road trip!

sorry for the delay between blog posts. we have been working shorthanded, with much to do in a short time. we found a replacement for matthew yesterday. so far so good.

we have picked up a rather large account from a competitor. the drawback is that it is a product for which i have taken only the the hardware class, which is available as a "self study" course. this course is a prerequisite for certification, but will not allow us to properly serve this new large customer. i will be heading to the sarasota/bradenton florida area for a two week programming and network class june 5 to june 16.

eight hours a day in class plus homework hardly makes this a working vacation, but i plan to make the best of it.

good afternoon friends

lately, sunflower and i have been spending our saturday mornings going to estate sales. we really enjoy looking at the houses more than the stuff for sale, but once in a while we fid great stuff.

the first book i ever bought with my own money was a ballantine paperback edition of the beasts of tarzan by edgar rice burroughs. it was printed in 1963, and cost fifty cents. i still have it. over the next few years, i bought all of the burroughs stuff i could find, and i still have most of them. they are all rather battered and worn.

at one of todays sales, i found a complete set of the tarzan novels and about half of the martian novels (including two that i no longer had) from the 1972 printing and in pristine condition for fifty cents each.

i am looking forward to re-reading these. it will be like visiting an old friend.

good evening friends,

i have been pretty busy lately. we have yet to hire a replacement for matthew. this means that i am doing all of my job and at least half of matthew's. tommie (my remianing coworker) has been pretty tied up with his projects, leaving the incoming service to me. we have had a few applicants with no viable candidates so far.

the last guy we interviewed had been fired from one of our competitors because he was arrested right off of a job site for outstanding traffic warrants. this had resulted in a suspension of his driver's license. it is difficult to test and inspect fire alarm systems unless you can drive to the buildings they are protecting.

the polls for the governor's race that prompted my change of parties have had the candidates trading the front position by narrow margins. it will be close. maybe my one vote will tip the scale....

second attempt at publishing this. does anyone else use firefox? i had to go back to internet expolrer to publish this