Mid-life crisis?
Jun:16::2020
The trip is going great. Seb, Hasegawa, her husband and myself are just sitting around the fire having a little salmon sashimi that Seb was able to catch with his bare hands thanks to a couple pointers from Hasegawa-san.
Suddenly I am once again unable to foresee my near future... I'm faced with a decision to sell my company and begin a new venture, or stick with what I know and love and have built up for the past 11 years. I know which one scares me more... so I guess I already have my answer. (of course, this could all just be a mid-life crisis)
We had been discussing how, as much of an outdoors fanatic as Hasegawa-san is, she has never really gotten into sea-kayaking. Mainly because she doesn't own her own kayak, and trying to find and arrange a trip with an experienced guide always seems to be more trouble than it's worth (unless her company happens to be the guides newest client), especially when throwing her rock climbing gear into a bag instead only takes a minute. I mentioned an idea I had when I was younger, for a (world-wide?) Kayaking touring franchise. Ever since I can remember, there have been many local guides and instructors in all popular sea kayaking destinations. Local is great, but most people who take the packaged tours do not know much about the area, or what companies are fun, safe, and knowledgeable.
Somewhere along the line (I must have been about 25) I found myself wishing there was a kind of McDonalds for sea kayaking operations... where I know that the guides are personable, and the menu is the best, and the company doesn't do naughty things to the environment and animals' habitats. If there was one well known Sea Kayak touring brand that ensured that the local companies using their name conformed to certain quality standards, deciding would be much easier.
That idea disappeared someplace. (this was before we could search our long term memory drive) It came up again yesterday and I'm hooked. I can think of a million reasons not to do it, but I can also think of enough people who would be interested in investing in me and this idea, and more than a few friends who would jump at a chance to get on board.
I'm sure you all caught Tomoe's presentation... I can't seem to find a news service that doesn't have it ranked as their number one download. I haven't been able to get hold of her since yesterday either as she always has to shut down her thought-mail receiver after these conferences. Although the filters available now for us "regular" folk are usually only running at around .2% capacity, whoever makes a filter that can handle the kind of load she gets inundated with should have no problem marketing it to the rich and famous, or people in Tomoe's position. She'll be glad to get away from everything when she meets up with us tomorrow to finish off the last 4 days of our trip.
I uploaded more drawings to the Art progress page.
In case you can't figure out what is going on with these posts, I was asked recently how I envision my life at 45... a difficult question, and a view that changes everyday even if I can envision it. So, what better way to express it (and figure it out for myself) than to write my daily post for the year 2020, when I am 45.
There are some basic assumptions, I must make.. one of which is that by this time the Internet is not something you view in a browser... in fact it is a direct connection between our brains... esp = email. I can see what you see if you send me the digitalized sibgnals that your optical nerves send to your own brain. So, in effect this entire idea to post the future posts now doesn't really work, since by that time I sure don't need to sit at a computer and type.
Brian and his friend left for the last time today. They just got back from China last night and flew home today. Last night as we were finishing off a bottle of scotch, Brian guessed from the titles I had strewn around the pile of books that is my library, that I probably don't have any desire to work in somone elses' large comapny, even if I could be at the top... nice observation Brian... Although I knew this myself, and had finished a day earlier writing my 2020 journal where I have my own company, even though I knew this... it is always nice to be reminded and have it pointed out by someone else... just to keep myself in check.
I just heard that the closest thing to breast milk is white chocolate. That's interesting. I don't know why (I find it interesting), but I think it has something to do with beer.... In my expereince, the things that have huge followings of snobs who dream about them... beer, wine, chocolate... people will swear by "real" chocolcate, beer , etc... and often also to the meidcinal benifits to these things in their pure form. It doesn't suprise me therefore that chocolate would be the closest thing to breast milk, which obviously God created to be the healthiest thing for a baby (of course with all the crap and chmicals people eat now I have my doubts...)
Had some great luck today... I discovered last night that Diana KrallPleeeeaaasee check this out and listen to ALL of the sample tunes... this is great stuff. Every reviwer gives her 5 stars... was playing in Tokyo today. Both Tomoe and I are fans (Tomeo a bigger fan) and I was trying to figure out who else I know that could enjoy seeing the concert as much as Tomoe would have if she were here... lucky lucky, when I called to check on ticket availability, I found the concert was cancelled... the substitution date is in Oct when Tomoe will be back in Tokyo. It wll be a great birthday present for us.