January 20th, 2010
I knew that at four hundred pounds, I needed to put find a personal trainer at the top of my list before anything else. I have actually lost about thirty pounds since doing some workouts at home but have hit some sort of wall and have been stuck there for the last three weeks. I called and asked one of the local gyms if they had a personal trainer directory and they told me that they did and they could either fax it or email it to me, so I chose to receive it by email.
I looked over the personal trainer directory for a few days and tried to narrow down the search to find a personal trainer off of the list. I knew that I would never be comfortable with a woman, so it cut the list practically in half by doing that. I started making some phone calls to find out how much this was going to cost me and was pleasantly surprised by many of the personal trainer’s answers.
I settled on trying out two different personal trainers that I had gotten from the personal trainer directory, just to see which of them I was most comfortable with. I was just hoping that one of them would work out.
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January 19th, 2010
The waterfree urinal that we just ordered from our plumbing fixtures company is the top of the line. I wanted to be able to actually see other than what I had seen in pictures, but the plumbing fixtures company ordered two and sold both of them as soon as some of their clients saw them. I think that I would have been the next stop after them but they got them first and now I have to wait about four to six weeks for our waterfree urinal to come in.
I told all my customers about it and of course the men are all looking forward to seeing the waterfree urinal and the ladies just think that anything in a men’s restroom must be really gross no matter how new it is. I have always put time and money into making the women’s restroom really nice and have never spent any money on the men’s but that is about to change.
Four to six weeks from now and maybe a little extra time to install it and I will have the coolest restroom for men in this town, since the people who bought the floor models of the waterfree urinal are sixty miles away.
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January 13th, 2010
I was happy to find out that I did not have to handle the three way link exchange that had been going on for about six months now. I was having a hard time keeping up with everyone else, I figured that they had more than one person writing their one way links and that was how they put them out so fast.
I guess that either the boss saw how overwhelmed I was, or one of the other people on the three way link exchange tree called and told him that we were not holding up our end of the bargain. I really do not care which is true, I am just feeling very relieved right now and know that if I am not expected to handle that and all the other duties I have, my life will be much easier.
My boss introduced me to four young gentlemen who had been hired to strictly handle the one way links and make sure that we kept up our end of the deal. I was to get them set in their new office and then show them everything that I had worked on up until that point and then let them go.
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January 5th, 2010
For three years now I have been using the same dell repair company and have never had any problems with them till now. I called to have them write up a work order to fix my poweredge servers like they have done many times before. This time, the woman who I talked, to must have been new or something and she asked me not to send the poweredge serves today because they were backed up with repairs.
I hung up the phone and just stood there thinking that I must have not heard her correctly and so I tried back and got a different operator. I explained that I had used their dell repair service many times before and that I once again needed my servers to be fixed and then sent back. The operator that I had on the line at the time helped me with the work order and then asked me if I had any other questions.
I proceeded to tell him all about the woman that I had spoken with earlier and how she had asked me not to send the poweredge servers today because they were backed up and had lots of other repairs. He was dumbfounded and told me that he was very sorry and would make sure to find out who did that and take care of the problem right away.
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January 4th, 2010
The new store was going to need more than just a few things to get it up and running so I decided to look online for some used point of sale equipment. I had heard that by buying used pos equipment, you can save tons of money and still get everything you need.
I found most of the things on the list from the used point of sale equipment site that I found by searching online and got most of them at a huge discount. I did have to get a few things new but we certainly saved a lot of money on the used stuff so the few new things did not really make much a difference.
I did call and ask my partner if there was anything else that she could think of that we needed before I finalized the sale and she told me that she would like to get a few used pos equipment items just for back up, just in case we had issues with not everything working correctly on the day the store was going to open. We had advertised the grand opening all over the state and hoped that it would be really busy with people who had seen all the ads.
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December 31st, 2009
The used servers that were for sale in the computer shop were really cheap. I was afraid to buy any of them though since they were used. I talked with the gentleman who was working at the store and asked him which of the servers he would recommend and he told me that he had luck with the used poweredge servers in the past.
I wanted some sort of guarantee and the guy at the store agreed to a full ninety day warranty on the used poweredge servers and I got them for about sixty percent less than what I would have paid for new ones. Of course, with new ones I would have probably a three or four year warranty.
I called my computer technician as I was driving away from the computer shop and told him that I would like him to help me with the installation of the used servers. He agreed to help me on the following day. I wanted to be involved with the installation of the used servers so that I might be able to fix them when they went down. I have always had to call my computer guy and depending on how busy he is, it can take a few days to get to them and the wait and time down, costs money.
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December 30th, 2009
The computer shop down the street was having a sale on used hp servers and I thought I would stop in and check it out. I could always use a back up just in case and if I could get it for a good price then it would be even better. I knew that I could afford to pay up to two thousand dollars but no more than that.
A buddy of mine had some used proliant servers and he was willing to deal on those too. I just thought that if I got one of the used hp servers from this shop, they would also be able to fix it if anything would happen to go wrong with it.
The price tags were on the serves in the shop and the sign read that the sale was for thirty percent off of the ticketed price. I got my phone out to start figuring what the final prices would be on these used hp servers. When you figured tax into the final sale price, it was cheaper to go and get the used proliant servers from my buddy and I would be saving so much that I could afford to pay someone to come out and fix it if something went wrong with it.
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December 29th, 2009
I wanted to join the Scottsdale kickball league that everyone at work was talking about. I was planning on getting the paperwork and filling it out over the weekend so that I could surprise my coworkers on Tuesday night when they would have their first practice along with a new team member.
I got online to print out all the necessary registration paperwork for the Scottsdale kickball league and found that it was a league for adults only. I had never heard any of the people say that it was the Scottsdale adult kickball league but the age requirement was eighteen. I was only seventeen and would not be turning eighteen until the following spring.
I called and discussed the matter with the gentleman who is in charge of admissions with the Scottsdale adult kickball league and he would not work with me. He told me that they did have a league for teenagers and that he would be more than happy to help me get signed up on it. I think that he was missing the point of me wanting to play with my coworkers but oh well, I guess that I will just have to go and cheer them on.
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December 28th, 2009
The boys pajamas sale that they were having at the store was not near as good as the place that was selling the footie pajamas online. I had thought about just getting the boys pajamas at the store because then I would be done and would not have to order something and then have to wait on it.
I decided to just go home and think about it for a little bit. I took a picture of the pajamas that were at the store and then put in the name of the site that the footie pajamas were on. I called my sister to see if she thought my nephew would enjoy the footie pajamas or the two piece boy’s pajamas. I wanted to make sure that he would really like his gift and I was going to get the one that his mom thought would be best.
After a three hour conversation on the phone about many other things besides the boys pajamas but after that time, I was sure that I needed to order the footie pajamas from the site online. The estimated delivery date was about four days from the time that I ordered them which should give me at least six days leeway in between the time I needed them and the time they were supposed to arrive.
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December 28th, 2009
I have been searching for a new company to use for our office supplies. I know that the company that we got our discount office furniture from deals with office supplies, but I am not sure what their prices are and if they have everything that we order every month.
I guess that best way to figure out if the discount office furniture shop has our products, is to call them. I am really hoping that the secretary that they used to have is gone. She has the most annoying voice that I have ever heard. I usually make my assistant call them if we need any new furniture but she is not here so I will have to make the call.
When I called the discount office furniture store, the owner actually answered the phone and explained to me that the usually secretary was on vacation. I asked him if he had the products that I needed and he did some checking and came back on the phone to tell me that he did have everything that I would need every month and he would throw in a twenty percent discount since we are such good customers. If now I can somehow set up the orders to be placed online, I will not have to deal with the annoying girl’s voice on the phone each month.
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