Somewhere Near Lizard Lick
I’m sitting here in Wendell today, a little hick corner of North Carolina with the nearest towns being that of Lizard Lick and Zebulon. No kidding, check a map. There is a little Ford store here that we manage and it has a couple of PCs down. No problem. So I head on out from Cary and enjoy the sunshine as I drive out into the country, the whole time thinking about how I’m going to design my new company.What is my new company? No clue yet, but I’m really not happy working for someone else. I have always enjoyed the concept of providing a product and living on the profits of the sale of said product. Sounds easy enough… but I’m not that naïve. Often times when I enter an establishment I find myself considering what it would be like to live the lifestyle of a storeowner, merchant, restaurant owner, or some other business owner. There is something empowering about success based on your level of service or quality of product. It seems like the proper way to measure what your worth really is, and it gives you the ultimate control in affecting your own future. You gotta love capitalism.
Too bad I couldn’t figure out a way to capture and sell this pollen every year! There are tons of pine trees in this area and they give off a heavy sprinkling of yellow pollen every year around April. You have to see this stuff to believe it. It can coat anything and turn it a powdery yellow. When it rains, there are little yellow rivulets that run along the gutters and through the streets. I don’t have allergies so I’m not affected by it that way but I can tell you that the stuff gets in your eyes and just makes them feel very dry and sticky. If you have contacts, look out! Some people just have to disregard their lenses until the season ends, which is usually just a few weeks.
Time to go kick this PC’s butt and get on out of here. It’s not playing nice so I’m going to re-image the hard disk drive and call it done. More later.
posted by Bonzai @ 2:19 PM
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