Scott Blomquist

With Jennifer and a houseful of stuff finally in town, we’ve got our unpacking work cut out for us. For better or worse, Vidoop is currently marching toward our next big product wave before the end of September.

Overall, I’d say things are going really well right now, with our technology deliverables mostly ready to push out the door and our marketing materials firming up. The technology team is kicking ass and taking names right now, and our leadership is more certain about the future now than ever before.

Unfortunately, Vidoop’s success comes with a price. Only now that Jennifer’s in town, a huge string of out-of-town (and even out-of-state) business travel is cropping up. I’ll have fun with it, and having the two of us operating out of a common base of operation means more time together than when she was still in Seattle, but as with many things in life, the timing leaves something to be desired.

That said, I think we’re both feeling pretty good about getting settled in to our house in Tulsa, and I can’t wait to see what happens at work and otherwise as a result of the hard work and busy schedules leading up to our September launch.

Made it to Tulsa last night right around midnight. My “Where you at?” tool wasn’t quite as exciting to follow along with as I hoped it would be–we spent most of Day 2 in the mountains of Utah with terrible cellular reception, and then on Day 3, we were on I-40 the whole day so we weren’t terribly motivated to fire up the laptop (despite having good cell signal, I’m sure). Sorry about that. The good news is that I have a good start on the tool for the next time I go on a road trip–it will be used again someday.

The fun story from day 2 is that we stopped at Pizza Hut in some town in Arizona for a break from driving. The waitress took our order using only her incredible memory. Only it wasn’t an incredible memory. She brought our pizza out. “Is this what you ordered?” It wasn’t–the pineapple had migrated from the size with Canadian bacon (yum) to the side with hamburger and tomato (yuck). “Oh–I wrote it down right–must have been the cooks.” Sure–got it.

So she disappeared into the back and came back with the news that she had just remade our pizza and that it would be out shortly. When it came out, it was completely missing the tomato. They told us that they had run out.

The manager ended up just giving us the pizza. We ate it and were on our way.

I’ve got our “where you at?” map up. Check it out.

More features to come over the course of the trip.

Jennifer got stopped by the State Patrol. Passed a cop going 82 in a 70. He must think she’s cute–she got off with a warning.

Jennifer and I are finally on the road from Seattle (Bellevue) to Tulsa, OK. In usual form, it took until 1:00 before we were on the road. Also in usual form, we were up until 2am the night before the cross-country drive. Jennifer points out that we got tons of good stuff done at the house last night and this morning.

My evening started out traveling directly from the airport to the Melting Pot in Seattle for the annual Microsoft Intern Game staff dinner. That was fun, but my flight got in 30 minutes late (thanks, Delta), so I missed my favorite course: cheese. I made up for this during “dessert” when a group of us ordered cheese instead of chocolate. Yay cheese. Throughout dinner a group of us were joking about opening a restaurant called “Cheese ‘Til Dawn”.

After dinner, Jennifer and I stopped in at her office at Microsoft. After we finished cleaning off her computer and desk, the full impact of the move finally hit me. Apparently right up until that point, I hadn’t really moved to Tulsa so much as was I was sorta staying there during the week. As of last night, I realized that I was really no longer connected to Microsoft, and that I was really packing up the last of our things in Seattle to move to Tulsa with no strong connections remaining.

I’m currently working on the position-tracking tool so y’all can watch a moving map to see where we are. It’s coming along well. I have the GPS data decoder done. Now I need to build the database to shovel the data into. I hope to have this done by early evening. I’ll post a link here when it’s ready to go. I’ll also post some pictures as we go along.

Just out of curiosity, who’s following along from home?