This site has a totally new look as Janine Stecca thought the old one was looking unprofessional…
The Book of Cool
Buy it!
It will make you realize you are a klutz and you need to start doing things with your life. Even if they’re goofy things likely to make your nose bleed and sprain your back.
Now on WordPress 2.0
Did the upgrade. It didn’t explode. Old stuff still there.
Maturity
Dear Abby has a little letter on the end of today’s column about maturity. I don’t want to forget it so here is the definition of maturity as penned by Dear Abby’s mother.
This is maturity: to be able to stick with a job until it’s finished; to do one’s duty without being supervised; to be able to carry money without spending it; and to be able to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
The new WH2P site!
As of today it’s live. I suspect some clients and friends might actually see the link at the end of the about me and click through to the Pooleworks site to find out more about me. And then actually see this blog.
(Well, hello and how are ya?!)
You might also click on the flickr tag up there to the right to see family photos.
Quotes
Serves me right. Can’t say anything profound.
A witty saying proves nothing.
Voltaire
French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 – 1778)
This is the path to creativity
Sometimes when trying to come up with an new view on something it helps to take a look at it from all sides.
How many ways can you beat an idea to death.
Creepy Sales Pitch
I recently decided to get new gutters for the house. I’d had a handyman/laborer make an offer a year ago to redo the entire house for $750. But I decided to go with the big guys, you know the guys with the advertising and the trucks and the guarantees.
We made an appointment for Saturday at 9:00. Unbeknownst to me, my wife had an appointment to have her hair done at that time. But that shouldn’t be a big deal. If they’d come in under perhaps $1200, I could have written a check right there.
At 9:00 two young-ish (30+) year old guys with the seemingly prerequisite cell phones strapped to belts and shiny shoes show up. They had parked in a rather awkward place to leave a car just out side my driveway. It was all I could do to keep the dogs from going nuts all over them. George didn’t care, just throw the f#*king ball, please.
When they learned that Beth wasn’t going to be there for the sale, they completely fell apart. One guy immediately called his boss saying “the wife isn’t here!” “the wife isn’t here! She left for a hair dresser appointment!”
When I explained I’d like to hear their presentation and we quickly walked around the house and we all pointed out trouble areas with my current gutter situation. (It had rained recently and there were plenty of problems.) I thought they would get down to business, make some measurements and price some options. But no. The leader of this group said “You don’t understand. The number they would give me would only be good today.” He finally went into a spiel about how they had diligently made it there for the appointment and that Beth had let us all down by not being there. Basically blaming her.
That’s just ridiculous.
I reached over and shook his hand and said “that’s just creepy that you can’t present it to me. No thank you and good bye.” They politely departed to their car where they seemed to spend the next 20 minutes on their phone and then they left.
Since that day, their schedulers have called me twice at work to reschedule. When I explained the situation to one (Female, I believe black? Sorry to sound so racist.) that I felt their presentation practice was sexist, she giggled and said she understood and hung up.
GutterGuard from Dixie Home Crafters Inc. www.gutterguard.net
In the next month, I figure on dropping $15,000 on the house to do new windows and surprise, new gutters. From some other company. I really hope that GutterGuard’s sales manager loses his job.
Quotes
My website opens with random quotes from famous people. They’re all reviewed by me and selected as statements I agree with. I recently said something so profound about something I almost feel I should add it into the cover quotes.
Cheap, cheap, cheap always leads to expensive.