Consulting the Magic 8-Ball

So, things are getting pretty serious now. Nate and I have decided to form a Partnership called "The Sammitch Company." TheSammitchCompany.com domain has been secured through GoDaddy. I will be filling out the articles of Incorporation for us today and we'll have to go open a bank account for the company and hook up a PayPal account to it. The Sammitch Company will have only one project for the time being. I'd be lying if I said the following thought never occurred to me: "Why not other creative collaborations in the future?" It's not as if this Steelers song is a once-in-a-while thing -- the one creative idea we happened to have this year. Nate and I are both the kind of people that can't get through the day without dreaming something up -- it's just the way our minds work. So why not future projects under The Sammitch Company name? I could definitely see it happening and now we'll have a corporate structure under which these ideas could flourish.

Here's my favorite part of our business agreement so far -- Nate's idea, I have to admit. It is suggested that in any business agreement between partners who have agreed on a 50/50 balance of power that there is a period after which a third-party arbitrator is called in to cast the deciding vote. We're actually going to write it into the agreement that after a period of time (maybe we make it 15 days instead of 30) that we call in an arbitrator -- namely, the Magic 8-Ball. It will cast the final ballot. If the answer comes up as "Maybe" then we wait another 15 days. If the answer comes up as "Maybe" again, we drop the idea we're working on entirely, accepting it as a word from God that we're not to go forward. Beautiful!

I think talk of money and business agreements makes me REALLY uncomfortable and I'm not sure why. Nate brings such levity to the whole discussion, though. A Magic 8-Ball makes the final decision? Brilliant. It really highlights how ludicrous it is to get hung up over stuff that ultimately has no bearing on my life. I lived before the Steelers song and the Sammitch Company and I'll live after it. I'll live whether the song takes off or goes on the trash heap. I'll still be happy. I'll still laugh 100 x a day regardless. Why get so hung up and Jerky over this stuff??

The website should be up in the next few days. More news to come...

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