January 19, 2010
The Scottsdale basketball league starts very soon and I have put together a great team this year. I think that we might be the team to beat this year from everything I hear. So, I have told my entire Scottsdale adult basketball league team to not tell anyone else where we are practicing and when so they cannot check us out till the first game.
I remember when I first started playing on the Scottsdale adult basketball league about three years ago and my team was the worst. We did not win any games the entire season and came in last at the tournament. In fact, I guess that everyone said that we were the worst team to ever be involved with the league. It made me more determined to put together a winning team for the next year and an even better one this year.
I have been almost recruiting players from other teams to see if they want to be part of the best or are just doing it for fun and most of them want to be on a winning team so it has been quite easy. When the other teams on the Scottsdale basketball league get a look at my team this year, they will all want to join me next year.
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January 12, 2010
I called my old buddy from college since I knew that he was an insurance agent now and asked him to get me some life insurance quotes. He asked me if I had ever had any type of life insurance before and I had to tell him that this would be my first. He responded by saying that he would be happy to get me some life insurance quotes and get me set up with one of the most important things that you can do. He added that it is also one of the most responsible things that you can do, getting life insurance. Being set for anything is very important and a lot of people have not taken that step yet.
I looked over the quotes from my buddy when he got them to me about a week later and it looked that the quickest way to get everything all set up would be to go with no medical exam life insurance and get the papers signed. I was very happy when everything was set into place; the no medical exam life insurance policy that I signed made me feel like I was ready for anything. I knew that if anything happened to me, my family would be taken care of.
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January 4, 2010
I have been looking at different systems for cashing my customers out and I have come to the conclusion that first, I cannot afford a new system and second that if I do even get one, it will be a used point of sale equipment system. I just happened to stumble upon a site that sold all used pos equipment when I was ready to give up looking altogether.
I found a discussion board and asked if anyone else had ever heard of the used pos equipment site that I had found and if they did good quality business. I think that I had read that they sold refurbished used point of sale equipment along with new pos equipment. I was very interested in how companies were refurbishing everything these days and reselling it for such lower prices than all the new stuff. I had bought some refurbished electronics last spring and it all works really great.
I am hoping that I get some people to respond to my question on the used point of sale equipment site. I will be planning on ordering, installing and hopefully using the new system this fall if I hear that they are good products.
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December 31, 2009
I think that the whole office could not avoid the big problem that we had been having with the servers anymore. In fact, we could not even work anymore since the servers had gone down and for three days the technicians could not get them up and running.
We called our home office and explained the situation, hoping that they would approve the purchase and installation of new servers very quickly. We were all afraid that since our sales had always been the lowest out of the other branches, they might tell us that they were closing our doors.
Neither of those were the case and they actually told us that they would be sending us some used servers to have installed and that should help us out. We could not believe our ears, they did not think enough of us to give us new, and we could only have used poweredge servers.
The used poweredge servers were delivered the following day and the technicians spent some time installing them and getting them in line with the old system. We were back up and running about two days later. The used servers were not as bad as we thought they would be and now our sales have started to improve. We all say that the used servers were a good luck charm that was sent to us from the home office.
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December 30, 2009
My brother in law is a computer genius and he always finds great deals online and out just shopping at garage sales, swap meets and computer shops. I told him that my office was having trouble with our servers and he told me that we should just replace them with used hp servers. I knew that my boss had already said that we did not have the money to buy new ones but used hp servers were worth a try.
I got online with my boss to find out how much some used proliant servers would cost and we found a really affordable site. I called and asked my brother in law if he had ever heard of this site and he had, in fact he used them all the time when he had his computer repair store a few years back.
He told me that we would probably not find better prices for used proliant servers than this site. They refurbish them and then sell them. They offer repairs if you need them too. They have grown so much that they often get your repairs back to you within forty eight hours. My boss was so grateful to me for finding this site and helping him to save a lot of money with the used hp servers.
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December 28, 2009
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Shopping — Stoney @ 5:46 pm
I was just surfing the web one day and came across a company that sells janitorial supplies for a lot less than I was paying. I had never thought to check out other companies to compare prices; I just figured that I was getting good prices on my cleaning products since I had used the same company for over ten years.
The whole thing made sense though since the janitorial supplies company that I used was very small and did not have the kind of connections to get the prices like the stores that order in bulk. I did not want to change companies because I believe in supporting the locally owned stores in town but that would just not be smart business.
I called the online company to request prices on everything that I buy every month to compare to what I was currently paying. I could not believe that I was looking to save over a hundred and fifty dollars each month by switching. After seeing that number, I had to move my cleaning products buying business to the online company. I told my old supplier that I did not have a choice and they understood. I hope that they do not carry any hard feelings towards me.
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Shopping — Stoney @ 5:31 pm
My brother wanted to open up a smaller version of my bakery in his hometown. We had both grown up in our parent’s bakery in Chicago and I bought the business from our parents about twenty years ago. My brother never wanted to have the responsibility and went to college to get a teaching degree. He tried it for about five year and then decided that he should be running a bakery just like his father did.
I wanted to help him get everything set up and running, so I forward on a good discount office supplies company name to him and let him know that they also sold discount office furniture as well. He ordered everything that he thought he would need according to my list and was very happy when it all arrived.
He had been getting the bakery ready for about six months and I drove all night, the day before his grand opening to surprise him. I got there about two hours before the doors were to open. He had not gotten all the discount office supplies put away in his office and the discount office furniture was still on the loading dock. I took care of setting up his office so that he could concentrate on the goods to be sold when the doors opened.
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December 22, 2009
The only reason for hiring a good reputation firm is because you have done something in the past, are currently doing something, or are thinking you might do something that will hurt your career or business. This is what I was told by my lawyer but I think that he is wrong. I am just hiring ReputationManagers.com to help maintain my very good reputation that I have already.
ReputationManagers.com was a company that helped out a friend of mine when some very racy pictures of her surfaced from when she was a teenager. She told me that without the help of the ReputationManagers.com, the whole situation would have been much worse than it was.
I knew that I had not done anything wrong during my younger years and was currently in good standings, and did not plan on doing anything in the future that would warrant anyone thinking I was a bad person. I did however want to maintain the reputation of being a good person and one that people could count on. I know that these days more and more people are looking at online news about you and investigating your history where it seems that they can find out more information about you than you even knew existed.
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