Today was spent mostly tying up loose ends and getting settled in work-wise.
I spent a good part of the day in Harvard Square. After realizing that all of the coffee shops were probably completely packed, I settled on a Starbucks since I’ve got tmobile account.
This led to overhearing “ketamine, DXM and PCP” in a conversation between a guy and a girl who appeared to be of college age. It certainly inspired nostalgic memories.
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Mid-afternoon, I came home and setup my Neat Receipts scanner. I ran a test and it picked up everything. I’m definitely excited to see how I can make it work well for me.
Tomorrow, I have a call with an accountant to see what is good to keep track of for write-offs, how to track things, etc. Hopefully, I’ll be able to give him all of the Neat Receipts data – organized – and have him get my taxes done easy and well.
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Later, I went to MetroRock to meet up with Todd Van Hoosear, the meetup.com Boston rock climbing group, and get some climbing in.
I ended up meeting another newcomer to the area, we got our belay tests done, and ended up climbing together the whole night. Another great instance of easily meeting interesting people. On a related note, apparently “Online Marketing Consultant” gives the nerd vibe, not the cool vibe.
Here I was, thinking I was fooling people. Maybe I’ll start telling people I’m a professional traveler…or ass model.
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Tomorrow, I’ll be working from downtown Boston and meeting a friend for lunch. If you’re in the area, let me know!
Sara – When people tell me they’re a lawyer, I get stoked and ask lots of questions. I guess that doesn’t help my nerd status.
As far as the meeting people thing, it’s definitely its own skill. I’ve only recently given it the attention that I’ve always felt like I should.
And definitely, climbers are an awesome (weird?) group that are totally approachable.
Definitely with you on the social network thing. I actually find different networks to have varying levels of openness. I’m not 100% yet, but what I think may draw the correlation is the amount of personal information that you actually have available to the world. For example, I’ve had about a 50% response rate in “Friending” on Twitter for Boston folks. Of those 50%, I’ve had conversations with about 15%.
On Facebook, though, response rate is so much lower.
So, it’s something I’ll be keeping an eye on.
/nerdiness.
As far as professional conversation stoppers, I *could* say that I’m working toward revolutionizing business organizational structures, but that goes right back to square one.
So, I’ll stick with ass model.
Taylor – I’ll keep you posted on the ass model responses