Archive for June 2008
Cars + PORN
As promised here are a few pictures of my drive and the cars on it. I know they’re dirty and I know one isn’t working… There is in fact a 3rd car on the drive which also doesn’t work! Marvelous.
Back of a broken car
Bloody Cars
What a bloody morning! I got up, was running nearly on time and the sun was shining. It was set to be a good start to the week. But then at 8.15am on the M4 my car died. The radiator hosing exploding right off with radiator still attached, the engine losing all pressure and won’t start now, completely knackered.
The rest of the day was spent sat on the side of motorway, then sat in a garage, then sat in a recovery vehicle in non moving traffic on the motorway to being sat on the train, to finally being sat in a car at the end of the day.
The only upside to the day is the spare car I have borrowed is a Lotus. Looks like I may have found an engine to drop in to my car too…. fingers crossed!
I’ll stick a photo on tomorrow of the cars collecting on the drive.
Oh, I did get confirmation of my little deal too - so atleast the went smoothly!
New Opportunity
Things are rolling forward nicely with everything I am doing at the moment. And in the last week another opportunity presented itself to me. As a result I am now 50% share holder in a new company - Splash Solutions Limited.
It is not your typical sort of investment, a world away from my usual work and it is in an area which I know very little about to be honest. However I am investing in a young entrepreneur who will give 100% to this, and with some money and guidance it has every chance of success.
For me its really the first off-line company I’ve been involved in since my early days, and I am glad to be diversifying a little bit. It is also somethign which unlike most of my ventures will be very quick to turn in to profit as there is no long development schedules.
The only risk here is the unknown, I have no guarantee that I will make my money back, no guarantee that it is a value proposition. But what I do get is a new distraction, the chance to guide and support a hard working individual with a unique idea, and an influence in giving it every chance I can to be a success.
So seemed like a perfectly logical thing to do, embrace not fear the unknown. As soon as all the official paper work is complete, and the website is up I’ll post a link on here and add updates.
