This evening I had a lovely catch up with Petra. She is a hairstylist running her own business and a friend of me since ages. Now given the fact that she seems to be anyway the only person in world being able to subdue my hair, I’m frequently enoying both … a friendly relaxed chat with a friend, as also getting a perfect haircut by someone knowing exactly how I like to wear my hair.

Talking about god and the world (means everything) I ended up in telling her about my "knights dinner" recently and was very surprised about her telling me that she has processed some new interest in medival markets.

You know such events? They are held here frequently with a lot of folks coming together playing knights, farmer or warrior … lol virgins or witches … in authentic dresses and wearing swords and stuff. Mostly it has some commercial background with handicraft men selling their stuff, but often it is also just for fun.

Now speaking about she told me that she feels really fascinated by that idea and really would like to do some "view" into this era …

Thinking about it, I’m sure I wouldn’t …. as long I can remember I was always interested in the opposite. The future with all it’s gimmicks, technical process, new techniques and science in general and first of all new cool inventions is what I would go for. Give me a working Stargate and I would use it - now, yet and immediately! 

But?! What time would you like to see my friend???

Since years I use GoDaddy as a reliable and cheap registrar. Once brought there by a suggestion of a friend I’ve never had anything to complain about their service …. until yesterday.

Having moved some domain I needed to update the nameserver info of this domain and entered the GoDaddy pages for it.
One domains needs renewing!! Yeah, I did know about anyway and it was right this domain I had moved before.

So I choosed renewing right out of the menue tree below the login and did throw the domain in into the shopping cart.
One domain for one year $US 9,99 - together $US 9,99 - total invoice $US 10,19 …. ummmmm

What the hell is that? I asked myself: Didn’t I do well enough at school? Did I miss something? Is this some kind of special American way to calculation I’m not aware about??

Anyway I decided to ignore that and therefore headed on changing the nameserver instead. Having done that I thought again about renewing the domain and did select it now out of the domain overview.

Perhaps the one year only? Lets try again with two years instead ….

One domain at $US 19,98, todays price $US 18,76, fee $US .40  - total invoice 12,83  ????  ….. gulp
Come on boy! What is that? You’re going to drive me crazy? What do they do? Using dices to estimate my total payment?

It needed me a while to I figure out is was a mix of  $US and Euro shown up here and everything was quit ok though.
But you believe me that I hate such inadequate business behavior? Pages not pointing out things clearly! grrrrrrrrr

ps: Right now my new gadget was delivered by UPS!! (It’s playtime now ….. yeaaaaaaaaaaah!)

Do you believe in horoscopes and prognostications?

Honestly I’m not much into such stuff! In general I think about that as nonsense and instead I deeply believe that everyone is responsible for his/her fate in general him-/herself. I feel happy or lucky when I want to be happy or I ensure having a personal positive attitude in general. for me it is about what I do or not do making the difference for me and others at the end.

So I guess it’s just easy amusement when I from time to time read or listen some horocope for me.

Now ironically last year I got a little horoscope calendar (one new horoscope a day) as a present from a client and right today I was in the mood to look on it.

So for today there is now written (I have to translate as for it is in German!):

Today the wheel of fortune is just spinning for you!
Something will happens today making your private and business life easier for a long time. Enjoy your life at the best, but take care not to spend all again too thoughtlessly.

So what to do now?! gulp

Just to sit down and wait? How will I recognise it or when it has happend? All these lots of questions now …….

The term “the man in the middle” is often used in a bad context speaking about those bad guys fishing or phishing for secret information. But in my today’s posting I want to write about it in a different meaning.

How often we are the man in the middle by doing work and dealing with two different parties at the same time ourself?

Providing services in general has become one of the most important business branches today. But dealing, what is often the case, with two unstructured individuals or organisations (what just double the trouble)  forces a lot of patience and well structured work and structures from any “service provider”.
I have to confess that “even I know it’s wrong” fall in that category of people using their brain as their most important tool to work with. Means I keep things store in my head and have a talent in doing (mostly) the right combinations.

Just I’m sure you know such situations in when both parties just “shovel shit” on you with both hands at the same time, your blood pressure goes up and your caffeine consume is reaching astronomically regions?

This morning I had such a situation. Now it is often not possible to change your customers or other providers you are relying on. What can you do?

Since a while I following an idea I had …. instead of turning grumpy and shout on them …. I just slow down, wait, don’t answer for a while and just await them recognising it! They are used in me doing my job and solving their issues, now doing not (at least for a moment) they start to ask!

And with this attention back on me it is far way easier again to tell, them that it needs a few more information or planning and well structured organising of things to accomplish work for them.

I’m not sure it is the right strategy … just it saves my energy!