Day 3

Well, day 3 at the office wasn't that exciting. Dad had to work from home most of the day so I (Ben) was here on and off throughout the afternoon.

The cool thing was that in the evening Dad, Debby, and Little Sis Abby brought some office furniture from Whitewater. Also, they brought my telescope to add an artsy feel to the room. IF you can imagine: a bookshelf full of history books and maps, a globe, some artifacts from my world travels. In the corner there is Scottish Claymore. A few of my older brother's paintings hang on the wall. He is quite talented so thats a nice touch. We don't really have desks, but rather a few tables. Other than that, the office is brick wall and cememnt floor.

Like I said - Shelf with weird toys on it. Brick Wall. Globes. Super Cool.

The building itself is called "The Stables." 100 years ago it was used as horse stable and ice house. Ironic.

I met some of the other building occupants as well - such a creative mix. There are videographers, free-lance writers, sound engineers, and graphic designers all within this tiny building. Add to that 2 eccentric historians...hmm.

There has been some trouble with the wireless and wired internet. I hope to see these problems go away soon...

Karl adds...

Day 3 I was working from home. I got depressed reading up on the hurdles of getting a business loan (credit history, collatoral, etc.) and was feeling sore so I took a hot bath. While in the bath I completely re-thought the entire plan for the business. There were three major parts to this re-thinking: (1) make it free, (2) just start and stay in the g-earth browser, rather than in a web page, (3) see all the data, including the user query, as a merged directed graph. I was just blown away, and afraid this made all the work so far useless. Major changes at this point become dangerous, but are still doable. But the raw power of these insights about what the product really should be was so strong I decided to move on all of them. Ben agrees. We'll see how they turn out.