Hot of the heals of my Titchmarsh copy-catting was finishing off http://www.langfurniturerestoration.co.uk/, a website to promote the fine restoration skills of Andrew Lang. Given my usual tendencies, I’m thinking meeting him was a useful blessing for the future:
“Hello, do you do french polishing….???”
So the grand total of Lotus-based debt to go is……[drum roll]…………[more drum roll]…………….[phone a friend?]……..£1218.81!
Surely, the finishing straight!? Or at least, one before the final corner!
Bank holiday weekend=Work night out Fri+club night for friend’s Birthday Sat + date with fantastic lady Sunday = endurance micro-job Monday…
Still, if there’s one thing I have in abundance, it’s stamina. I donned shorts, put a spade in the – still uncrashed I might add – Fiesta and sped across to Stockport.
Could I return Laura and Paul’s garden to an open space they could enjoy?? But of course, not even a triple-dip hangover holds back Micro-job Man…
My friend Dave, co-owner of Adventure Spec rang the MJ hotline and asked for some help planning the launch of a great new off-road motorbike helmet into the UK. No digging, no DIY just tea-drinking and talking…a new era has dawned for Micro-job man…
As Christmas arrived, I knew the stresses of 2009 were about to fade. As a thank you for helping him get his business started, my friend Steve had booked me on a flight to Colombia for a few weeks of cheap backpacking. As it dumped down with snow back in the UK, micro-job man rested some tired DIY fingers and toes and looked forward to 2010. Then on my return, I got some work as a ski guide in Switzerland -- the chance for a paid holiday was to good to turn down…but HEY:
What about the remaining £1613.81 !!!?
What about the final 47 micro-jobs !!!?)
As I came down to earth with a bump in March -- with all holiday spent until 2011 -- I knew I had to get a hustle on….my means were still dented, it was time to get MICRO-JOB MAN back in the game……
Obviously, we then had to do “The Making of Micro-Job Man: THE RETURN” :
Miriam, a friend of mine from climbing circles needed a logo + website to setup an Acupuncture practice in Portsmouth. Obviously a fine challenge for Micro-job man, so http://www.yinyangacupuncture.co.uk/ was born:
Already #1 in Google for “acupuncture portsmouth”, this leaves £1613.81 or 47 Micro-jobs to go!!
It’s been a quiet week on the micro-job (and blog) front largely due to rather debilitating flu. At first, I assumed the worst -- that cancer, ebola and pig flu had joined forces into one terrible onslaught that would mean the Lotus debt would never been repaid.
In fact, for the first time in several years, I had to quarantine myself at home to avoid covering work colleagues in mucus. Being the responsible micro-job man I am, I also obviously could not inflict such biological warfare on potential MJ employers.
Have a 2nd recovery weekend planned, so should hopefully be back in the game next week.
On a more positive note, I started a “Who can grow the best beard for the Christmas party” competition with work colleagues 2 weeks ago. Whilst the couch syrup has still not shifted my coal miners hack, I do think it’s having a fertiliser affect on my facial fuzz if my early lead is to be believed…
Judge for yourself in the following video. For the last couple of years, I’ve done a spoof DVD Birthday greeting for my friend Alyss. Check out this years for her 30th -- “Eric Cantona” Happy Birthday -- featuring one of the first outings of the new bearded Micro-job man:
Why Spanish? Well, my New Year’s Eve plans are heading in a certain Spanish-speaking direction and I’ve got to get the lingo in.
Anyhow, such irrelevant trite is not Crashed Lotus blog focused; so here’s a quick update:
A demolition job for next week
Some painting leads
No response from the radio stations I’ve emailed
A bit yin and yang, but due to a quick analysis of the web stats I have found a few interesting things out:
Am #5 in Google for “good hustling schemes”
Am #6 in Google for “spin lotus elise”
Am #2 in Google for “crashed lotus”
Yes, wreckedexotics.com have retaken their crown as #1 for “crashed lotus”, so I have to hang my search engine optimisation head in shame. Even a deliberate attempt to load this post with “crashed lotus” to regain the #1 spot for Google searches for “crashed lotus” cannot hide the fact that, yes, I am #2 for “crashed lotus”. What will I do without my world crown?
I guess some micro-jobs that earn actual cash rather than pointless optimising the blog against “crashed lotus”…
Did I mention, I’m sorry to be #2 in Google for “crashed lotus”??
[Might go to bed now...doze off wishing for a change in the "crashed lotus" situation...]
To celebrate the imminent arrival of cash for micro-job #14, I finally got round to recreating the Lotus Elise crash. Having found the first crash rather costly, it was time for PLAN B: Animated Recreation. Even though he’s sold the vehicle, I thought it might be too traumatic for Mark to be forced to relive the experience by providing a voice-over, so his voice is performed by an untrained actor.
With delusions of grandeur, I thought the video recreation slick enough to have its own page: Lotus Elise Crash Recreation
