Coincidence, Karma or ESP?????

[susandennis]

This morning I was going through my small but important (to me) business card collection at work and making sure I had the emails and phone numbers in my Treo. I got to Aaron's and thought 'geesh, I should let him know I'm leaving and see what he's up to these days...'

About two hours later I went to take some papers upstairs and when I got back, my voice mail light was on. It was a voice mail from Aaron. Freaked me out. His message said 'Yo, what's up? I haven't talked to you in more than a year and I think it's time to do lunch. Call me.'

Aaron was a contractor on my team when I worked at Microsoft. He's one of the nicest looking human beings I have ever seen. I mean ever. And very very smart. But, he's also very fun and very cool and a good friend. He was always on the lookout for a good business opportunity. I was always trying to sell him on the idea of personal action figures...

I mean really... who wouldn't want a Susan Dennis Action Figure??!!!!! (The hilarious thing here is that at one point, he actually did do some research on it and got nums and everything. I was more than a little impressed.)

Anyway, he left Microsoft about the time I did and started his own business mainly vending out contractors to Microsoft. Over the years he took on a focus of document management. About a year and a half ago we got him to come in here and help us figure out a document management scheme. We all decided that we weren't ready yet. But he did a great job of organizing us and never saw a dime for his efforts.

Cut to today. I call him and tell him I'm jobless and starving and lunch sounds excellent. And he starts asking me what I'm looking to do and starts really poking and finally says that he has a couple of things he needs done and a contract at Microsoft that he needs help with and lets really do lunch. Monday. Noon. His office.

Wild.