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Greg has been working hard trying to get his application up and running. It is 99% ready. Just a few tweaks and a week of testing. I am proud of him. I mean ideas are pretty easy – even great ones but seeing your idea go from conception to implementation is a huge undertaking and he never gave up on it. If something didn’t work he tried a new approach. He would have those moments in the middle of the night where he would jump up and say, “OH yes, that might work?” and then go running down to the basement to try his thought out. I think about all the evenings he spent down there working on it – with the cat meowing at the laundry door to go in to use her litter box, or the dryer sounding off with that loud beep and him pleading with us to keep the laundry room door shut because it was all too distracting. When Youtube exploded onto the scene, I kinda felt a moment of panic seeing Greg’s idea already done but he didn’t see it that way. To him it is all about building a better mousetrap and the sucess of youtube only made him more determined to get his up and running. And Apple just released ITV yesterday and so now everyone is getting on the band wagon but when Greg came to me with this idea over two years ago it was new and fresh and Greg would go on and on about mpeg4 and how it could crunch video down, etc and he was so enthusiatic about it, it was hard not to pick up on his excitement. However, he went at it alone with the help of one buddy programmer who was just too busy at his day job to give Greg the support he needed and Greg had his jobs too and so well it just took him this amount of time getting it underway. Sounds like I am giving a list of reasons why Greg is a dollar short and a day late. But I’m not. I am actually thrilled for him. He is so happy seeing it finally coming to life and it is a really nice looking site now and a sweet application and I’m very proud of him. It is funny though because the only financial plan we had for this was our Visa card (s). Man, do we have a strange relationship with that credit card. We moved to Toronto and lived for the first few months here with the help of credit, we got married on credit (our wedding and honeymoon came to the exact amount as our visa limit was at the time) and now this application was more or less completely credit card and line of credit supported in the last few months and well we’re maxed out once again. I’m not saying running up credit is the proper way to achieve financial stability but wasn’t the Wayan’s movie “Hollywood Shuffle,” financed by a Visa card? And it worked out for them – so our fingers and toes are crossed now leaving butterflies to roam freely about our stomachs. I’ll let you know when the site is up so you can have a look.
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