So, as I mentioned yesterday, I'll be celebrating the one year anniversary of Good Night Mr. Lewis tonight at Greenhouse. Taking a friend's advice, I have gone vegan for three whole days, and if I get through today, I will have reached my all-time personal best. The reason is energy. I am assured that without all the bad things in the food I've been eating, I will find new levels of power. Since I've been DJing three days a week, writing this daily blog, and designing up a storm without more than four hours of sleep for awhile now, I think that's what a real healthy raw diet will allow me to do. Shoot, I may even run for office -- or maybe just start running.

I did not design Greenhouse, but I did do its basic layout, bar placements, etc., and I did put the money deal together. That was only a little more than a year ago, but it seems like a different era as we all know that those types of money deals have stopped happening for the most part. But in the last few weeks, we have seen what I can only assume is a return to confidence in the nightclub/restaurant industry as investors who have been sitting on the sidelines for months are now keeping my old Treo buzzing. Projects that have been put to sleep like babies are now waking up and crying for designers like my partner and I to get started.

We are currently in construction on three jobs. OPM, a new restaurant/lounge in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, by owners Oleg Vibe and Johnny Versace, will open next Friday -- this waterfront boite turned out real nice. Next, my partner Marc Dizon and I will open the Griffin where PM once banged, and I will give you a sneak peak and comments from Griffin management tomorrow. The Griffin name came after an exhaustive search -- I think naming a place is the hardest part of the process. And finally, we are in construction on the 146 Orchard Street restaurant with Camille Becerra attached. We have been approached by 11 different groups with interest in opening other places in the next 2-8 months, but the downside of this sudden return to form, of course, is that everyone wants everything at the same time, so sadly we actually have to turn down some of the work. What all of this means is jobs for lots of people a few months down the road. My business is like a canary in a coal mine. We're finally seeing a thawing of the frigid economic climate, and we're gearing up for the warm weather in the near future. Since this coincides with the end of this terrible winter and my party tonight. I plan to celebrate real real hard.