It All Began at a Wedding

We'd been looking for an office for a while. One day, while sitting at a wedding, the older brother of the groom leaned over to a guy sitting a cross from me and said, "Hey, if Jason fixes up that building, you'll give it to him rent free for three years right!" The man chuckled and said, "Sure!" This is the building he was referring to:




I laughed to and didn't think much about it, but the building is a stone's through from our house, so I mentioned the idea to Elissa. She liked it, which really surprised me. I asked around to try and get an idea of how much it would cost to repair. Turned out it could be renovated for about what it would have cost to rent a place for a couple of years.

Interestingly, it was also one of only three buildings in the entire city to survived the tsunami. Despite the fact that it had in recent days become a rain shelter for cows and goats, it seemed like a significant part of Calang's history. We decided we'd rather rebuild it then throw money into rent .

...At the very least, it had a nice view from the roof:


As we began the renovations, the owner came by and said with a chuckle, "The water buffalo that was dead has been raised to life!"