Michael Helmke

Another busy day. Outside of networking and work I had lunch with daughter Elizabeth. We went to Journey to the Dumpling which she had not yet gone to. It is still good though I think I’ve had enough Chinese dumplings … Read More

I will step back and say I’m surprised and pleased that I’ve written this 300 days in a row now. Even though I think a lot of my writing here is probably pretty dull, it has personally helped me to … Read More

Yesterday I started obsessing about how I don’t know anything, and I mean anything, about accounting and how I needed to fix that. I at least needed to know enough as a small business owner to not hurt myself with … Read More

I went off to shop for ingredients to make curry for dinner tonight and also off to the birthday party for my friend and finance guy Phil’s son. Had a good time there and came home to make curry. Curry … Read More

For a change of scenery, I spent the morning and early afternoon at Peet’s. I had a gift card and it is nice to get out and not have it be networking. I got quite a bit done and am … Read More

I’m definitely catching up from where I was last week. I’m getting some writing done farther ahead and everything is going pretty smoothly. Among things there was some client related communications that was good. I wrote one of next weeks … Read More

I went to Wednesday networking and didn’t except very much. During commercials there was a guy who was remarkably salesy. Projecting his voice quite loudly, well rehearsed but clearly rehearsed, and quite insincere feeling. I found it annoying and I … Read More

At today’s networking meeting, a funny thing happened… Before the meeting started, a woman walked in and started talking to one of the regulars, Steve, whom I was talking to. She knew him from prior networking meetings and had not … Read More

After a pretty intense work day, I went back to Mas Taco Bar with both my daughters. I picked daughter Catherine up and we met daughter Elizabeth who was driving back from a class at Davis. Happy Hour is 3-6pm … Read More

I had a pretty lazy morning which was nice. I got out of bed when I finally needed to start getting ready for my brunch date with daughter Catherine. Elizabeth still has her test prep class which goes noon to … Read More