Welcome to Episode 66 of my podcast. The view from the crow's nest in which Romeo realises he's made a humongous error. So, I learned a very valuable lesson today a very valuable business lesson. And that is always know what something you're using is going to cost. So, I've been doing, you know as our, our agency audience ninja has been doing a whole bunch of data extraction, for one of our clients, and that basically involves taking getting data from Google Maps. And I have used the tool that I've been using before for the last couple of years, but by now, you know, nowhere near as for nowhere near as much data you know just scraping a bit here about a bit there. And I've never had to pay anything because I think, you know, like $200 credit every month. And I've don't think I've ever gone over that and so it just never occurred to me to double check. And so, this afternoon early this afternoon about lunchtime effect. It occurred to me to go and double check. So I went and had a look at my billing and discovered that I'd run a run up a bill for about 2400 pounds, which was entirely unexpected. And basically is a pretty crippling kind of bill to run up when you know you're in not planning for or expect to get. And the moral of the story is Yeah, my legs, make sure you know what the hidden costs are so it's a good lesson for business. And, for example, our. I our business card going to be a business now just a couple of products, worldschooling hub. Part of that is based around an interactive map, which pulls data from Google's Maps, Google Maps, and we wanted to make worldschooling hub the maps, free service, and recently we've been saying actually I think we're going to need to charge people for it because basically we're going to need revenue to come in and you know there's value to what we're offering and maybe we should charge. Well now, I'm glad that we checked with the Google Maps because if we don't charge, we're going to be potentially seriously out of pocket, you know, depending on how much is used. So that was a good lesson. The upshot of the story is that I spoke to Google and pleaded with them, you know, ignorance and blah blah and they're going to recommend to billing, that I have a to the billing department that I have a refund or credit now against it. There's no guarantee. I had to spend a few hours configuring stuff in my account, so that they were happy that basically I put in place, safety precautions and child locks, so that I couldn't do such a ignorant Feat. Again, and, you know, that took quite a lot of time this afternoon to do and to configure it was really confusing for me. So I've pleaded my case I've configured it I've sent it through and now I just have to wait and see what the big g decides with Bill me. Two and a half grand or whether they're gonna let me off with, you know, with a bit of a slap wrist today, you know, know what you're doing. So either way, you know lesson learned. Hopefully not an expensive lesson learned, hopefully just a bit of a time last lesson learned a bit of a stretch but yeah, so that was, that was basically my day seminar we're discussing this morning, kind of following on from yesterday's podcast where I was talking a lot about, you know, trying to bring the world schooling, to where we are now, even if we can't travel so much and whatnot. And today I was saying to him that maybe we should go back to a place called caster billary, which is in the south, further south of Italy in Calabria, and we've. There's a, an apartment there that we can use. And we spent from about October last year to about March this year there. And we were, I mean the kids were really bored sim was bored to tears because there is just like nothing to do and Castor venery itself for the kids during the day, but it is on the edge of a very nice. National Park is the biggest National Park in. Sorry, I'm just looking at some creature that's climbing up the wall. I think it is as as our mosquito or wha
