Tomorrow I will be embarking on a journey like none other I have experienced before. I will be joining a small start-up out in Palo Alto. It’s gonna be quite a different experience for me. For one, I’ll be sharing a 3 bedroom house with 5-6 other people. If that wasn’t tight enough, we’ll also be working out of this apartment.

I’ll also be cutting back on all the things I’m used to (nights out). On the plus side, I won’t have to put on my shoes to go to the bathroom (as it has been the past 2 weeks.)

I’m very excited for this opportunity. It’s right in the social networking space that I’ve been looking for. It’s also at a small company with lots of potential and a passionate team. It’s a gamble, but it’s a risk with sex appeal – I like the product, I like the team, I think the atmosphere will be interesting (to say the least), and I think the sky is the limit.

What’s exciting for me is that this is a site that has the potential for millions, if not tens of millions of users. I’m excited to help make that happen. I’ve been reading lots of books lately, and “The Tipping Point” has me turned on to the idea of learning how to get mass-market adoption, learning what sparks to light in order to create a critical mass.

I’m excited to be out in silicon valley. This is shit I only ‘heard’ about when I was in high school. It sounded sexy to me back then, all those dot-coms. Well this is web2.0, and there’s another boom going on out here. It’s moving MUCH FASTER. The VC’s are smarter though and I think we’ll see a lot more legitimate schemes come out this time around. I’m looking forward to being in the middle of it, meeting all the other twenty-somethings that are making the same plunge. Tech excites me. Seeing the founder of a website I love, is like celebrity spotting for me.

It’s taken a long time for me to get out here. I can remember talking about coming out here on my birthday. Back in November, I met a person who said to me “Sometimes you just have to jump and the net will appear.” That couldn’t be more true. I think it took me a long time to jump, around 3-6 months. Maybe next time it won’t be so hard.

I remember bungee jumping 5-6 years ago. I was standing on top of a crane on the edge of the vegas strip. It was night out and the strip was lit up. I was standing over a pool (like that would help if the cord broke.) The wind was blowing, I looked down, I got a pit in my stomach. I couldn’t make a noise. I knew in my head that I couldn’t do it. But I just closed my eyes and somehow was able to control my knees. I bent down and took a step forward, and just continued to fall. I really couldn’t make a noise at this point. I wanted to scream, but I couldn’t. I was stiff. At least I made the jump I thought. Then for the next 20 secs, only images of me hitting the pavement flew through my head. I couldn’t take in much of the outside world. I stretched the cord out, and bounce back up. My back hurt like hell, was it supposed to hurt this much? I regained some conscience thought. I proceeded to bob up and down like a paddle ball.

In the end, I was lowered to the ground where I had trouble standing up straight. I was dizzy. I was full of adrenaline. I knew I didn’t want to do that again.

Let’s see how this works out.