[Dianna Vesta]

CJ, it’s nice to see you around. Whatever you do I hope that 2005 brings you much happiness and prosperity.

In the past I had always diversified between adult and non-adult. I ran my sites and worked for non-adult clients. In 2001 I was working for an adult company that basically went out of business and I had to scramble to make ends meet. I had three residents I was paying for and saw the adult biz going through yet another transition.

In your 40’s you tend to evaluate you life more and in doing that I decided I’d take a big risk and pursue a life long dream. My life was complicated enough so I’m not sure what I was thinking other then escape and release some of the bullshit. There comes a time when you just need to throw caution to the wind and let shit happen. I also saw no benefit in swimming upstream with adult. I don’t see it as a dying industry, not at all but I did see a lot of shit thrown into the air and no one really knew where it would all land. Your idea for a portal/network is one I touted for the last few years. Surfers are more educated and cautious. The same models will not work any longer.

Anyhow, so here I am doing the dream… scary at times when you shift your sails into the unknown. The adult biz was always my foundation for over 15 years I’ve worked in it. My adult sites sat there, still making money with no updates and care. I honestly don’t know where the traffic comes from. I bundled them up and tired to sell them but the offers I received were bullshit and I decided the couple hundred a week I got from them sitting there was worth more then the offers. I’m not exactly sure of what the future holds or if dot com domains will even be part of that future but I do know that adult internet is here to stay.

So I’ve teamed up with someone I’ve worked with here and there. I don’t have time to handle the day to day or promote programs with webmasters. I do like producing product and I feel that my niche is in demand and that I definitely have an eye for it. We’re hiring a webmaster right after the show to revamp the sites and turn them into Ezines, so to speak, plug-ins and working on a plug-in that offers chat with content. All fetish and femdom stuff. These will be available for webmasters free (with ads) or paid (without). What I always wanted to do before was more stories and more audio. I think if it’s done right it would appeal to men and women. With wireless the way it is going I think it will be a very hot product. I’ll basically handle operations.

With the rest of my time I’m sticking with trees! Hell yeah! The biggest problem I’m going to have this year is not having enough product due to the hurricanes. Everyone wants to replace trees and many growers lost a lot of trees. My sales are there tho. So I’ve got 18 acres, I’m hunting down a refi to dump some money into my tree biz, will start putting up greenhouses, grafting, growing and creating inventory for next year. I’d like to get heavy into the live herb biz here in Florida. It’s huge. Maybe dabble in specialty produce where the big bucks are. If Lady Law and Serge open a wine store I might have to convince them to add a little gourmet market there and truck them over some fine herbs and cheeses. Another hobby I’ve very interested in is making fine cheeses. Don’t laugh! I have two dairy goats right now and I’m just waiting for the little girls to get big enough to breed.

I got a bow flex and I started working out. This year my personal gardens go in and I’ll grow my own food. Like you I woke up with a serious fire under my ass. I’m ready to rock and fucking roll!


DV