First, say hello to Pudding-Tat, Empress of all she surveys. Note her throne is the spare speakers. Also shown is how she has used the speakers to sharpen her claws. People could say I’ve spoiled her, allowing such a thing to happen. I look at it another way. Do you have any idea what those cat posts cost at the store? Well, these speakers only cost me twenty bucks. So there.
Financially the day was unsuccessful, but good salesmen are used to that. With Ramada (the company I work with, but not the Ramada you are thinking of), income is a function of time put in, not really skill. I have always been an amateur salesman as anybody who ever saw me around good women will handily testify. I’m learning to get pushy with the men who get their wives to call, where the wife can say she has to ask him and he “isn’t home right now”. (Remember that I’ve previously got her to state that she was the one who made the decisions. Lying has a different effect when women do it, or at least they like to think so.)Actually, I did have one sale, a small one. But the guy backed out during verification, which is nearly impossible to do. I am pitching the average client up to a half-hour each, well more than the ten minutes allocated. I often wonder, if I got the right product, what I could sell, and no, that is not the lament of every salesman. I don’t mean it that way. What I mean is a product where sales are dependent more on my calm presentation through all manner of emotional objections.
One thing about the job is that it matches my circadian rhythm quite well. I mean that I don’t need any clocks or reminders to fit the schedule and I’m guessing I’ve used the correct term. For some reason, what I thought was a classical word is not in the Big Dictionary. By circadian, I mean the 24 hour cycle of light/dark wake/sleep. I don’t really use the term that often. How about you?
I’ve negotiated the price on the new trailer to $18,000 depending on it passing a series of measurements and some questions. I need the meeting minutes and the land agreement, but apparently the land is owned by the trailer association, not an independent landlord. Still, I will need to see the ink. They cannot sell the land without offering it to the residents first. I do not know if that offer would be collective or individual. I know better than to count on a group of people to do anything but look for the easy way out.
Who likes medical details? Not me. I was in for a checkup today and the blood pressure in my left arm is higher than in my right arm. Both are higher than they should be after years of no-stress and casual living. The reason I went in was to get a referral to a dermatologist. Ten years of Florida sun and bike riding has made me a little over-exposed. I just know that specialist is going to cost me. Since a blood test can show anything that ever affected me [anyway], I opted for that as well.
There was discussion at the shop about the miracle million, the toothpicks. As it represents something no other person has ever done, we get occasionally to thinking of how to cash in on it. Without gambling (which is prohibited unless you own a big establishment) there is nothing easy about it at all. We need some major marketing that nobody around here knows how to do. To any newcomers, I own a display of one million toothpicks, the only known display in the history of the universe that contains exactly one million of anything hand-counted that you can see all in one layer. (All three conditions must be met.) Yes, I know about the pyramids, but the most you can see at once from the ground are two sides with (I estimate) merely 60,000 stones visible. Nowhere near a million.
I’ve discovered a nasty way to infiltrate Internet postings. Like many hacks, it was the result of trying to correct one thing when another went wrong. It is also simple, so it will be exposed soon. Meanwhile, I am using it for a very specific purpose, which is to create hell with people who post jobs that do not quote the rate of pay. That particularly means the jerks who put “DOE”. Employers should add a table of what the different levels of experience [that they are seeking] each pay, or if they can’t do that, post a separate job listing for each level of experience sought. Another target is the people who post bill collecting jobs under “accountants and bookkeepers”. If you disagree, you may get a surprise you just were not expecting and you’ll have to find a whiz kid to bail you out.
Oh, and yes, somebody did quickly figure out my last hack. You go in there and delete the anchor words that linked to flagging on Craigslist. You would still see the flagging box, but no words inside to click on. All I know for certain is that I could give you a list of people who did not figure it out.
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