posted 04-24-2005 04:03 PM                  

...return to Indiana last night and as Gomer Pyle used to say "surprise surprise", snow again !!!...so I rushed out at 8am this morning still barefooted and got these shots, the snow was gone less than an hour later...

posted 04-24-2005 04:05 PM                    

glad to see ya back....

missed your photographic injections...

posted 04-24-2005 04:54 PM                  

the last few days before leaving on Saturday morning...

* switched credit card companies in all our stores March 1, 2005...find out last week just before leaving ALL electronic sales in one store were being deposited in another businesses account(a competitor at that)...I was showing a big balance and had checks bouncing....got that straightened out while in Ca....
* Phillip Morris decides to audit 5 of my Indiana stores(pain in the a$$)...
* R.J.Reynolds seems to have misplaced $20-25K of my money from one store(still have no resolve on this one)but I will this week....
* get a letter in the mail for an IRS audit(we do every 2 years it seems)...always get an A+, but it is laborious and time comsuming....still working on that one today....

* Thursday before leaving , my mother is admitted to the hospital for emergency heart problems...

* Thursday before leaving, find a nursing home that will admit my dad for short time therapy while she is in the hospital....

* remodeling project at my home at a crucial point needing lots of input....

...I had free air tickets and came very close to just trashing them I was so pi$$ed off before leaving....but California was great, just what the doctor ordered.....promise to return, maybe this summer....we had no reservations and ended up staying at the Hilton/Universal City all week....great place, great location to see what I wanted to see.....couldn't have worked out better....tomorrow is Monday, and I will be on the phone ranting at several companies bright and early, at 8am...larry

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Originally posted by Orange:
TUIB,

I am upset at you, you could have let us know you were going to be in So. Cal....

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posted 04-24-2005 06:32 PM                    

best wishes for you mother.....everything else can be fixed easily - or if not, it's just money.

I hope your mother gets well soon.

posted 04-24-2005 07:05 PM                  

Hope your mother is doing better and your father is getting along ok!

Since you'll be on the phone at 8am on monday,,,I'll call ya @ 7:55am and tie up your phone line so you can't make those important calls, lol.

posted 04-24-2005 08:13 PM                  

...all the things in business always get fixed, thats been my job for 30 years...it was just unusual to have so many fires to put out in such a short time....things that happen rarely, or never, all happened that one week.....