Startup

I’m ever the procrastinator. The move has been set for next Friday and I’ve spent most of the week reading, handling a server sales and only in the depths of the night do I start drawing the plans for Thoth.

This took till 6am on Wednesday. The problem is with Ikea. They have like 10 ranges of shelves, ok, my budget only allows the 3 lowest priced ones. It’s the layout - how can I balance 3D-whitespace with enough storage for a sizable little store? Anyway, that’s what kept me up all night.

Here are some of my personal favorites of the now-finalized floor plan:

1. Private reading armchairs at the end of each aisle.
2. Two reading spots by the main window
3. Counter-top with bar stools for, ahem, smokers (there’s a roller blind that you’ll need to lower so it doesn’t bother the rest)

Right now, I’m only expecting friends to visit the joint so there’s absolutely no worries about the place being too jammed. It was good to start doing this without thinking about money. And as far as Thoth’s operations goes, the bulk of whatever I can scrimp and save goes to buying new titles!

When you want to build a place for great conversations, the implicit rule is that you create it over great conversations too. So, here’s introducing dreamer, an online friend whom I talk to about Thoth. Oh, we started talking about dreams and dreamer’s got a lot of them. Somehow I became the interpreter for them. And lately, dreamer’s been calling on them to inspire me with more ideas for the shop.

The dream for this post is one about a room infested with translucent yellowish eggs that hatched into aliens. Dreamer was confident I cannot decipher this.

So here goes.

First, the color. Since it’s translucent yellow, I mapped it to aura color meanings and it just so happens that I found this on the first google result of “yellow aura color”:

Pale or Light Yellow: Emerging psychic and spiritual awareness; optimism and hopefulness; positive excitement about new ideas.

Next, the aliens hatching. And I’m just going to say this: I believe we’re not the only living intelligent lifeform in the universe, simply because it will be such an awful waste of space.

So, dear Andromedans, Pleiadians and others, I’m going to bet on dreamer’s intuition and add your titles to Thoth.

Happy 2009!
Shooperman