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Kiss Me Thru The Phone

Personal thoughts

Its been a while since I wrote here.  Have had a crazy few weeks.  Rumors started about a month ago that we were going to have the 3rd set of layoffs at work and finally last Friday the layoff did happen. :(

As expected I was on the list of the layoffs but will continue to work there for 2 more months.  Its pretty amazing to me how fast we imploded within.  We went from 95 to 420 back down to about 100 again in a short period of time.  For the first 2 years coming home before 10PM I would feel embarrassed and ashamed as my team was all still at work.  We all worked so hard and gave up SO much of our lives away for this company but unfortunately so many dreams had to come to an end.

I feel like I have one more startup type of environment left in me and after that I would be only able to work at a big company.

The good days at Spot Runner were the BEST and I will forever miss them.  And the group of people I met and became friends with many are wonderful.

Such is life  Time to move on.


Intro

At Chappellet Winery Hello Helllo!!!  Guess with this first post I will do a quick introduction of myself and my blog.  My name is Azat Aslanyan and I’m the Director of Engineering for a pretty cool startup in the advertising business in SoCal.  90 Plus Wine is a company I started couple of years ago with the idea that when I have some money I will open up a small bar that will serve reasonably priced highly rated wine.

Besides fine wine I also love food and cooking and in this blog I plan to talk about both Food and Wine and different and interesting combination. I cant say I’m vegetarian because I do eat fish nowadays but I have not had chicken or meat for 16 years now.  However I do cook everything for family and friends and the recipes I will list and will talk about will cover all kinds of food.  I also love fine dining and plan to cover some of the restaurants I visit over time.  I also travel and have always said that much of my travel revolves around food(I call them gastronomic holidays) and when I travel will write about that as well…

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