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 Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 4:38 am
✠✠✠ ✠✠✠ "I think I'll stick with t-shirts and jeans, thanks," Jess said mildly, "After all, I do ride a motorcycle to work and I don't think a miniskirt and low-cut blouse would work very well with that, um, arrangement." She didn't care about impressing anyone, just earning some money so she could keep the plantation in ship-shape order. The only other thing of importance to Jess was her large collection of new and classic books that she had piled around her bedroom, waiting to be shelved on a bookcase that Jess had yet to purchase.
"Is there anyone I need to meet? So, you know, I don't get yelled at for being somewhere I'm not supposed to be...? And then maybe you could show me the security room."
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 2:47 pm
 
׺°”˜`”°º×Ȼяɩɱsѻɳ Ϩқɩɀѻ׺°”˜`”°º×
 ♫Crimson nodded to Vlad, "Ay, I am from Australia, mate. And thank you." He smiled, pleased that someone else didn't confuse him with some stupid country, and that this man enjoyed listening to it. There had been countless times when people had asked him to stop talking like that. He couldn't help but pick up on the way the male was looking at him, he thought that this must surely be what a gazelle feels like before a lion pounces on them. It was rather thrilling, he would have to visit more often. He glanced over to the other male he assumed worked here. They both seemed very nice, he'd love to drink with them. But, of course, that wouldn't end well. Yes, that's right. They were talking about computers. "Thanks again, mate. Oy..." He scratched the side of his head in a thinking pose, "Just a good ol' desktop would be good." He gave him a soft nod and quickly realized Lirian had said something that was completely lost on him, but Vlad didn't seem to worry about what she was saying either. He felt obligated to answer her, he couldn't afford his only vet besides himself to hate him. He gave a soft chuckle, "Down under we have kind little lassies to do all the computer work. Could you do me a favor and bring Celeste up here, love?" He gave her a winning grin.
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 8:10 pm
♥ • • Celeste xoxooxoxo
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The store was very well done and rather easy to navigate. Celeste had actually found the office supplies in aisle six, and that was currently where she was wandering. This shouldn't be too bad of an arrangement since the island was too big. They should definitely be able to acquire all of their office supplies from the general store, without needing to order from some big name store on the continent. The seemed decently well stocked.
She mad a few notes and disappeared after noticing that Crimson had found one of the owners she had disappeared upstairs really quick to check out the bistro they had incorporated with the renovation after the fire. She shook her head at herself for having searched for so long for a building that had been burned down. She was glad to see it finally rebuilt though. The bistro was cozy and she was looking forward to coming back soon to tatse the food.
Having momentarily satisfied her curiosity she headed back down the stairs. As she stepped back into the store she looked over at Vlad, Lirian, and Crimson from the corner of her eye as she debated going to hide back among the isle, but she caught Crimsons request to Lirian and couldn;t go and hide.
Grining mischieviously she walked up behind Crimson, her hands linked behind her back as she looked first Crimson the Vlad over. She brought her brought eyes back to Crimsons darker ones. "Is this where I gallantly step in to rescue you?" She asked jokingly.
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 9:15 pm
׺°”˜`”°º×Ȼяɩɱsѻɳ Ϩқɩɀѻ׺°”˜`”°º×
♫Crimson turned to Celeste quickly and gave her a sigh of relief. "I'm glad you showed up, love." He nodded to her, "Lirian was about to come look for you." He thought he should explain to her what she had missed for whatever reason, "Mr. Tepes here is ordering our paint and computer for us. I told him a relatively cheap, but good enough to run several programs, desktop for your computer. Does that sound alright, mate?" He cocked his head a tad when he asked her that. He thought it did, but then again, he'd probably never use the computer unless she was ever out sick, or quit, or something. "and, what color of paint did we decide on? I couldn't remember if we already had, mate." He smiled, pleased with his little recap.
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 9:58 pm
♥ • • Celeste xoxooxoxo
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Celeste bit back an amused smile at Crimson's sigh of relief. He really wasn;t a big fan of shopping and his sigh said all of that and more. Turth be told she felt a little bad for him, even if her and Lirian were planning to go easy on him. Though, he did seem to be having a decent enough time talking to Vlad based on the looks back and forth that she had walked up too.
After Listening to Crimson's quick summary of what she had missed while she was traipsing the store. She nodded to Crimson, but turned to Vlad to talk about the computer since he would be ordering it. "Hello, Mr. Tepes. I'm Celeste." She said with a smile, before moving on to the shopping stuff that she had come to rescue Crimson from. "Mr. Skizo's specifications are pretty good. As long as it has two gigs of memory I can work with the office suite I would need to install. If you can get 1 or 2 more and keep it within his relatively cheap price that would be even better." She turned to Crimson having thought of something else while she was wandering. "We will also need a printer. I will try to do most things online... but I don't know how many people on the island will prefer paper." The store seemed to have most everything else office-wise in aisle 6, and the printer was the only other big thing she could think of that they might need to order.
Moving on to the paint she shook her head at Crimson. "Actually, I don't think we ever decided. But Amanda suggested a yellow, light green or a blue. I'm not a fan of yellow, and our waiting area is a decent size... so maybe we should consider doing three walls a pale with the fourth a light version of the same color as an accent wall. Greens tend to illicit more cheerful feelings and blues are more soothing. For the rest of the office, like your office and the lab(s) you can choose something that fits you, or Lirian personally, since the clients won't be in there much and you two will." She gave him another teasing grin as she pushed the decision back to him on this one. "Your building your choice."
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Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 5:14 pm
Vlad just watched the interaction between Crimson and Celeste. He smirked and pulled out a little notepad and a little pencil to jot down the exact specs.
desktop.
2 gigs mem.
1-2 more.
decent price.
Printer.
"She knows her stuff doesnt she? Now i know why you work with her." Vlad grinned to Crimson. "How exactly constrained am i with this budget of yours? How much do you want to spend essentially?" Vlad asked the girl. "On the computers that is and the printer."
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"Oh theres no one really to meet. Its just me and Vlad. And he's busy at the moment." Dante said with a smile to the woman. "Ill show you where we keep the whole survelinece room and other electronics.. aside from the cash register and the different cameras themselves." Dante said.
Dante started walking away, leading Jess to the back room that was.. well way in the back near the emergency exit/loading door. He opened up a door that was besides the other one and revealed a little office/survelience room.
"I suppose you can work in here. Theres a phone to call out and make orders from. The system to control the cameras. The recorded videos are along that wall.. i think.. its all stored in the computer there... or accessed from there. Im not sure. And all the TVs are.. well the different camera's." Dante said as he pointed things out in the pretty generic looking survelince room. The only added thing was a few plants, and the nice expensive desktop that linked everything and a nice soft executive like chair that sat besides the desk.
"We also activate the security system from here on this wall. We can give you the code just in case. And thats the fire alarm and control pannel. The circuit breaker and all that." Dante said as he walked into the room and went to the opposite side and pointed the things out.
"Is this okay?" Dante asked as he turned to her.
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 5:44 pm
✠✠✠✠✠✠ Jess studied the small but comfortable room in which she would be spending several hours a day in. She gave her head a small nod, stepping into the room and plopping down in the soft, plush arm/swivel chair. The room was dark, which she liked, but without at least a little light Jess would end up screwing the whole system up because she pushed the wrong button or connected the RAM to the NVIDIA video cards instead of the MSI motherboard. To clear that problem up she asked, "Do you mind if I bring some stuff in to personalize it?"
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 5:47 pm
"Oh yes please do. Were all for that." Dante smiled gently before a thought occured to him. "Oh you can have a hour for lunch and like a 20 min break at some point whenever you want to take either is fine by us. Just one. Let us know when you are taking said break and two if its super busy and we need you to cash out or something try not to take the break then. But you should be fine, honestly." Dante smiled.
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 6:44 pm
✠✠✠✠✠✠ "Great," Jessica beamed, ideas for a nice lamp and some pictures popping into her head. Maybe even a rug... We'll see how things work out, Jess though to herself.
"Okay, well, thanks a bunch for giving me chance to work for you! I'll try not to mess anything up, but I'd still cross your fingers if I were you." Her smile was joking and her eyes shined, even though she knew it wasn't a very good joke. "Do you remember who installed this system? Who you hired? It would be nice to know in case I need to contact them for help of if something looks faulty."
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 7:02 pm
"W-what do you mean keep your fingers crossed? Your not going to blow the place up are you?" Dante said concerned and worried now. When she asked about who installed the system Dante put his finger to his lips and thought. "Um.. no." He said as he hung his head and his arms lightly at his sides.
"But.. we do have the invoice and it should be on there." Dante said as he, slipped past Jessica and went over to a corner of the room where a large fire proof safe was kept. "We keep all the important documents and any extra money in here." Dante said to Jessica. He did the combination and opened it up. He grabbed a folder and closed the safe. He then walked back over to Jessica and handed her the folder with a smile.
"It should all be in there. Reciepts for what was done, how much it cost. Who signed off on it. If you find Hansel Weber's name thats a friend of ours who helped ... well money wise.. helped us rebuild the place. We even have documents and such on who demolished the old store and cleared it away. Everything should be in there. From who put up the walls to whom we got the electronics from.. to what paint we got and who put it on the walls." Dante said gently.
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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 3:50 pm
✠✠✠✠✠✠ Jess stood up and took the papers, giving them a quick glance-over, wondering how you could hire someone and pay them good chunk of money and not remember the contractor or company you had used. But who was Jessica to judge, she'd definitely done her part of binge-buying. "Thanks, these'll be helpful," was her response as she turned around and set the papers down on the large, crescent-shaped desk that curved in font of the monitors and TVs. "Do you have any manuals for this stuff...?" She asked, doubtful. "Or, at least, maybe the brand of equipment this is...?" If he said no to both of these Jess had no idea how she was going to figure out the system. And it made her mad that the person or people that installed it had really left nothing behind to help her.
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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 3:05 pm
"Oh yes we do." Dante said as he went back to the safe and opened it up. This time, since it was a big safe, almost as big as him. He brought out a large box with all the manuals and brands of the equipment.
"Here you go." Dante said as he set it down on the table with a thud. "Sorry, this isnt much help huh? See we just asked a friend for the help, he hired well known and reliable contracters and technicians and they installed and built everything. Vlad and me where left out of the loop. I dont know how much was spent on what, what brand it is.. i mean im just learning on how to work certain things and thats just what they showed us. Like the cameras, the tapes and how to turn the security system on and off. " Dante said with a blush and a bit of embaressment.
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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 10:38 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 4:28 pm
"I will have to agree maroon is a nice color. And if you really need a decorator.. other than your girls. I could always help. I decorated this place and the Bistro upstairs. Not personally mind you but the layout, the colors and all that jazz." Vlad smirked. This Austrailian, he would have to get him into his bed soon. The gentle pat, his manly but gorgeous looks. He'd ride him til morning, have the boy not walking straight for a week. Vlad chuckled aloud at that thought he had running throug his head.
"If you think of anything else you need. Or need to get ahold of me. Here's my card." Vlad said as he reached into his coat pocket and handed Crimson his card.
Vladimir Dracul Tepes
Co. Owner of the Tepes General Store.
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"Well.. girls.." Vlad said as he finally looked to Celeste and the other female near Crimson. "Tell me the colors you want and we can wrap this up. Then i can get to ordering and let you know when things come in." Vlad said as he looked back to Crimson.
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Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 4:31 pm
✠✠✠✠✠✠ "Good, good," was her quick response. She nodded her head twice as she gazed down at the paper, slowly turning toward the panel of monitors and the crescent-shaped desk.
Quickly picking up the her motorcycle helmet, Jess tugged her hair back and fitted it over her head, saying, "I should probably get to work reading all this. And my best thinking space is at home. I'll probably be in more afternoons then mornings but if you need me to do anything give me a call." Jess handed him a paper with all the usual employment necessities: full name, address, phone number, doctors name, emergency contact numbers, etc. "I appreciate this, and I'll be in around noon tomorrow," was the last thing she said before carefully placing the documents in her satchel and ducking past Dante.
Repositioning her helmet into a comfortable place, Jess straddled her motorcycle, checking the bag at her waist to make sure the papers wouldn't go flying. Kicking up the kickstand, Jess revved the bikes engine before pulling away in a quiet burst of speed, intending to make a visit to the coffee shop to get some energy before sitting down to read some amazingly boring transactions.
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