So, what happened to me?

You may or most likely don’t care what’s happened to me, and I can’t say that I blame you.  I’ve just had a lot of things happen.

• Both of my parent's have passed away.  I am the executor of their respective estates.  Being an executor takes a lot of work.
• I was the executor of the estate of another lady who left all of her possessions to my mother.  Three estates to be the executor of.
• I had to take over the family business, which is real estate development.
• I'm about the economic advantages of startups.  That is where I am at.  I've been thru two startups where we went from garage to sale.  These were great experiences.  I've seen startups that made every wrong decision you could make, and they just hit the ground.  You try to explain to them what the problem is and why they need to make a different decision and it is like they only understand Mandarin Chinese and you are explaining things to them in English.  
• Too many people in the programming world don't understand money and don't want to talk about the economic reasons of why things happen.  They want to talk about code.  To me, code is actually boring.  I want to use code to create an economic payback.  I want to create an economic advantage with code.  Code is only kind of interesting.  Show me something that creates a competitive advantage and I will sit on the edge of my seat and listen all day, twice on Sundays.
• I also got a bit chased off.  I’m about the customer.  Vendors are about their own sales.  There is a natural conflict there.  Sometimes, the vendor folks take things a bit too far with their rhetoric.

So, I haven’t gone anywhere.  There is plenty of work that I do, I just am not quite as visible in the tech world for the last number of years.