What’s even more disappointing is the fact that some of the people that go to the meetings seem to claim that they will give you a free offer of some kind, in order to drum up business for themselves, but when you contact them and ask them to do it, they don’t even call you back! For example, there is a guy there that is a home insulation contractor that goes every week and will stand up and tell people that his company will perform a free energy audit and he hands out business cards with the web page address of his company, saying that they have a list of energy saving solutions on their web site, but when I tell him that I want to schedule an audit for my house he never gets back to me! I have even gone to his web page and filled out the request form and they don’t get back to me! Is that any way to run a business?

I think that the US Post Office continues to raise the rates of stamps because they are not getting enough work (competing with Email, UPS, FedEx, etc) so this is a relatively painless way to give them more work at the expense of some other company! So, it is creating a little bit of job security for the Post Office workers, and some job security for the people who end up opening the envelope at the company it is going to! And, hopefully, their company recycles (most big companies do) so maybe the papers will get recycled there instead of filling up the junk yards in the local municipalities!

Well, ever since I worked for a Hotel Bathroom Supplies & Restaurant Supply Company myself back in 1972 and 1973 I have had an interest in where people can go to get those types of supplies at a wholesale price. The place that I worked at did not advertise that they would sell their products to walk-in customers, but people walked in just the same and bought things from the company.

I decided to try to look up the company I used to work for on the Internet, and I couldn’t find them online. I wonder if they’ve gone out of business! I did, however find the website of the PeachSuite Wholesale Hotel Supply & Restaurant Equipment Company and found myself spending quite a long time looking at the different flatware and stemware and thinking about how even after all of these years I am still using the same flatware that I bought back in 1972 from the company that I worked for. I’d say that was a good investment, wouldn’t you agree?

So Tim picked me up at the appointed hour and drove me to the club. When we first walked in the door, there were four greeters there, introducing themselves with a smile and a handshake. One person was selling tickets to a 50/50 raffle, and another was collecting business cards for a prize drawing that was going to be held a little later. At first I felt a little bit awkward, but it wasn’t long before I recognized a few people that I had met before and I went over and chatted with them for a little while.

These new technologies are very important to me because they will help us to slow down the pollution that we contribute to the ever-growing pollution problem. Ever since I can remember the teachers in my schools have been encouraging their students to reduce, reuse and recycle, and find ways to promote the conservation of our planet. Sometimes I wish that I had been able to go to college to get a degree in conservation and make my living in that field; I feel so strongly that too many people are trashing our planet. When solar energy becomes mainstream, I think it will be a great leap forward in preserving our planet!

We have been spending a lot of time looking through the newspapers, and searching Internet job search engines.

I’ve seen postings of job fairs being held in the middle of the work week, which is a problem for both of us – we can’t take time off of the jobs we have now to go to a job fair!

I’ve been on a few job interviews, and have been told I’m “over-qualified” for the job.  I think what they mean is “you’re too old.”

It is very discouraging, when you are approaching the retirement age, to be looking for work!

One of the things that really shocked me was the charge on the bills for a simple beauty salon visit by his mother – the charge was $300 for a beauty salon visit! And the woman went to the beauty salon twice a month! I remember bringing that charge to the attention of my client, and he said he was aware of it and the charge was right. I just cannot even imagine having enough money to pay $300 twice a month to have my hair done! All I can say is that it must be nice to be able to afford such an expensive nursing home!

If and when I find myself in the position of having to help my own mother find a nursing home, I’m sorry to say that we will not be able to afford such a nice place that we can give her a beauty salon appointment twice a month for $300. We will have to find one that takes good care of the patients, but keeps costs as reasonable as possible. One way that technology can help with that is with the use of nurse staffing software to ensure that there are enough nurses on duty all of the time. I don’t want to send her to a place that neglects their patients because they are understaffed.

When I have the need to take a look at my resume to update and edit it, I find myself thinking back to that first full-time job. That was where I learned that if I wanted to take a break I had to be smoking a cigarette. And that if I were so brave as to correct my boss’s terrible spelling and grammar on a letter that he wanted me to type up that he would get really angry and threaten to fire me even though I was right and he was wrong. I learned a lot of real-life lessons back then about how unfair life is and that biting my lip and holding my tongue was a very hard, but very important thing to do if I wanted to keep my job.

From time to time I find myself thinking back to that job, and remembering that even though the people there were difficult to work with, that the place really did have good prices, good quality, and a good selection of things that are not normally available to the retail customer going to a mainstream department store. So when I decide that I want to buy something for my house that just might be available from a place like that I will go online and see if I can buy it from a website like the PeachSuite Wholesale Hotel Supply & Restaurant Equipment Company website. You can find some really cool items on there, like a seven-piece pie cutter for under ten dollars. I think that is a great little gadget to have!

For example, the contents of Denver self storage units might be related to the skiing industry, so if the business person is not interested in dealing with trying to sell items that would appeal to customers that enjoy skiing, they might actually skip that auction. Similarly, the show at a Miami storage unit might have a lot of items in storage related to surfing or boating, so there might be a different base of bidders there. And a show done at a Phoenix storage unit might have some valuable archeological items that could be of interest to museums.

There does seem to be a base core of participants that travel around for the show, and when I watch the show I always wonder how much the stars of the show are getting paid to do the show, and I wonder who came up with the idea to do a reality show like this. I just can’t even imagine how a concept of a show like this got approved to be broadcast in the first place.

I decided to cut back on the coffee and switch to water or a flavored water while at work. If I was going to cut back to just one cup of coffee, it was going to have to be GOOD coffee. So I bought a bag of ground Columbian beans from Starbucks.

But that is too strong for my taste. I finally figured out how to make my own personal blend of coffee to make from home. I take a small canister and fill it halfway with Starbucks Columbian coffee, and then fill the canister the rest of the way with Folgers brand Columbian coffee. When I mix them together, the coffee is not too strong and it retains the special taste of Columbian beans.