I stayed up way too late last night listening to music, and this morning woke up way too early. They are finally building sidewalks in my neightbourhood (huzzah) but for a few weeks at the end of the summer, some early wake ups for me.
Getting up early was good, I had an interview with BCIT for the degree program I want into. Education is a bizarre industry. I have to apply, jump through hoops and basically beg to write them a cheque. Maybe not so different than the nightclub business or Apple computers… but still, seems weird.
Needless to say, i rocked that interview so now Coral and I will need to decide if BCIT’s Bachelor of Technology is a better bet than Applied Communications (or whatever they call it now) from Royal Roads… or maybe a third option… or maybe the forth option, Cooking School!
I think I like BCITs the best, because it is a management AND technology degree. Those two skills are things I could use in broadcasting or else where. learning how to talk to gooder and writing press releases? Not so much.
The advantage of Royal Roads might be that I can finish sooner if I work like crazy steroided ant.
What I have been the most excited about lately is thinking about three business ideas that I have.
What I want to do… maybe after the wedding, is brew my own root beer and create a brand and sell my root beer. back in maybe 2002, while slaving away at Starbucks, I got it in my head to brew root beer. I bought some books on home brewing, and even some bottles, buckets and general kit to try and brew some… but life threw some curve balls (and I ran out of money), then I moved to Victoria. I put all the brew equipment in the storage of my apartment in Fernwood… and promptly lost it all. Except for the books on how to brew and some recipes.
Lately I have had to vision to do it again. My holy grail would be a very dry, alcoholic root beer… mmm, it should be possible. But there is all sorts of stuff that I could put in my brew. The fun would be creating a product that is good, then seeing if I can sell it!
What I might actually do is start a mobile disco business… DJing weddings and parties and the like.
What I have a fantasy of doing, is throwing one off dinning events. Finding a nice outdoor site and hiring or renting the equipment and having an outdoor dinner. Finding a kitchen space not being used, a local chef and booking a one off dinner party. Finding an ingredient and designing a dinner based around it. Finding a supplier or industrial space, dressing it up and serving dinner n the site. Fun, unique, delicious dining experiences… I might even get a chance to cook some stuff! or at least learn from the chefs.
My friend works for a local catering company and it sounds like they could really use some energy and more importantly business, so the opportunity might be there.
That is a few things I have been thinking about lately on top of my usual brain swirls of music, babies, wedding plannings, broadcasting and podcasting.
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Go with yourself.
The Morning After 
i am very interested in this root beer plan.
maybe we should have a root beer-off. ty and i will make some and you and coral make some and we’ll hang out one night and drown ourselves in the delicious nectar that is root beer.
the dinner party idea is cool. i think it definitely has potential.
i was discussing a similar idea with a friend about making and selling meals that are predone and portable. i actually have a client for some coming up. she’s a cancer patient with a family and is worried about making thanksgiving dinner since she’s low on energy, so i’m going to premake it so she just has to reheat.
i think the idea could also translate to working moms etc.
but i’m off on a tangent.
as for school… good for you. whatever you decide will be helpful to your future. although i still lean towards BCIT just because it has a better reputation as a school.
also, if you do a mobile dj service, let me know.
i’ll throw some work your way for weddings and stuff if i can.
ha, nice. Not sure if I’ll travel to the mainland for gigs, but I guess if the money is there.
I think in reality, mobile DJ will fire up first as I already do DJ and have a lot fo the equipment.
The dinner events would be fun, not a full time work thing, but more as a fun unique thing to do I figure mostly with friends… but that might be something you could do in Van as Pink Star? Find crazy environments to have one off dinner parties?
Boozy rootbeer…I’d try that. I think you have a bunch of great ideas but my fav is cooking school 🙂 I’d do it myself if I had any patience/talent/love for cooking.
cooking school is a future dream I think. The short term focus needs ot be a University degree and a business I can launch this year. so it looks like BCIT and mobile DJ for now.
mm… boozy root beer. Which does exist in a cooler sorta way, like they take root beer pop and add booze and market that puke… but I want to naturally brew an alcoholic root beer… like beer. yum yum (I hope).
Oh highschool, Rootbeer Schnapps.
I’m trying to get into school right now too. I’m trying to get my brew masters.
Ah. Okay, if I’m pickin’ up what you’re puttin’ down then there’s a difference between root beer soda and root beer beer – and it’s all mind boggling. Would a root beer beer have the same roots as a root beer soda – I guess that’s my question. I’d dig a root beer beer – not so much the cooler concept – it makes my head hurt even pondering that next morning. Hmm, well, we’ll buy if you ever sell – sounds tasty.
yeah, like root beer the pop is a sweet syrup made to taste “like” root beer and cut with soda water and yum yum from your grocer’s cooler.
Actual root beer is derived from herbs and roots (and sugar and all sorts of yummy stuff) and brewed very similar to beer.
In fact, a true root beer will have a small alcohol content… but not much. However I believe that theoretically I could get an alcohol content that would be close to a beer? I hope. You’d think if it was possible and tasty, someone would be doing it… but yeah, I’d like to try.