One of my best friends, Dallas Bluth is enjoying his summer in Lyon, France, where he lived from Fall 1996 until 1999. Through family friends, he recently met a woman named Fanny, who is to be married to a Crown Prince of Kuwait. The new couple will be moving to Dubai in a few months, where Fanny is to open a small chain of lingerie stores. Dallas fell into this, and is becoming Fanny’s new English tutor and will likely more to Dubai to help them run the stores.
This email is from July 17, 2005:
Yeah, this whole Dubai thing *is* really nuts. I spoke with Prince Feras on the phone earlier this week and it seems that he wants me to teach him French… He’s coming to Lyon this week to visit with Fanny (who henceforth I must refer to as Princess Radjidja) so I’ll probably be dining with him in a matter of days.
As for Dubai, P. Radjidja seems to have complete confidence that I can run the entire store – and eventually the entire chain – for her. Payroll, computers, software, inventory, the whole shabang, so now it’s up to me to figure out how I’m going to do it. I have about 5 weeks left in Lyon without much to do so I’m going to start designing my own Perl/CGI scripts to see if it’s realistic to do this from scratch. I know I can buy software that can do the job, but I think if I wrote it from scratch I could really streamline the whole process and make things much more idoit resistant. I’ve worked in some stores before and seen the kinds of problems that crop up, and I think I can avoid a number of them by simply writing and changing the software to manage store policies. And besides, it’s geeky as hell and what a cool item to have on your resume!
Assuming all goes well, I should have a nice salary and cool pad by February/March so all visitors are welcome!
