I just wanted to copy and paste a prayer to Archangel Michael that I found on web site: http://www.sarahsarchangels.com/michael.html
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
More Spring
April Fools Day. Nobody played a trick on me today, boring, would have liked to see or hear about a joke. The weather is better lately, finally warming up, it was +6C today and the snow is melting, still a long way to go. I hope it will melt slowly otherwise we have a flood.
Learned that a former boss of mine has been retired, too bad that things have to go that way, but then again, if he had been more humane and be a better business manager, he still would have been there. Funny enough working with someone for 18 years, is almost like a marriage, good times and bad times.
Stayed inside all day and still wear my track suit, worked the computer all day and created a mailing list of all USA chief plumbing inspectors and their departments, lots of work. I ordered a Dell server, initially listed at Dell's web site for $650, ended up paying with delivery and all the software and extras about $2,000. Still I think it is worth it. I had rebuild an older PC to become a Linux server, but it is limited to what I can do with it, mind you, I have limited knowledge of Linux. Maybe that's the problem. The new one comes with Small Business Server that has MS Exchange server included and ordered a single user Blackberry server software. Linux does not offer that, or at least I am not aware of it. I should have it within a few days. This is what I like from Dell, made to order. It always cost more, but in the end I have something that will work for me for years to come.
Oh recently I made a trip to Florida and ended up changing a hotel on the fly and used Expedia.ca. Due to the Canadian March break all hotels were fully booked, therefore the hotel cost me a fair bit ($200) but the pictures of the hotel were nice and showed a decent outdoors bar area. I get there and it is a walk up motel with the front facing a busy street and the rear facing someone else's marina. Luckily I stayed in the rear. The AC did not work, the button was broken, the room was really old and smelled. Next morning I pretended to stay another night and asked for the room rate and was quoted $130, so much for better Expedia prices. In any case, I check out and eventually was asked by Expedia too write a review of the hotel, I said my piece and then they came back to me and suggested that I re-write it and not to quote prices. So there you have it. How honest of an operation is this? I have decided not to use Expedia anymore.
I started today's blog with the idea to write a piece about a colleague (a friend lady) of mine. But decided against it, I probably could write about a 1000 words, and all of it would be good....... so I shut up while I am ahead of the game.
Upflush get quite a number of hits these days. A number of inquiries have turned into orders so this is nice. Finally all the work on the web site start to work for me. Now I hope that my Euro Sales Inc. consulting web site also get more hits. I got one result from a recent mailing today, good lead and I hope that I can solve the manufacturer's problem. This is the type of work I like to do, and to help out people that have product and certification problems. Unfortunately none of these "problems" are easy fixes otherwise I am sure they would have solved it themselves.
Learned that a former boss of mine has been retired, too bad that things have to go that way, but then again, if he had been more humane and be a better business manager, he still would have been there. Funny enough working with someone for 18 years, is almost like a marriage, good times and bad times.
Stayed inside all day and still wear my track suit, worked the computer all day and created a mailing list of all USA chief plumbing inspectors and their departments, lots of work. I ordered a Dell server, initially listed at Dell's web site for $650, ended up paying with delivery and all the software and extras about $2,000. Still I think it is worth it. I had rebuild an older PC to become a Linux server, but it is limited to what I can do with it, mind you, I have limited knowledge of Linux. Maybe that's the problem. The new one comes with Small Business Server that has MS Exchange server included and ordered a single user Blackberry server software. Linux does not offer that, or at least I am not aware of it. I should have it within a few days. This is what I like from Dell, made to order. It always cost more, but in the end I have something that will work for me for years to come.
Oh recently I made a trip to Florida and ended up changing a hotel on the fly and used Expedia.ca. Due to the Canadian March break all hotels were fully booked, therefore the hotel cost me a fair bit ($200) but the pictures of the hotel were nice and showed a decent outdoors bar area. I get there and it is a walk up motel with the front facing a busy street and the rear facing someone else's marina. Luckily I stayed in the rear. The AC did not work, the button was broken, the room was really old and smelled. Next morning I pretended to stay another night and asked for the room rate and was quoted $130, so much for better Expedia prices. In any case, I check out and eventually was asked by Expedia too write a review of the hotel, I said my piece and then they came back to me and suggested that I re-write it and not to quote prices. So there you have it. How honest of an operation is this? I have decided not to use Expedia anymore.
I started today's blog with the idea to write a piece about a colleague (a friend lady) of mine. But decided against it, I probably could write about a 1000 words, and all of it would be good....... so I shut up while I am ahead of the game.
Upflush get quite a number of hits these days. A number of inquiries have turned into orders so this is nice. Finally all the work on the web site start to work for me. Now I hope that my Euro Sales Inc. consulting web site also get more hits. I got one result from a recent mailing today, good lead and I hope that I can solve the manufacturer's problem. This is the type of work I like to do, and to help out people that have product and certification problems. Unfortunately none of these "problems" are easy fixes otherwise I am sure they would have solved it themselves.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Spring
Well I guess according the calendar spring has sprung, but where the heck is it? Still snow and cold weather out there, though today it was sunny and a clear sky all around. Can't wait till the weather turns nice, I am getting itchy to get sailing this year.
Was going to into business with a guy out of Florida who sells water efficient products, found out just in time what a loser I was dealing with, never seen such a low-life in my life. I also found out that he is shamelessly plagiarizing web page text and products. People like this should be called to task.
Was in Orlando on business two weeks ago, rented a Buick Enclave, very nice car to put around in, not the strongest in power, but smooth and well handling. Great seating and controls, the up sloping rear windows takes a bit to get used to, as smaller cars might not be seen in time. I had to use the passenger side mirror more.
Was going to into business with a guy out of Florida who sells water efficient products, found out just in time what a loser I was dealing with, never seen such a low-life in my life. I also found out that he is shamelessly plagiarizing web page text and products. People like this should be called to task.
Was in Orlando on business two weeks ago, rented a Buick Enclave, very nice car to put around in, not the strongest in power, but smooth and well handling. Great seating and controls, the up sloping rear windows takes a bit to get used to, as smaller cars might not be seen in time. I had to use the passenger side mirror more.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
New Year, New Predictions
Well it is now January 31, 2008, quiet Christmas and quiet New Years Eve. Not that I minded this time around, we always have been busy both days, actually now I think about it, no headache on January 01, that's a first.
My boat idea has not progressed really, there were hickups by the family and it seems that I have to leave it for now and concentrate on my business "stop dreaming" in other words. But is is not gone, not by far, I give it two years and I will be sailing my own boat. This March I will take a week on water course out of Ft. Lauderdale, and an advanced course will be given in October on a cat out of one of the islands. Next year I will charter a cat to see how that sails, problem is that they are much more expensive to purchase than a monohull. Even older boat seem to hold their value. (Is that a good sign?)
The business(es) start to work, my second consulting job is for a british/dutch company, while it is not bad, it is of work for not a lot of pay. However the latter will grow once the consulting work has run its course. There is a lot of growth possible for both the company and myself.
I recently setup two web sites, mostly from a template provided by the ISP. Works okay, but it is restricted in what it can do, I also noticed that Google is very slow in picking it up. Alexia starts to show it now. Maybe it is a matter of time. Have a look: www.eurosalesinc.com and www.upflush.com.
The weather has been atrocious for the last few days, on Thursday I lost power and that meant no internet either, that hurt more than no electricty. On Friday we may expect again a bunch of snow, great! As long as it is gone by Saturday mid morning as I have to fly to Cancun. Work, really it is!
That's it for today, be good.
My boat idea has not progressed really, there were hickups by the family and it seems that I have to leave it for now and concentrate on my business "stop dreaming" in other words. But is is not gone, not by far, I give it two years and I will be sailing my own boat. This March I will take a week on water course out of Ft. Lauderdale, and an advanced course will be given in October on a cat out of one of the islands. Next year I will charter a cat to see how that sails, problem is that they are much more expensive to purchase than a monohull. Even older boat seem to hold their value. (Is that a good sign?)
The business(es) start to work, my second consulting job is for a british/dutch company, while it is not bad, it is of work for not a lot of pay. However the latter will grow once the consulting work has run its course. There is a lot of growth possible for both the company and myself.
I recently setup two web sites, mostly from a template provided by the ISP. Works okay, but it is restricted in what it can do, I also noticed that Google is very slow in picking it up. Alexia starts to show it now. Maybe it is a matter of time. Have a look: www.eurosalesinc.com and www.upflush.com.
The weather has been atrocious for the last few days, on Thursday I lost power and that meant no internet either, that hurt more than no electricty. On Friday we may expect again a bunch of snow, great! As long as it is gone by Saturday mid morning as I have to fly to Cancun. Work, really it is!
That's it for today, be good.
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