally I threw it all down and said enough is enough; I stopped taking orders so I could focus on filling old orders first, then gradually ramping things back up. This of course meant that the anticipated profit from new orders dried up and I needed to find a part-time job to fill the void to not only keep my financial situation in check, but also to keep the overhead at the shop in check as well.

Could I be a bouncer at a bar downtown? How about a Barista at Starbucks? I started combing the Portsmouth Herald, hoping to find some graveyard shift thing that would let me be at my facility during the day. Then one ad jumped out at me -- I called and was welcomed up to their office for an interview. Suffice to say, I got the job and hence this blog was created to follow my daily travels as... an ice cream truck driver.

Hop aboard and try your best to ignore the music box... life is too short not to take up an opportunity like this, so check back every day for the latest and greatest from behind the wheel of the big ol' freezer on wheels.

CL