My first day...

Day One: My first blog ever. What exactly IS this and how will it turn out? Would this be something I need? I think it may be fun to find out. Who knows how many people might find any of this interesting.

I suppose I need to say at least something fantastic to mark this occasion. But try as I might nothing seems to escape my thoughts. It's as if a giant wall were in the way holding back a giant body of water. I can chip away at it, but all I got is this little tea spoon.

The picture is one of my more recent photos. That's my funny mug on the right...yeah,the skinny asian guy standing next to my two Hawaiian friends. We just won an award together on a site I had designed. (Papa Ola Lokahi)

These past two weeks have been mad. Since leaving the company I had been with for the past 8 years everything has been a whirlwind. Getting my design business going has been a mix of incredible excitement mixed in with periods of extreme panic as well. There's just never enough time in the day.

Top if off, it seems like every damn government agency is out to get me for my money...before I even earn a cent. I need a license for everything. Now I'm cool with that, I understand Uncle Sam needs a way to get paid. But do they have to make it so difficult? They want my tax money the very least they should make it easier to do it!!?

Part of it was my fault. I followed the advice of a friend to try to start my business as an S-corporation. Now it wasn't necessarily a bad idea....I know enough about S-corps to understand there's a potential long-term advantage to setting it up that way. But suddenly jumping into that while still shivering from the aftermath of being newly unemployed is a BAAAD idea. It was just too much to handle for a single business person with no employees.

Now of course I go all around town getting all my licenses switched to LLC....of course the government and banks charge you AGAIN to file the cancellations, and then recharge you for the new name. New name?! It's just changing "Inc." to "LLC"!!

And so my company is born LOWE STUDIO, LLC....rough going, but I finally got everything done!