“You got a budget? I mean, where do you want to be? Give me a number here. You know, something to work with.”
I did. He glared at me. “You asked.”
He sighed heavily, and picked up his calculator and commenced to cyphering.
I suck when it comes to negotiations.
Hadrian's Wall
“Fancy a walk?”
It was a simple question, short and to the point. An e-mail from an acquaintance. Granted, the guy’s a lunatic but he’s got an oddly compelling personality — the kind of guy with which you can picture yourself spending an evening or sharing a cup of coffee.
Or a stroll.
“Sure,” I responded.
And that was that. Dan, you may know him from All That Comes With It, has organized a charity walk in support of the Joseph Salmon Trust and I am honored to have been asked to participate. Well, I was honored last June when he asked me. Now, I’m hearing a Talking Heads tune repeating on an endless loop, “My God, what have I done!!”
