Next Report Will Be First Venture Launch...

Well, there's no more philosophy, or page holding posts I can put up here, so I'm declaring a 'ceasefire' until I'm ready to go with my first mortgage paying venture.  It may be a couple of months, or just a couple of weeks - I have three little ventures on the boil... all I can say, is that it will be before June!  So hold your breath...

When, oh When...

When, oh when is he going to get started on this project, I hear you ask.... Well, I've got two irons in the fire as we speak but I'm beginning to realise somthing:  YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN THE DELAYS WILL COME!   Yep, I thought I could just get an idea, get a web designer, negotiate a fee and away we go in a matter of days!  Not so clearcut... but what the heck, the fun is in the planning!  Won't be long now though....

Wait.

So when does the attack commence?
Wait.
How long must we wait?
Wait.
Aren't we losing valuable time... aren't we making  a big mistake?
Wait.
When they least expect, we attack.
Or something like that...

Somebody Got to the Bogman First...

Ha ha!  I may not be that crazy after all!  You will notice that one of my rejected longlist ideas is create a pet character made of bog (peat!).  My idea was to call this little fella, 'Pet Peat' and to literally cut gingerbreadman-like figures from wet bog and sell them to gullible idiots.  Well, I actually decided not to go with this idea because, well, it isn't my thing... but... lo and behold what do I see yesterday when purchasing a birthday gift for my good wife in a nice store in Galway?  You guessed it - this exact idea!  I couldn't believe that someone else had come up with the exact same ridiculous scheme!   Well, best of luck to the kindred inventor - this gives me  a bit more confidence that the daft ideas might just work!

Ten Alternative Mortgage Paying Methods.

1.  Sell anything I have a pair of:  eyes, ears, hands, feet and testicles.  Though perhaps I'll keep the last to myself.

2.  Invent a new really cool gadget that everyone wants called an ippydop.  Cost - €345.  Expensive but well worth it.

3.  Send emails, under a false address, to random strangers telling them that I am a billionaire Prince from Ugustanta and will lodge a truck load of money into their account, if only them give me their account numbers.

4.  Ask the IMF to bail me out.  Then tell them to feck off.

5.  Dress up in a ridiculous outfit and prance about singing a catchy pop tune under the pseudonym 'Ladie Gaga'.

6.  Set up a new bank called the Anglo-Breandán, then go bust, then ask the Government to pay the bill.

7.  Become an annoying celebrity chef who takes on a pet project - like making sure that every arsonist in Ireland channels their energy into cooking.

8.  Become a computer nerd, hack into bank files and delete my mortgage completely.  Then escape before James Bond catches me.

9.  Bring begging to another level.

10.  Stick my head in the sand and hope the damn thing goes away.

Right... decision time is coming...
My first big move is to cross off the long list, based on gut feeling - i.e cross off what I would be least interested in...

1. Write songs for Paddy's Day, Christmas and Euro Finals (change to write and promote song).
2. Produce a meditation CD based on the sounds of the west of Ireland.
3. Start up a Hillwalking Festival for Singles.
4. Pitch a TV programme/book that follows my progress.
5. Mass produce a bogman toy called 'Pet Peat'!
6. Host Céilí Dance Events for the over 50s.
7. Create products for the Irish diaspora market based on authentic Irish Language material.
8. A product that celebrates 'secret talents' within families.
9. A website for personalised blankets & trinkets.
10. Hold a midnight marathon somewhere in Ireland.
11. Organise a major rock concert.
12. Organise a major comedy event.
13. Host a technology exhibition.
14. Host a Santy's Castle.
15. Second Hand Private Car Sale.
16. A Health/Alternative Medicine Exhibition.
17. Bring the Alley Palley to Ireland!
18. Write a children's book.
19. An Irish toy exhibition.
20. A 'ghost estate' auction.
21. Host Irish students in our house.
22. A cake-makers website.
23. A website for car/mechanical parts.
24. A de-tox retreat.
25. Running Tours of Conamara.
26. Host a Géilí!
27. Yoga breaks.
28. Chakra belt.
29. Personalised Yoga Mats

Afraid of Nothing.

It occurred to me recently that this blog may be the result of a mid-life crisis.  Afterall, 37 plus 37 makes 74 - that used to be the average life expectancy for a man... Then, I thought better of that proposition, for many of my good friends are well over that age and looking fit and healthy.  So, I'll live til a hundred and we'll call fifty my midlife crisis time!  The truth is that I'm having a good deal more fun with this project than I though I would... for starters, it seems to be dragging me in directions I never thought it would lead - even as far as having a conversation with a sworn atheist about the meaning of life and the great human God that is money!  Now, I'm not an atheist, but I do agree that there may indeed be nothing in store for us after this life.  But my kind of nothing and his are two entirely different prospects! 

As far as I'm concerned nothing and everything are two sides of the one coin.  Let me explain... if you didn't have nothing, then how could you have anything at all?  Surely nothing holds everything in shape?  If I give you a box with nothing in it, doesn't that define the box!  Isn't space a whole load of nothing?  Imagine the universe without space - wouldn't it be one long hunk of rock!  This line of argument annoyed my atheist friend, who was adamant that finality meant no afterlife, no God.  Maybe he's right, but if everything can't exist without nothing, then surely nothing can't exist without everything?  So perhaps we do go to nothing for awhile, leading us to something else!

God, I hear you say, the poor boy has finally lost it!

And what has this got to do with the Pebble project?  Well, just as everything depends on nothing, my house is depending on my debt being paid!  Right now, it only belongs to me on a promise... and the promise lies in my ability to pay.  Now, if I could only get the forces of the Universe behind me to speed that process on!!!!