What my client said to me today about Squarespace

So this morning, I was on a long distance phone call with a client who was getting me to help as he reworked his website... again. Surprise to me, though maybe it shouldn't have been. He's one of those fabulous guys who makes me think of phrases like "job security" and those people who move their furniture around at midnight about once every month because they're overcome with these uncontrollable urges, out-of-the-blue. It didn't matter that he's in a different time zone, I could practically hear him jumping out of his seat with the enjoyment of what he's learned how to do, all by himself, by using Squarespace. When they

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Fulfilling some of the terms of our arrangement

When I talked my parents into letting me move myself into this empty house this summer, then come and go as I please, there was some negotiating involved. I promised things. Things that involved me doing stuff I don't normally do. Occasional stuff that feels an awful lot like hard manual labor. Okay, not like building pyramids or anything. But still...

Then someone approached me who expressed interest in discussing a "purchase as is" arrangement with my parents. I shared phone numbers, discussions were had, I was supposed to show the house when they called, and that was that. I sort of put my original negotiations on the back burner of my brain. I mean, "as is" doesn't require my scraping wallpaper, now does it?

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