Sabrina Dent: Freelance web designer, developer and internet marketer living in Cork, Ireland with one dog and a husband in no particular order.
Three Wise Men
There’s nothing quite like parking your arse in a bar and sitting there for three hours while three lovely men take it in turns to deliver gifts to you.
I spent yesterday at The Boqueria, of More Mobiles Than Knackers fame, hanging out with Paul Sweeney, later to be joined by John Handelaar, and then by Pat Phelan. By the time I left three hours later, I had a new book in one hand, a box of note cards in the other, and a wodge of cash stuck down my brassier.
Things I learned that afternoon:
- Paul Sweeney is one of the funniest people I’ve ever met. This is a man who understands shtick, and could easily do standup as a back-up career in the very unlikely event that VoiceSage keels over and goes 3.0. He is also, however, writing some of the best stuff I’ve read on customer experience and marketing over at You’ve Been Noticed.
- Pat Phelan pays in cash. Not discreetly, either – in a big roll of €50 euro notes. But that’s OK, because I’ll take it however I can get it, plus he also provides the envelope in the form of a lovely notecard set from the Met.
- John Handelaar will remember items from your Christmas list that were nowhere to be found anywhere in the People’s Republic in December, and buy them for you in February if he sees them. In this case, it was a copy of Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash. I would marry him, but I already have. Twice.
Finally came home sans cash in brassier but with a brand new Canon 400D in hand. Mr Handelaar’s birthday is tomorrow, and after many years of birthdays and Christmases cobbled together from crumbs found beneath floorboards, very deserving of a nice present to mark the occasion.
And I didn’t really need a new couch anyway.
20 Feb 2008
| In: Domesticities |
I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.
Jason Rakowski
20.02.2008, 12:22 pmsweet!
20.02.2008, 5:47 pmI have a nikon d40 and it’s amazing. that canon should be incredible as well. :)
It is! My photos, sadly, are not but we’re still figuring out all the buttons, and keep missing actual daylight. I’m excited to give it a go under good light conditions.
What with this being Ireland, I should only have to wait until July!