Leisure Engagement Passion

I returned home on Tuesday evening after visiting my In-laws for a week. Our original plans had us flying to Kauai for a couple of days of relaxation. We decided against spending any unnecessary money on this excursion and decided to just see family in Honolulu. It turns out this was what we were suppose to do. I think I mentioned in an earlier entry that my father-in-law has lung cancer. It appears he has the aggressive small cell lung cancer and he was given a couple of months without chemo or about 9 months with chemo. He made the decision to have the chemo this past Monday after the MRI scan showed that the cancer had not spread to his brain. As the “in-law” myself in this matter, I support the decision he made, but I hope his frail 84 year old body can handle the chemo. Because we live in California and my father in-law in Hawaii, my husband and I will be challenged with time to make these last few months memorable.

I had a chance to talk to my ‘travel filter’ partner, Guy Rawson, about how things are coming along and we now have our ‘dye cut’. I’ll be honest, the ideas flow pretty easy, but when it comes to the mechanics and the process, I only see the finished product. Guy used to shape surfboards in Hawaii and is very knowledgeable regarding the step by step process in making products all come together. I know we will be a great team and have our product to market in the first quarter of next year if not by December. The only thing we may have to change is where we get our financing. With the economic crisis still fluctuating back and forth and the lending as tight as well you know, we more than likely will be funding our first run with our own money. We are confident that with the retail of our product and orders we will be able to leverage ourselves on the first run and into our second production. Having the use of my personal Money Merge Account will allow me to float that funding without any stress.

I’ll be flying out again this Friday. I would say traveling again, but working on an airplane and “traveling” are definitely two different things. The one thing I am looking forward to, besides meeting about 1000 new people, is giving my typing fingers a rest. Actually, working on an airplane is a great place for me to come up with new product ideas. So far a co-worker and I have one patent pending and we’re working on a second. Our first product is a travel filter. We’re just coming into production and when we’ve got samples available I’ll be putting up more information. We decided that since all of our feedback was positive we’d better create a business structure. Our company name is Deed Innovations. It’s crazy around here and I love it.