January 20, 2010
The personal trainer directory that I have been using must have recently been updated since there are four people on it that I have never seen before in my area. I need to find a personal trainer since mine is moving out of the state. I have used this guy for the past four years and it will be hard to find a personal trainer like him. He gave me a list of people that he recommends, but I have seen most of these guys and I know that I will not be comfortable with them.
I may have to switch to a different gym to find a personal trainer that I like and since the personal trainer directory has some new names on it, I am very hopeful that one of the new guys will work out for me. I usually sit back and watch a personal trainer when I want to determine if we will be a good fit or not and I did just that with the guy I used to have. He knew when to push his clients and when to back off, a skill that some personal trainers lack.
If I can find a new personal trainer before the end of the week, I will be happy and will not lose any workout time either.
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January 19, 2010
It seems to me that since the whole swine flu thing happened we have been buying more purell for our office than ever before. I decided to pull out the order forms from the last few winters, when the regular flu season starts and found that on average, we bought at least four gallon jugs of purell from our sales rep and this year have already bought seven purell gallon jugs.
When I pulled the order forms, I also noticed that the price of both of the items that we get from that sales rep have gone way up in price. I only get air fresheners and the hand sanitizer from them and it looked as though the air fresheners actually cost twice as much as they did two years ago. No one has ever brought this to my attention and I think that the girl who handles the books should have notified me that I am paying more than before.
I am going to schedule a meeting with my bookkeeper and my sales rep to get to the bottom of the price hike that is occurring without me knowing. If the sales rep can show me that every other company in the area is charging the same for the purell and the air fresheners then I will let it go but if he cannot, then he needs to come down in price or I will find someone new to get those things from.
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January 5, 2010
Our only chance of getting some different working poweredge servers, is finding some that have been refurbished back to their original state and are priced very low. Our technical budget is gone for the year and there is no way that we can keep paying to have the dell repair man come out and fix the servers we have one more time.
I truly believe that if we would have taken the money that we have given the dell repair man and saved it, we would have been able to afford a brand new pair of poweredge servers. Of course, this was not possible because we actually have to have the servers up and running to create the cash flow to pay for the repairs.
We do have some other ways that we may be able to get some new or used servers, but we will have to max out our credit cards to do it. We cannot come up with any other solutions to the problem and time is running out. All the managers are going to attend a meeting and vote on buying the poweredge servers with our credit cards, or just paying the dell repair man again when that time comes.
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January 4, 2010
I might be ordering new systems for my restaurants that are going to make it easier to check people out at the cash register. I have seen many of the new systems from all the sales representatives that stop into my restaurants and try to sell me them all the time. After seeing some good systems, I found one that I really liked and decided to order all the parts used.
I found a used point of sale equipment site and they had everything that I would need, so I ordered them and had them sent to my biggest restaurant. I wanted to put the used pos equipment in there, let the girls learn it and then go back to the used point of sale equipment site and order some more systems for my other stores. I would have each of the systems delivered one at a time when I knew the girls from the big restaurant could take the time to teach each of the teams one by one.
The sales reps were going to be very upset when they came in to sell me the newest, latest and greatest system and discover that I had in fact bought used pos equipment and we taught ourselves to use it.
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December 31, 2009
My first day on the job and the servers went down. I was really worried about getting them back online since I had not had too much time to look at them prior to getting hired as the new technician last week. I had to finish out the week at my old job installing used poweredge servers and it was a very long week.
I had decided to change companies, when this one with more pay, better benefits and better hours came available. My wife really pushed me to apply and I ended up getting it.
I headed on down to the storage room where the servers were and could not believe that they were all poweredge servers. The last week of installing the used servers at my old job was going to pay off. I knew the insides and outs of these used poweredge servers and would have no trouble fixing these as long as they were still in good working order.
When it took me less than thirty minutes to get the servers back online, my new boss told me that they had never gotten up and running any sooner than a day or two with their old technician. It made me feel good to have my little secret of having installed ten used servers of the same make and model only about four days earlier.
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December 30, 2009
The only thing left to buy for our new office is some servers. I know that there is no way we can afford to purchase any new ones but I have heard of a website that sells used hp servers that have been refurbished. I figured that the site would be our best bet in getting some quality used proliant servers.
I put my computer guy in charge of the whole thing since I had no idea what kind of used hp servers to get and what is a good enough price. He was more than happy to jump on it and order what we would need. He was glad that I had given him the chance to choose some used proliant servers since he was very comfortable and knowledgeable with that certain model.
He chose some used proliant servers that were priced really low but they were still guaranteed and they were refurbished, unlike the others we had seen online that were just used and had not been cleaned up and restored back to a somewhat new state.
I hope to open the new office at the end of the month, the used hp servers are set to arrive in about two days and as soon as my computer guy can install them, then we can start entering all the new computer stuff into everyone’s systems.
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December 29, 2009
I keep checking the website for the Scottsdale adult basketball league to see when the new season is going to begin but it is not up yet. I am thinking that maybe I may look into going somewhere else if they do not begin soon. I have played on the Scottsdale basketball league for many years and enjoy it. It seems to be the only one that is really organized and I would like to stay there.
I have tried to make some phone calls to the club that organizes the Scottsdale adult basketball league every year but they have no more information and have just directed me to check the website every day and when they had more information, they would post it on there. I am giving them about another two weeks and then I am looking for a different club that has coed basketball.
I use the Scottsdale basketball league to stay in shape in the winter time, and without it, I can fell all my hard work that I put in during the summer time slipping away. I just need somewhere to play and have some fun while exercising at the same time. I discussed this with a couple of friends and they are all willing to put together our own team and just practice until the league starts.
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December 28, 2009
My one thing that I remember from having slumber parties with my cousins was the footie pajamas that we would all wear. I guess that since we were only about six years old and lived way up north where sometimes you did not leave the house for days if a big snowstorm came through, it made sense to be all bundled up.
I wanted to get my sisters and cousins something for Christmas that would remind them of all the fun we used to have. I bought each of them some footie pajamas that I found in adult sizes online. I also got them each a different board game, just like the ones that we used to play for hours at a time.
I sent off the packages early enough in the month that I knew they would get them before the holidays. I think that they all made it to their destinations about the same day since I got five calls all within four hours of each other. My one cousin told me that every time she walks by the toddler pajamas section and sees the footie pajamas she thinks of those slumber parties. I invited all of them to come out where I live and bring their new pajamas along and we could have an old fashioned slumber party like we used to do.
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