Tuesday, February 15, 2005

My Birthday and Valentines

Well, I've fallen behind again with my blog by a few days. Anyways, thought I'd catch you all up on the events. Sunday was my birthday and now I'm 28 years old. Man, 2 more years until 30! I still feel pretty young. In fact most people seem to think I look like I'm right out of high school. I don't think so, but oh well. This is nice except for the fact that my work place seems to put more value on years experience, more maturity, etc. Which I think have all that, but when people meet me for the first time, I kind of get blown off. That's about the time, I reach behind my back and grab my sledgehammer of information technology acronyms, and talk a bunch of useless non-sense like every other IT person does. ;-P

Anways, Valentines day was cool too. I cooked my famous grilled ribeyes, garlic mashed potatoes and steamed asparagus. MMmmmmmm... I love that stuff. My wife thinks a lot of my cooking is better than most restaurants. That's why my new idea is to open up my own restaurant. I'm just in the beginning stages of even thinking about this, but if anyone knows anything about making a business like that work, let me know. I think if I'm going to make any real money, I'm going to have to start some sort of business and something tells me that getting into the music business after 28 years of age is going to be a little tough.

3 comments:

Robin Alexa said...

Hi Jonathan,

My parents had a restaurant for five years from 1994-1999. It's a really tough business because the profit margin is really not that high and it tends to take up almost all of your time. I wasn't involved in doing the books or anything but I helped them run it, and although it was a popular enough restaurant my parents decided it just wasn't worth the time they invested for the money they were making.

Yours could be different though. Keep asking around for other opinions from people that have had restaurants.

Catering might be a better option.

:)

Jonathan said...

Thanks for the info Robin. I figured, from what I've seen that it can be a lot of work. I just wasn't sure how the profit margins were from it though. I'm still going to do some reason on it, just to get a better feel. We'll see what happens. I'll probably think of some new idea in a couple of months, I tend to do that.

Robin Alexa said...

However after saying all that I said in my previous post...I think that whatever you have your heart in and you really enjoy doing, is what you should do, and what you will excel at, right?