The Promise of Sex Vs. Guaranteed Alcohol

Choices, we face them every day, and every day we make some great, some not so good, some large, some unimportant, some dreadfully irrevocable. How to make a choice that will not only work today, in one's head but also, say, 6 months from now, a year from now?

What DOES it take to make a long lasting choice?

How about stop the process of choosing and pick one alternative, believe this is the final choice and live with it for some time, socialize this choice (to the best of my abilities today limited in this forsaken penguin infested ghost town), and find its limitations, live with the potential of all possible consequences as if the choice had been made for real.

I perceive a fundamental difference, chemically speaking, between "staying in the process of choosing" (comparing, running scenarios, stressing out all the possible choices at once) and "finally making a choice" (breathing again, going down a chosen path). Therefore I have learned to fool my brain into believing that I have actually made a choice, then sit back and see where it leads. It is a test run of sorts, I ran the choice and then watch it play.

During this repetitive process (detach from one choice, attach to the next) I am only practicing having made a choice so I allow myself to be emotional and extreme, I wake up and go to bed with this temporary choice for a couple of days. It is a process of discovery about that which I can live with and that which I cannot live without. (Atit would say there is no choice but we shall put that thought on hold for the time being).

Betting on Sex or on Alcohol? Or both?

The long term vision for the hotel is to remodel, reconfigure the existing premises to have a total of 16 rooms, 2 ample 'multi-use' common spaces, pull together a coherent view of its simple colonial exterior, enhance its generous interior garden plus an additional if modest space for spa treatments (Got to get all those massage expert friends over here to share the fun!). It will most likely take 12 non-contiguous construction months over 2 calendar years to reach this goal.

I say non-contiguous because we plan to open and start running the place during this coming South American summer, January/February 2009. The idea is to open with a small amount of rooms, 4-5 max, and in addition one of the 'common' spaces ready for business.

The main reason behind opening and therefore interrupting construction during the high season is to have an opportunity to gain experience running the place at a smaller scale. Gaining that early window of perspective at a hopefully slower pace should provide us with the understanding to make better choices in the long haul. It is and ideal situation, a left over mind habit from my software days, a Beta version to smooth out the edges and really understand what the user wants and how to best get it done.

Realistically construction would start August 08, giving us 5 months until Jan 09 to build and condition the place (Construction phase I): What can possibly be accomplished during this period and how to interrupt construction without the place looking a total mess?

That's enough for today, I will tell you more about sex and alcohol next time I blog. Oh yes, I forgot to mention the Architect was chosen, I went with the better looking of the bunch of course.