...And another thing...

I'm nearing 10,000 visitors on one of my counters (not sure about why the discrepancy) so let's have a contest....who ever becomes visitor 10,000...gets.......a Real Big Round of Applause from Me!!!!! ...Oh....not the type a prize that would motivate people, huh.

Oh well..thanks for visiting anyway and I hope you have found this entertaining in the past...because there's nothing but Thrills and Spills ahead!!!! Especially when we're on the beaches of the world!!! WooooHooooo!!!!!

The ReDo is almost...done

As I type this on my laptop, the final software installations are going on with my desktop. I'm scrambling to make thinks just right since I have to work every-other-day at the station (I'm working an extra and someone wanted to switch with me) so until next Monday, I seem like I work a lot...

Not a lot of business stuff going on now...a little busy...but I need to make time for the business so I can be busy in other ways!!! Like relaxing on my gazebo calling people, computing,etc..

And nothing exciting at work.. a lot of "I've fallen and can't get back up" calls...must be the weather....

Wipe out.....

No, not the song...and no, not falling off your motorcycle going 90 without a helmet...this is wipe-out-my-computer-so-I-can-get-my-computer-faster-and-on-the-way-get-rid-of-things-I-thought-I-needed-but-never-used Day. You know, it's like someone else cleaning out your basement and getting rid of things without asking you but you never miss them because you never use them...(am I rambling?). So it's time to format and hopefully, I'll be back soon......

Really.....

I thought I posted several times since the last but apparently I screwed up when saving or something...
Well, Elizabeth, my step-daughter moved back to ISU with our help and my niece, Alex moved in....long story there...
Work has been ok...inmate faking seizures because he doesn't have AIDS?....Oh yeah...his wife does....hmmm.....
I got up on our roof and tarred a few places to stop leaking...
I tried to upgrade the memory in my step-daughter's 4 year old computer....would have cost $200 so... I bought a new one for $350!! We used the file and setting wizard to tranfer between the 2 computers on our network and it worked flawlessly!!
Ok, I've probably bored you to tears...if you got this far...

Averaging 10..hopefully not today...

For the last 5 shifts we've had 10 or more calls per shift. Today we've had 3! Hopefully we won't hit on average in the last 12 hours. Pretty much routine calls today...

I have some more business calls to make this week. As much as I like my job, the politics is killing me and I have to get out of this job...We've been mandated to water flowers on the square every morning...which we have. Due to the heat of the summer (and I really think the plants aren't planted right either), the flowers are dying and we're being blamed for not watering. Now the mayor wants us to sign in when we water, who waters, and document how long we watered...and we have to have a city official go with us for the next 2 weeks to see if we're doing a good job!

Please sign up for the business so you and I can get out of our current jobs!!!!!!LOL

Seminar was great!!

The speakers, Jimmy and Lori Odum from Texas, were great...informitive and funny!! That's the kind of speakers that get messages across. Reminds me of Joel Osteen, the TV evangelist...(even though "TV evangelist" reminds me of the term used for fire-and-brimstone evangelist in the past, he is not like that). Watch him on your local channels or watch the live streamed broadcast at his site. I'd love to have him in our business...he teaches God's principals in everyday life.....the same principals used in our business....really...

5 Hours is better...???

A little more sleep last night at the station but 12 calls throughout the shift....On our way to 3000 calls this year where we have been at 2200. Anyway, 1 call was at a nursing home for a very talkative gentleman in his 70's with chest pain. It went away and we talked for the 15 minute ride into the hospital. The 1 thing he wanted to know was if we paid for our duty shirts. I said we do indirectly (we get a clothing allowance). He asked if I could get him one....so that's my next item on the to-do list...and I can run that out to him when he's back at the nursing home.

Our monthly meeting for the business is today and as always look forward to that. Have a few of our team going and waiting to hear back from a few more. The thing that's frustrating is that people that want ot do this as a business should just put this on thier calendar and know about it. But I constantly call people and they're surprised when the meeting is (we know a year in advance). I don't mind if they don't build the business but let me know. Otherwise schedule it!!... Ok...I'm done..

3 hours is good enough for anyone....

That's about how much sleep we got last night. A large flood light that is on the ground illuminating the courthouse caught fire, an inmate at the jail hung himeself with bedsheets, a lady with trouble breathing that just wanted a little oxygen and not go to the hospital (we eventually talked her into it).

The business has been a little slow...my fault though. I haven't been getting out as much lately talking to people as much as I normally would be doing. What keeps me going though is I have no alternative for extra money for retirement, etc. I don't think I'll be happy to live on 1/2 of what I have a hard time living on now. And I don't want to go on calls as above and sleep as little as we do sometimes, etc until I'm 70! And I don't want to be a greeter at Walmart to make extra money when I retire (no offense to current Walmart greeters...that's just not for me)........