Well it has almost been a week since I blogged last and lots has been happening. I have been busy getting my business plan together, getting interest from protential customers and generally trying to make the thing work. I have now got a logo which I think looks fairly good and gives an impression of what I am about. I need to now register the business name and get the domain name as well.
I am currently writing the help files for my GhostAdmin Version 2 which is the e-commerce cart used on Southern Cross Country. Once finished I can charge the job out and get rid of my debt finally. The funny thing about the debt is once I get it rid of it I need to get a business loan to get off the ground properly.
But it is less than before, so I should be about to handle it fine.
This week is the mad finishing off the business plan and making sure I have at least one venue to trail the service out. Fingers crossed… I have a meeting with Cafe Elaia on Tues morn about that. They seem real interested when I talk to them. I really hate calling people out of the blue about the business idea. My worst point is talking to people to try sell them a product. I am fine if they approach me about it, but if I have to appoarch them and convince them they need it… ugggg… it one of the things that really makes me nervious. But it will all be cool.
Yuki went back to Japan on Wednesday morning. A whole month of Japanese madness in our house was fun and really not helpful for my business plan. But it was all cool, now I have somewhere to crash in Japan and show me around.
I am really excited about the busines taking off (it will damn it) and getting away from centerlink bollocks. It’s going to be great to be finally independent again, even if it means stress and nightmares.
Finally finised the 4th book in Stephen King’s Dark Tower Series. So far my least favorite of the books. Had some really cool parts in it and it did make the overall story more interesting, but it had the typical drawing out feel that King has in many of his other books. As he said in the epologe, he was very scared of writing the book due to some reasons and I think that is why it reads (or listens) a little poorly to the others so far. I am enjoying to journey thou. Roland is such an interesting character, I just wish the rest of his books felt as good as this series. I used to read a lot of his books, but gave up after a while. They all felt way to similar, like he had gotten a fomula that worked and ran with it superimposing different characters and monsters etc into it. I do love his short stories thou, as he can’t do that in them. I think this series works for me as it is completely different form his other works, and the fact that the first book in the series, was his “first” book and the others have been written over the last 20+ years, make it feel so different yet familar. So I’m onto the last book and hope that it improves. The problem with that is, the next 2 books are not published yet. So once I finish the 5th book, I am going to be waiting like everyone else. Ho well, there is alway other things to read and listen too.
Watched Dr. Strangelove again last night to show Lex and Sooki. Sooki feel asleep, Lex didn’t understand it. I think I need to stop asuming that people have what I consider common knowledge. Like 20th century history and current world events etc. I also need to get my head around that most people don’t find the same things funny as I do. I can be a right arsehole without knowning it till after the fact, especially when it comes to movies, music, anime and other things. I only realise after the fact most of the time. I need a 5 sec delay in my reality boardcast, so I can assess my words and actions (this is a reference to this years superbowl performace, for people that don’t know). I hardly ever get told that I do stuff like that, but I know I do it. I need to stop it, it is really pissing me off. I think I will just start by trying to shut up. My apologies to everyone I have and will proberly do this to in the future.
It is weird to me that I am one of the only people I know my age that, not so much enjoys, but finds it necessary to know what is happening it the world. I do like to watch the news at night (SBS is the fav) and see images of things I have read on BBC online and stuff. I want to know about the stupid suicide bombers in Iraq and other places. I want to know that Bush has pissed of many people with his ad campaign. I find this and other things reasuring that I am not mad, and the world is working, a state of flux, like it alway has been. I never get scared, I never get happy. I just sit neutral to it all. Like a god watching from afar with no control except to change the channel. I like being able to walk into a movie, or doco and think this happened and you show me that and another piece of the puzzle put together in my swimming mind. It’s the next best thing to travelling to me. People say, “It’s all so horrible”, and yes it is, but that is nature. People watch animal docos and see death and birth and living and they don’t go say that. They say, “they are animals, it’s what they do”. Well we are animals, it what we do as well. I don’t like getting into debates about right and wrong. I have my opinions and don’t think I should push them on others. I just like the flow of information about the world around me. I find it really hard to understand people that don’t want to know things. An example is my flatmate works to work every day and passes a chemist shop. He had been doing it for months and I asked him to go get some tablets for Sooki one day. He asked where from and told him the drug store he walks past every day. He ddin’t even know it existed. I was amazed. I think people are more confortable not knowning about stuff, and find it easier not to look around and learn, than opening their eyes. I too have blind spots, and I try to look at them, especially when I get told about them. I think I will never understand not wanting to learn… how do people not get bored? How do people know that they are fine and things are not coming to change that fact? It’s all to hard to understand, guessing what goes though my cats minds is easier.
Current Music Selection Playing: Wolf’s Rain Soundtrack II