April 3, 2005

Well, hello…

Kim and I have journeyed against the sun, from California to New York, gave up a life in Silicon Valley, boohoo, to become innkeepers in Greenville New York at the Greenville Arms 1889 Inn. Not only did we become innkeepers but we also took over a very well run art workshops business.

Wow, what a change. My family has been in the restaurant biz and also in the inn biz for over 50 years so I was ready. Kim is a Fiber Artist, read Art Quilt, and both of us have plenty of high pressure Silly Valley experience. Oh, yes. Yes we do. And yes we love long hours, no sleep and plenty of all consuming work. That’s the absolute in requirements for us. We are the all-consuming-types. Example, if I can be brutal for a second, we expanded the workshops.

We did more than expand the workshops. After buying the lodging (inn) business and the art workshops business, we immediately, no risk, right, expanded the business to include both a NEW Winter Workshop Series but also to include Fiber Art and Art Quilt Workshops. Is that Inn Sane or what? So, we were both ready.

Kim has a retail business and has been a technical writer, a realtor, a quilt artist, you name it. Me? I’ve been only one thing, well two things, I’ve worked in High Tech, consultant, programmer, VP of Engineering, COO, CEO, and I had a paper route. As a matter of fact, Kim and I wrote a great business plan, the banks say so, and one of the things that attracted the banks most was that I put, on my resume, that I had a paper route. It was a monster paper route after all. 150 dailies and 250 Sundays. Big route.

Spot, our dog, who traveled against the sun with us, says “woof”, which means “hi” in doggie.

Later you’ll hear from Kim.