IT’S ALL IN THE STARS
Despite protests from my
ardent fan base – that now numbers twelve lonely souls – surrounding myself with the inspirational Feng
Shui to craft a proper rant on the current conditions
at the Chateau is not as simple as pouring myself a scotch and lighting a
smelly candle. First there actually has
to be something going on that is worth highlighting, second it has to have a
humorous element or at least an element that I can assault with hyperbole, third
it has to appeal to at least four of the twelve aforementioned disturbed souls
and finally the ice machine in the refrigerator needs not to be clogged up so
there is sufficient cubage for the cocktail.
Now that 75 percent of those conditions have been met, I guess I can’t
put this off any longer.
I know I have mentioned The
Chateau in the past but since it is a central player in this passion play you
need to know a bit more about it. This Gothic Victorian is almost 100 years old
and, try as I will, still has some of its original dust! We spent more than a couple of years and tens
of thousands of bucks bringing this gem into the 20th century just
in time for the 21st to roll around but we love it, uneven floors,
cracked plaster, half stripped staircase banisters and all. When we began this
adventure neither of us had a clue that one fine day the Chateau would also
become the “office” for both of us but that is what it has morphed into over
the past few years.
The appeal of a home-based
business like He Who Must Race’s Wolf
Creek Racing includes things like the commute – which consists of navigating
two staircases or one and a half staircases and a brief stroll in the back yard
to the garage; an inexpensive wardrobe that trends toward sweats, tee shirts
and tennie’s and finally the ability, via various communication
devices in various locations about the house, to be able to respond 24/7 to his
clientele and run a global business from a hammock on the veranda, all while
dealing with some of the more interesting characters that inhabit cyberspace.
The downside of a home
based business is primarily that the business never leaves home. For those who
get up each day put on a white shirt, jacket and tie, do that commute thing and
search in vain for a decent cup of coffee that doesn’t cost $4.00, I’m sure
that sounds a bit petulant but as you read on, it will become abundantly clear
what the real issues are. You see, I’m a Libra so I’m in constant search of
balance and symmetry in all things that invade my environment. He Who Must Race is not a Libra, which
means that there is nothing more important than a good business deal. So while “He” does a pretty good eye roll as I go
about the daily straightening of the pictures on the staircase, he demonstrates
little patience for my admittedly irritating habit of stacking and inevitably
re-stacking his incoming boxes piling up in the foyer to create the least
visually offensive effect possible. All I see is a mess……………………..all he sees is
a buck!
A good day for me is one
in which the number of boxes leaving
the house exceeds the number of boxes coming into the house, because I know
that the equating number of boxes that are doing little more than balancing the
earth on it’s axis are squirreled away somewhere in the basement. Since I
really can’t wrap my mind around a sudden shift in the rotational incline of
our planet I choose to tolerate the Chateau’s role as a balancing container
facility, a huge responsibility in the greater scheme of things. A not so good day is when a common carrier
other than UPS, Fed Ex, USPS or DHL arrives and starts to lower the back gate
to remove a container about the size of a space station. Two things are about to happen. There is
about to be a significant seismic shift at this latitude and longitude that I
have no control over and “He” is
about to tell me an impossibly long story about a deal he just couldn’t refuse.
So much for Feng Shui.
(Yep, I’ve been thrown
under the UPS truck yet again!!.......Editor)
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