Snakes Camping, New Studio, Chess Lesson

With my son camping in Africa and we are carefully looking in a tree stump for snakes. We find a small multicolored one and look to the guide to identify it. Then we hear a bunch of commotion from the mouth of a cave nearby where someone has been bitten by a snake. Then trying to get a strong spider web out of a corner behind my work desk. Then visiting an artist I know, and a new studio she has built. The design has many rooms built on a square. I note she could have had an inner courtyard where she chose to do a conference room. She shares that she has already had 2000 visits to the website. She then says she and her husband are struggling with the stress of making it all happen. There is a problem of some flooring not laying properly and she says they need to replace. I go and work on the seam and am able to fix it. Then she shows me a half life chess set. She pays her husband and is clearly in control of the board. She then explains that she plays purposefully to a stale mate as in the tournaments she could still score enough points to win. He leaves feeling he wasn’t beat. Then a new marketing team arrives and they have hired me on for the launch. It’s made of a bunch of young guns with the executive, a seasoned Madison Avenue woman. When they react against me, she laughs that they will just have to put up with my beard.