Waiting...

The big guy upstairs has decided for me to cool my heels this week, it seems. I've got a lot of stuff happening, but none of it is happening right this minute.

I have a large client in the Midwest that wants me to come out for a year and teach them how to run their software teams. It'll be cool: training, mentoring, teaching, setting up Communities of Practice. Maybe even working with the MAT some. But the deal is taking weeks and weeks to put together.

I have a small client that needs a few weeks of work done locally. I'm not planning on doing it -- small clients cannot afford to pay me to code -- so I'm subcontracting it out: managing the work, ensuring the Q/A, and helping with any management consulting that may be required. But it's taking weeks and weeks to close as well.

In addition, I've applied this year to the Y-Combinator. It's like a boot camp for startups. I don't imagine I'll get in -- they lean very heavily towards teams -- but I still have to wait to get the news.

Finally I have a couple of recruiters with offers to go places that might be fun. Seattle. Tampa. But I'm not ready to begin talking to these guys until I get through waiting on these other deals.

Meanwhile, it's blogging, reading, and commenting for me. I'm still sketching out some more startup ideas as well. After all, what's all this free time for if not creating something? You can't sit on a river bank and wait for a cooked duck to fly into your mouth.