Jackie Danicki

6AM: Wake up after 3.5 hours of sleep.

7.25AM: Cab arrives five minutes early for ride to train station. I usually walk 30 minutes to Belmont station, but Blake is visiting San Francisco from Cincinnati and I’m meeting him early-ish in Palo Alto for breakfast.

8.07AM: Arrive in Palo Alto 23 minutes ahead of schedule. (I tend to stress about being late and so am often really, really early.)

8.47AM: After making some calls and responding to some downright exciting work emails, I look up from my iPhone to see Blake standing over me. As I credit Blake for making me more open to hugging people, there is no choice but to give him a huge hug hello. I’m so happy to see him!

9.45AM: Blake and I wander the shops of University Avenue after a lovely breakfast at the Creamery. We look but do not buy.

10.30AM: While waiting for the train to Redwood City, where I want to show off Qik HQ to Blake, I get a call from Christine Lu. I’ve arranged lunch with her and some others for 1PM, but she’s just finished interviewing Guy Kawasaki and happens to be in Palo Alto. I tell her to come work at Qik HQ until our lunch; she picks us up and we all discuss terribly un-PC things in the car.

11AM: Show Blake and Christine around Redwood City, introduce them to the Qik team. Say goodbye to Blake, promising that I’ll come back to Cincinnati soon (probably for his housewarming at Parker Flats). Get Christine settled with a desk, our wifi password, and a cold drink. Do some work and respond to still more good news in my inbox.

1PM: Wander across the street with Christine and Bhaskar to the Daily Boost. We’re joined by Jeff Nolan and Chris Yeh for a conversation on topics as diverse as China, childbirth, the economy, sex industry business models, and some of the ways in which governments everywhere really suck. Christine shoots video interviews with all of us individually, about doing business in China, for her China Business Network tech tour next month. Decide to keep Christine at the office for the rest of the day.

3.30PM: Seesmic and Le Web Paris founder Loic LeMeur drops in for a visit. (He’d sent out a tweet asking for Qik’s address and got loads of replies within minutes; Pat Phelan saw his tweet and texted me from Paris to let me know Loic was looking for us. I love the web.)

4.30PM: Web 2.0’s most talented masseur, Microsoft’s Anand Iyer, arrives in time for Qik’s weekly Friday Beer Bash. Usually, Bhaskar has to yell at us at least five times - “Stop friggin’ working, people!” - but for some reason everybody’s ready to back away from their keyboards and start drinking. Thanks to Rish, there is diet root beer (my request) and healthier food than usual (ditto). We talk a lot about binge drinking, corporate kickball, and how we might combine the two for Qik marketing purposes. Uptake founder Elliott Hughes has seen Christine’s tweets about how much fun she’s having at our office, so he swings by too.

6.30PM: Everyone but Rishi has left unusually early for the weekend. I’m on the train home from work.

6.38PM: Walk home from the station.

7.15PM: Open mail, shower, and grill up some fish for dinner.

9.00PM: Fret about packing for my 6AM flight to Arkansas and whether I will have time to prep for the cleaning lady to come on Monday. Only one thing to do when gripped by such worry: blog.

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