Gardening guy
2006-03-26 13:08 GMT
I haven't been writing lately much. One major excuse for the
past week and a half has been Bob's tour in America, which has
leaved me with bigger responsibilities than I first thought.
Yes, for those of you who don't know, I am currently employed
by my longtime friend and comrade monkey Bob Frozen. This week
was pretty good considering that I managed to convince a
mislead client to buy our services with three times the money
they had estimated.
For this misleading is hard to pinpoint any particular
scapegoats. But for all of you who'll have to negotiate and
close deals, I strongly suggest sending proper proposals to
your clients before talking about closing the deal. You'll talk
about the price and convince them with other things than by it,
instead of first giving the impression of being cheaper than
others and then, on a critical moment of closing, broke it.
But thats enough ranting about working. Now I can talk about
benefits. Biggest benefit in any line of work, except being in
cast of Baywatch, is getting paid. (In Baywatch it is probably
getting laid.) With the money one gets from sacrificing his
free time, health and sleeping rhytm, one can do whatever one
wants. This one wanted to decorate, since living without any
furniture except bed and couple of bookshelves gets too spartan
in the long run.
This ment a whole day trip to different shops. Although it is
easy to despise people who buy from Ikea, it had to be admitted
that it is an easy way to buy cheap crap. Of course you can
expect that there probably isn't any items that would last very
long or would look cool after two years, but with limited
budget it is an easy choise. After one hour walkabout through
the whole fucking store, I walked out with couple of cushions
and a mirror.
After another supermarket I had added my cart a table for
living room and ordered three bar stools. After that I realised
how I might have to pay the rent too. At that point the tour
ended after investing 350€ on furniture and accessories
(there is still one bookshelf to build..).
I'll add a picture of my living room at its current state as
soon as camereas batteries recharge.
Joe