It's almost 1 in the morning, and I just fired off my first quote and demo to my first potential customer. I've been putting in a number of late nights working on this demo as well as a marketing CD I need to send out this week to future customers, but it's nice to finally complete this first proposal.

I just went out to the car to bring in the milk I'd left from an earlier shopping trip. Tonight is a quiet and cold rainy night and winter finally seems to be departing. As I walked to the car, I wondered if tonight will be the sort of night that marks the budding of a new career path, one where I will eventually be developing products full time, giving talks and advice on acoustics, and able to take time off and take the family to India for a few weeks each summer to do mission work. Or perhaps like with my Home Automation business, a year from now things will have fizzled out. Or maybe my path will be diverted as I take another job I don't enjoy to provide for the family this year.

I don't know, but what I do know is that tonight was a good night. If only for a moment, I'm doing what I love to do, and what I'm good at, and it seems like it has the potential to pay pretty well too. And that, in the words of Michael Scott, is a "win-win-win".