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Further indications things are back on track

I came home last night from the Steve Case/Walt Mossberg discussion at the Computer History Museum to find a final datapoint that things are getting better: Mike and I have to renew our lease and this is the first year that our rent has not actually gone down! It hasn’t gone up, and our two options (12 mos and 6 mos) are priced at parity, whereas before there was a slight discount to the 6 month lease. I always thought that reflected optimism on the part of our landlord that he could quickly ratchet it up once the good times came rolling. We’ve been here 3 full years now, and the spread between the two got wider, only to disappear completely this year.

The second stream of indicators come from all the events and happenings. Last night there was the CHM thing, which was pretty good, but not quite the thing to hold my concentration after a day with my sick dad. Afterwards, a bunch of us went out for pizza - Mike, Niall, Brendan Wilson and his wife Ashley who works at PayPal, and Micah Alpern. It’s kind of like you can find or make a “party” where ever you go.

Tonight, a chick group that I belong to is having a party - SFWOW is basically a mailing list with random discussion and tech stuff. It’s free or $3 depending on how full they are, at Cafe Metropole in SF. Afterwards, I get to get some art with the IronVJ battle at 1015 Folsom in SF, which should at least make me laugh.

Hope to see some of you there.