The Tech Baby has an ear infection which means no day care. The Tech Wife absolutely has to go to work so that means I ‘work from home’ and play babysitter. With a 7 month old boy on the brink of crawling, about the only ‘work from home’ I will be doing is a little writing (during nap times) and this blog. As such, I figured I would document my day with the Tech Baby…(All times are Pacific Daylight Saving Time)
5am: When the Tech Baby awakes, you have 3 minutes to get a bottle or else all hell breaks lose. I meet the deadline and commence feeding. I watch CNBC during the feeding process to see what is happening in the capital markets paying close attention to technology vendor earnings reports. Intel has a good quarter indicating positive signs for the tech sector. 3Par’s quarter stinks worse than what I am about to witness in the Tech Baby’s diaper – not a good start for the storage earnings season.
6:30am: The Tech Wife takes over so I can do a briefing via con call. Interesting company (name intentionally omitted because they are in stealth mode )- decent technology, solid management team.
7:30am: Tech Baby takes a nap so I commence a whitepaper on the next generation search solutions.
9:30am: The Tech Baby wakes up and is once again starving. This time we go with rice cereal which looks like shredded cardboard mixed with milk and doesn’t smell much better. This process takes all of five minutes because the Tech Baby is quickly becoming a human garbage disposal. An e-mail newsletter in which I wrote a short article appears on the Blackberry. No time to read it, another diaper changes awaits.
11:30am: The Tech Wife calls to make sure the house hasn’t burned down and I haven’t lost the Tech baby
11:32am: I confirm the location of both fire extinguisher (just in case) and Tech Baby who, after learning how to roll over last week, has managed to move across the room since the Tech Wife called two minutes ago.
12:30-1:15: Short nap for the Tech Baby. Helikes to be awake for Maria Bartiromo on CNBC’s “Closing Bell”. I had numerous calls to return during this time-frame – many of which came from the press asking about what storage vendor(s) Dell was going to buy. Apparently the company poignantly discussed its strategy to grow bigger margin businesses both organically and inorganically at its investor analyst event yesterday.
1:30-2:30: Internal con call while feeding the Tech Baby. Halfway through the feeding, the Tech Baby decided to ‘return’ the meal all over me like a Proof of Concept gone bad. Productive call, unproductive feeding.
3:30: Tech Baby is enjoying a Business Week magazine while I return some e-mails on the Blackberry. Even though the kid has millions of toys, he would prefer to tear apart a magazine and try to eat the pages.
4:00: More food. I guess the magazine was merely an appetizer for the Tech Baby. He then tried the TV remote and my old Blackberry (if you ever break a phone and have young kids, save the phone so they play with something that looks like the one you really use), but neither of those would fit in his mouth. Back to the cardboard and milk. I am so happy the kid loves looking at the ticker at the bottom of CNBC rather than watching Oprah.
4:30-5:00: The Tech Baby grabs another cat nap while I clean up the place so when the Tech Wife comes home it doesn’t appear that a nuclear missile landed in the living room. A couple more paragraphs on search.
5:00-5:30: Once again, its bottle time. The Tech Wife is home and takes over.
5:30-when I fall asleep: Time to do my day job. Finish the search paper. Review a couple of presentations for briefings tomorrow. Build a VTL scorecard matrix to help a customer make a buying decision.
The final tally:
- Tech Baby meals: 5
- Diaper changes: I lost count (and my sense of smell) after the first one
- Tech Baby naps: 3
- Phone calls: 3
- E-mails responded to: 12
- Whitepaper pages: 1 (so far)
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