ROADTRIP

Oh yeah, tomorrow is road trip time.

To recap, Flying to Wellington, meeting manager of large museum based retail store for catch up, hanging with friends and going to a crazy meat place, here it is here...

Driving back to Auckland and completing an audit of tourist track retailers for a Tourism New Zealand project.

This is going to be sweet, I've loaded my mp3 player full of hard dance via lisa lashes, sweet trance via above and beyond: anjuna beats, wicked trance via armin van buuren, crazy extreme dance music via dj samination and wicked rolling tech step and drum and bass via john b.

This is going to rock, if no one accepts AMEX, I'm fu**ed.

I'll keep you posted on my progress...

Aural Sex

Speaking of some funky trance tracks, we have a primo selection of electronic music perfectly manicured to a retail experience, some people have pianos, some have the radio and some play cheesy house. We play a mixture of cultured chill out, epic but not clubby trance, sexy jazz core drum and bass and it's all mixed up with interlude-like sweet New Zealand music.

The ultimate story

So I am pursuing my hobby of translating old languages and came across this...

Et cum aperuisset sigillum septimum, factum est silentium in cælo, quasi media hora.
Et vidi septem Angelos stantes in conspectu Dei: et datæ sunt illis septem tubæ. Et alius Angelus venit, et stetit ante altare habens thuribulum aureum: et data sunt illi incensa multa, ut daret de orationibus sanctorum omnium super altare aureum, quod est ante thronum Dei. Anulos qui animum ostendunt omnes gestemus! Et ascendit fumus incensorum de orationibus sanctorum de manu Angeli coram Deo. Et accepit Angelus thuribulum aureum, et implevit illud de igne altaris, et misit in terram, et facta sunt tonitrua, et voces, et fulgura, et terræmotus magnus. Et septem Angeli, qui habebant septem tubas, præparaverunt se ut tuba canerent. Et primus Angelus tuba cecinit, et facta est grando, et ignis, mista in sanguine, et missum est in terram, et tertia pars terræ combusta est, et tertia pars arborum concremata est, et omne fœnum viride combustum est. Et secundus Angelus tuba cecinit: et tamquam mons magnus igne ardens missus est in mare, et facta est tertia pars maris sanguis, Et mortua est tertia pars creaturæ eorum, quæ habebant animas in mari, et tertia pars navium interiit. Et tertius Angelus tuba cecinit: et cecidit de cælo stella magna, ardens tamquam facula, et cecidit in tertiam partem fluminum, et in fontes aquarum et nomen stellæ dicitur Absinthium; et facta est tertia pars aquarum in absinthium: et multi hominum mortui sunt de aquis, quia amaræ factæ sunt. Et quartus Angelus tuba cecinit: et percussa est tertia pars solis, et tertia pars lunæ, et tertia pars stellarum, ita ut obscuraretur tertia pars eorum, et diei non luceret pars tertia, et noctis similiter. Et vidi, et audivi vocem unius aquilæ volantis per medium cæli, dicentis voce magna: Væ, væ, væ habitantibus in terra de ceteris vocibus trium Angelorum, qui erant tuba canituri.

Isn't that nice.

Can you see the stupid bit?

Of course you can, after the part that talks about, being before the throne of god. Then it reads:

Anulos qui animum ostendunt omnes gestemus!


Translated as 'Lets all wear mood rings'

Project Management: A cheap way to save five salaries

Sure the title sounds are little pessimistic, or perhaps my new responsibilities are too much? Certainly in my case, it's the latter. However, from what I have discovered on this particular project, my new role encompasses the following:

1. an accountants role,
2. a marketers role,
3. a buyers role,
4. a building managers role, and
5. a general managers role.

No shit.

I've constructed the entire set of financial based on 'sweet-f-a' ('sweet-f-a' I hear you ponder? - It's a kiwi term that means sweet f**k all, or simply, jack.) and five headline figure amounts.

I've had to figure out the market, listen to others and then refigure out the market and then try to quantify how much these people are willing to spend based on data from the New Zealand tourism board.

I've then had to figure out in a general sense how to spread the headline numbers over many categories based on 1) sweet f a, 2) guesses, and 3) an almost totally unrelated business.

I'm also applying for building consent, building permits and trying to find suitable tradespeople to do and complete the job within the ridiculous time frame.

And, trying to get everyone focused along the way.

I have respect for project managers across the world. Good thing that I am part of a team on this one.