So I’ve decided to start blogging again. I can’t help it. In fact, I’m pissesd at myself for not bloggin more over the last 7 months. As soon as I left berlin for Buenos Aires, I kinds stopped, which was stupid.
Anyway, here’s the updates for all the pals around the world who check in here for their daily dose of JW and Pete adventures.
In short, the adventure continues. After much ballyhoo and wasted time, Petes and I are back together and running DubCorp from 2,(count em 2), corporate headquarters in the East Bay, which Iive come to think of as one of the coolest places to live. I’ve got my family close by. My dad and sister are minutes away, which is great cause I feel like I’ve been a bad son/brtoher for the last few years. I can creep over to Pleasant Hill anytime I want and have one of my pops’ burgers, or take my sis for a lunch, or whatever. I’ve got ol’ B and Linders, who have always been good friends to me, no matter what retarded decisions I make. In fact, I credit B with giving me a swift kick in the balls, and really calling out some of the bullshit decisions I’ve made in the last couple years on some personal shit. I’ve also got mama dub about 90 minutes away, so I can check on her whenever I feel like it. TT and JT are an hour away. They’ll always be down for a night of singing into Corona bottles with the Modeslo single mama’s. StephTam is an hour away, and she has serioulsly proved to be pretty much the best person I know.
Business wise, Peter and I are about to do some bananas stuff. It’s all the same shit that was planned before, but now its coming to life and it’s so exciting. It’s almost as if the whole time in Berlin was preparation for this. When I left two years ago, I was not in a the place as an adult to run the busines the way I needed to. Too much baggage. Now, with all that cleared out and gone, and with 2 years of software development behind us, we aere at an amazing opportunity. We have an e-commerce package that allows us to open as many online stores as we want. We are also building sites for other businesses here in the East bay, and are working on passing off a lot of the day to day oeprations of our other businesses to other people. We want Andre to be our first employee. I can’t think of a better adventure than to bring his ass out here and show him America for a year, the way he showed us Berlin, which I still love and want to head back to soon.
So we have an office in Oakland, where Petey works, and I am looking for an office in Walnut Creek. I bought a new car, and driving it into Oakland is surreal. I feel like one of the corporate masses, waiting in line for the Caldecot, and singing country songs in the car like no one can see me. We have a little Jewish landlord names George who saw us working all day Saturday and decided we were going to be his favorites. Around the corner is a place called Lukas’, which is this little beer joint where me and Pete had a couple of sips earlier. We’ve even talked about, if things go well business wise, cruising back to the D-land for a surprise Toby fest visit with all our weirdo German friends.
It’s funny, I was chatting with Andre and we were both sad that our little adventure in Berlin was over. And I kept telling him, that the greatest thing in the world, was that the adventure was just beginning! That we’re so young, and the future is so unlimited; and that just because one chapter closes, you have this whole stretch of undiscovered life ahead of you, with opportunity and promise around every corner. Being a German, I broke it down in simple terms and told him we have many many trips to the Kreuzberg Spree canal ahead of us, where he can bring his little Cologne burgers, and we’ll strum the guitar and sing songs about stupid ass Peter till he shows up and we make him drink the Polski-man moonshine till he sings along with us. He totally understood!
So more to come. Theres so much to write about. Me and Peter are trying to build an online empire in the heart of the Bay! We’re both getting used to life back in California, and America even!!
It’s great to be back!
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