Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
I Meet Denny in One Month I've known Denny for years, but have not actually met him in real life. He started visiting my web site (daveheinzel.com) after a referral from my cousin Sarah's husband Jason. I think it's possible that Denny and I were both at their wedding, but I can't find him in any of my photos from that weekend.

Denny and I spent several months last year working on new websites in parallel. I ended up launching mine in early December (the updated daveheinzel.com), and I think Denny was at the point of starting over and going in a new direction. Working with him was pretty fun, and we had a good time sharing information and learning from each other.

Sometime in December we started kicking around the idea of making a website that would let people set up their own websites like his and mine. I had tried to do this a couple times before, but each time it fizzled out and never came to fruition. I was a little hesitant to start over again, but after working with him on our own sites, I knew that we'd be a good team for the job.

Over the next two months, we worked at a feverish pace to create Humzoo. We communicated exclusively through iChat and email. Although it was very time consuming to type out every single word, both methods of communication allowed us a little more time to formulate our responses than we would have with face to face meetings.

We've started a business together, have a joint bank account, a certified partnership in the state of North Carolina, and I've never even met the dude. We didn't actually talk on the phone until late February, and we've only spoken one more time since then.

So I figured it was a good time to meet the mysterious and potentially fictional character known as Denny Deaton. Courtney and I secured babysitting for a whole weekend in early April, and we're heading to North Carolina. It should be a good time, and I will fully document everything.