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someone to cook for me. And I need friends so that me + my lover can have couples to do things with. I need a lover who can inspire me as Chip once did.

I thought I might the freedom of time to lie in the sun/go to the beach/play tennis whenever I wanted. But I can at least cut out the beach during the week since it is not fun. I had good times there during the week last spring but as I acclimated myself to O.C. it lost its glamour. But I still enjoy the freedom of time this summer to assess myself. But all my friends work during the week so I may as well too.

And one more thing which bears crucial importance: Don't work so hard that you come to hate it. BALANCE [Noted later in red] Perhaps via a Diary of play! 5/89 [/note] work with play. Over and over this concept recurs here but it is so important. My reasons for leaving MicroSoft were 1) more money + 2) more responsibility. But actually they could have supplied these as much as I needed. The real reason in retrospect is that I didn't have enough fun to impress me to stay in Seattle. There were adequate good times given that I was going to HBS, but if I ever worked that hard again, I would probably come to hate the work again.

One last key goal is an improved (more accurate, quicker, larger)