{"id":50969,"date":"2003-03-21T20:12:19","date_gmt":"2003-03-21T20:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2003\/03\/21\/sinking-in\/"},"modified":"2003-03-21T20:12:19","modified_gmt":"2003-03-21T20:12:19","slug":"sinking-in-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2003\/03\/21\/sinking-in-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinking in\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling better now.<\/p>\n<p>Talked to Tatsumi, talked to Kimiko, talked to my family. I&#8217;ll be<br \/>\ntalking to Flagg as soon as he gets back to the house. So far the consensus<br \/>\nseems clear:<\/p>\n<p><i><b>It sucks, but we all agree we can make some real good come out of it.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Less overhead&nbsp; allows me to take [[dotPublishing]] into &quot;garage&quot;<br \/>\ndevelopment mode, and suddenly the company as it stands starts breaking even<br \/>\n(almost) on it&#8217;s monetary needs. That means&quot;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The ability to take on smaller clients (thus, more numerous ones)<\/li>\n<li>The ability to make sure my servers stay online and solid<\/li>\n<li>The ability to pay down some debt<\/li>\n<li>The occasional ability to purchase needed software and resources<\/li>\n<li>The ability to compensate some of those who work for me with more than<br \/>\n  [[e2:Ramen]] noodles<\/li>\n<li>Much more time to work on needed company projects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, this is a strategic withdrawal. I haven&#8217;t gotten nearly the &quot;failure&quot;<br \/>\nvibe I thought I would get from others and I have been offered a fair amount of<br \/>\nsupport in the decision.<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot to be done, especially to make this transition orderly and<br \/>\nmanageable. We will not be running away like refugees&#8230; I will be getting<br \/>\nstorage for my stuff, trucks to help with the moving issues and taking my time<br \/>\nto do it right.<\/p>\n<p>No one tossed on the street, no panic in the night. Just an orderly<br \/>\nwithdrawal so I can come back stronger.<\/p>\n<p><i><b>I can do this&#8230;. and I can make it work in my favor.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>As for my personal issues? it seems that more important than having the<br \/>\noccasional place to be intimate is the ability to actually go out, or be able to<br \/>\ntreat to dinner or maybe even buy the odd gift. <\/p>\n<p><i><b>Good to know \ud83d\ude42<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Of course, there are financial burdens to this decision and I will need to<br \/>\nwork those out, but whatever they are they have to be better than $2200 a month<br \/>\nin debt.<\/p>\n<p>Going out now with the girls, so this is all out of my mind for a while.<br \/>\nFlagg, if you haven&#8217;t read my email before this&#8230; don;t panic &#8230; it&#8217;s all<br \/>\ngood!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling better now. Talked to Tatsumi, talked to Kimiko, talked to my family. I&#8217;ll be talking to Flagg as soon as he gets back to the house. So far the consensus seems clear: It sucks, but we all agree we can make some real good come out of it. Less overhead&nbsp; allows me to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50969"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}