Law papers and artsy shit....where's the biz?

Ok, it’s like February 26 and I haven’t posted a blog since February 18th!! What’s the world coming to? And the simple truth of the matter is that although I was busier when I was in Koh Tao on a daily basis, time simply seems to fly by here. On top of that, I seem to have more personal demands on my time then I felt in Koh Tao. Here, I have a pup who constantly wants to play relentless throw the ball, a missus who needs dropping off and picking up from work, friends who want to catch up…damn, things just flit by.

You know one of the things I really miss? The friggin’ moped. I think I want a moped for Toronto. Sure it can be icy, snowy and generally blah, but I miss the ability to zip around town (well, island, but hey, you’s gots to go with the flow). Plus, I’d be doing the environment a favour, right? Those little buggers are uber-efficient on gas consumption.

Anyway, need to win the lottery first. Need the cash. Damn, I thought I was going to win that 48 million last weekend….stupid 14 other people who beat me to the punch. My day will come, curse you, it’ll come!!

Talking of finances leads me onto work…..ahhhh, the game continues…..so many little things to work on, it seems that I constantly get lost in the trees due to an inability to see the woods…..

I also think that Peter and I are going to have a difference of opinion when it comes to website design. Originally, we were thinking of designing our own website, putting the rudimentary building blocks in place and then passing the project of to a web guru who could tidy things up a bit. I am now thinking that’s a silly buggers approach to the whole issue. As I see it, we do a bit of work online in trying to create a website and then pass it off to a techie who’ll end up telling us that they can’t work with what we have done and give us the product we are looking for. Which’ll mean that they will have to do all of the work over again.

So, I think we need to hire somebody to build the site from the ground up. We give them our ideas and absolutely necessary content and let them do the hard work. The shitty side of it all is that it’ll cost us.

The other problem is that Peter really likes this website: www.aquariusscuba.com, whereas I think it is simply too busy and, bluntly, too ugly. I want a website that is sleek, techno-cool and hip. I’m thinking minimalist on the opening page with links to the various pages that emerge from the page when you scroll over them. I am also thinking that having a super-fine and relevant video playing in the middle of the screen is a good eye catcher and will let people know they have hit diving Nirvana Toronto. But I also know that Peter can be a stubborn bugger, so there’s a little anticipation of fireworks on the horizon.

Now, I probably shouldn’t admit this, because it is likely to get the missus all up in arms, but I think I am a little blue right now about not being in Koh Tao and able to dive. I really really miss the heat and the water. It’s not even ridiculously cold here, but I am now hooked on getting out on a boat and into the deep blue. I feel like a fish out of water here in Toronto, even though I have my pup, my creature comforts and my missus. Anyway, there’s not much that can be done about it at the moment.

So what I should be doing is getting this business up and off the ground so that we can get clients and then get clients who want to go to the Caribbean, meaning I get to go down too to take them diving…..ahhh the hopes I have!! Except I can’t do much more than I have been until Peter gets back from his humungous honeymoon!!

And I need to stop getting sidetracked….an age-old issue of mine. I now have a couple of wicked good ideas for an artsy project I have been mulling over….but won’t reveal more until it becomes somewhat more of a reality. And on top of that, I have had an idea for a decent legal comparative law paper. Not sure if I could get it published, but I think I will research and write it anyway. It’s sort of related to my new field of employ as it is….a comparison in the applicability of liability waivers and releases in extreme sports. Every time you take a scuba course, you’re required to sign such a release, but really, what efficacy does such a document have? I know that for rugby it only provides a club or an association limited protection, so how much does it differ for sports like sky diving, scuba diving, bungee jumping, etc.?

I know, I know, I can hear you already….get focussed. I’m working on it….