Peopleocity

"I love acting. It is so much more real than life."
- Oscar Wilde

I think I'll start my first painting tomorrow. Of course meaning I'll sketch a bit, first on paper and then on the canvas I intend to use. I explained the general idea in my previous post, so I won't go there again. However, I am now considering a few ideas to change the idea slightly. One of the paintings will be a bit darker, mostly with red, orange and a bit of yellow colours. I'm considering putting a cherry tree in the middle of that one, as the only object besides the "ground, sky and silhouette" combination which is the themes of both paintings. For the other painting, which will mostly be in lighter blue and green colours with a dark/black silhouette, I'm considering a big glass cube - of course difficult to get right, but with some luck it could be nice :)



"He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met."
- Abraham Lincoln

I'm listening to a football match on the web radio (can't stay away [in the middle of this sentence the first goal of the match came, and it was a jamaica man doing it in his first match from start] - [Before finishing that goal comment the home team scored another - I wish I had gotten home earlier, so I could've gone there]), and the commentator is rrrreally boring. It's like the guy has no training at all. He doesn't alter the pitch of his voice at all, speak slow and low, and seems not to care about what's happening at all.

I had promised myself to stop listening to the match if the first half of the game didn't end with a home lead. The goals came in the two last minustes of the first half... I guess there's no workout for me today (except for the 1.5 hour walk I've already had, but that doesn't count does it?)

While walking from L (I don't write full names online without asking the persons permission) today, I reflected a bit on the difference of people. The thoughts went on the road of comparison, looking at L and S - the both I work with/for, making web sites, database solutions etc. I came to think about how L always looks very proper, with expensive looking clothes, greeting by shaking hands and basically "going to work" looking like a business man - even though he works from home. However, instead of being what he looks like - the business man - he is a very relaxed man and easy to talk to. As an example, you could see him get excited about a new computer game he got (he got one today that he had ordered, and was pretty happy, to say the least), or probably even a board game.

As a comparison, we have S, who basically dresses like a sportsman - always being ready to go out for some disc golf or other sports. Sometimes when I get to his place (also working from home, so there's not only differences), he simply opens the door when I buzz downstairs, and I'll let myself and setup my gear while he's putting on coffee. So they are opposite in the greeting part, where both basically act the way they look. However, when it comes to work, S is less relaxed, talking to his computer and doing a lot of administrative work. This is all ok of course, but what makes him the opposite of L, is for example that he keeps a weekly schedule for major activities, which also includes a dinner plan for the week. At the same time he (S) often ask how many hours I've worked on certain projects to update his own numbers, while L basically never asks, but instead makes up an estimate (which I guess he updates after getting the invoice)...

I could of course find examples from more people - but I simply found these two very clashing, since they sometimes work together and seem to have known eachother for a long period of time. Even though the advanced knowledge they posess is in slightly different fields ('ms access databases' versus 'asp questionnaires and other sites'), it's still commonly seen as "programmer/developer/computer geek" fields, meaning one would expect the same kind of people, at least when knowing eachother....

Either way, today I sent an invoice each to them, amounting a nice little sum which I'll be happy about getting :-)

Signing off with kisses and a squirrel who misses Hanni!