January 20th, 2010
I started out the New Year with a list of things that I wanted to do. I knew that I needed to find a personal trainer and start working out more and eating better. My sister told me that when she set out to find a personal trainer, it took her a couple of tries to find just the right one but she has lost over thirty pounds in just six months by following the right eating and exercise plan that her trainer sets for her.
I looked up a personal trainer directory that has all the personal trainers that are local that have taken the time to be on the site and put them all together. I saw the name of my sister’s personal trainer on there but she was about three hours away and that was just not going to work. I decided to try out three of the names on the personal trainer directory and go with the one that I liked the best. I did not want to waste a lot of time but still wanted to be comfortable with my choice.
If you are looking to find a good personal trainer then you should ask your local gyms if they know of any personal trainer directories for your area and then find one that is best for you.
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January 19th, 2010
I have seen some pretty fancy things in my life, but finding out that the neighbors are installing a waterfree urinal into their master bathroom made me interested. I had never heard of a waterfree urinal before and decided to look them up on the internet to figure out how they worked. I found several companies that sold them, but not too many that were local. I assumed that our neighbor was using the only local company that had a website advertising the waterfree urinal.
The amount of water that can be saved was all explained on the plumbing fixtures page of the local people’s website. I cannot believe that I spent two hours reading all about it and I am not even getting one. My wife would never allow any type of urinal in our master bathroom, waterfree or not.
I did however ask the neighbor exactly when they were having the installation done and he told me that he had to wait for about three to four weeks for it to come in and then the plumbing fixtures company told him that they would schedule installation for shortly after that. I did not want to use it or anything, that would just be rude but I did want to see it once it had been installed and the neighbor guy told me that it would be fine.
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January 5th, 2010
I just received a call from out store in Chicago; they are having a lot of trouble with their poweredge servers and cannot get a dell repair service to come out till Monday to check them out. I knew that there was no way they could go almost a week with faulty servers, so I called in a few favors. My brother lives about two hours from that store and he has a brother in law that is just as close, who is a dell repair man.
I made the phone call to my brother and explained the situation of how the store was having difficulty with their poweredge servers and asked if there was any way he could call his brother in law and beg him to drive the two hours to Chicago and repair the problem. He told me that he would try and I did not hear back from him for an hour.
In the end, my brother was able to get his brother in law to make the drive and repair the poweredge servers in the store. They are back up and running now and I am glad that I have such a great brother who was willing to help me.
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January 4th, 2010
I had a hard time finding used pos equipment products in my town and started to look on the internet for some companies that would offer the parts. It took me some time but I did find a used point of sale equipment company and they had incredible deals. In fact they had every product that I have ever used that is point of sale.
I started to use them for every time I needed some used point of sale equipment for my stores instead of driving around town trying to find them. I have given the name of the site to so many different retailers in my town that I think the people that own that site should give me a referral fee.
I am glad that I have found the used pos equipment site and have been able to cut down on all the expenses of searching for what I need. I think that if this site owner would put a store in all the big cities that they could double if not triple the sales for all their used point of sale equipment. All the people that have heard my idea of the big company opening up stores agree.
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December 31st, 2009
I was just surfing the web one day and came across a company that was going to make my life much simpler. I had been trying to get the purchase of new servers approved for the last six months with my boss and he always said that the money was not there. I understood that he was not willing to pay five thousand dollars apiece, but I had just discovered a company that sold used servers that had been refurbished for about one third of the five thousand dollars.
I sent him the link to the site, hoping that he would check it out over the weekend and then come in on Monday morning ready to buy. Of course, he was away from his computer all weekend and did not see it until he got to work that week. I knew that if he was not on board with the prices of these used poweredge servers, we would never ever get servers that could handle the workload this office puts on them.
He called me into his office to discuss the used poweredge servers and I was really nervous. He told me that if I could get the computer guys to agree to switch out the old servers and put in the used servers, that he would approve the purchase. It was extremely easy to get the computer tech’s to okay the switch since they were sick of being called in at all hours when the old servers would go down.
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December 30th, 2009
The used proliant servers that were advertised in the flyer as being on sale were completely gone ten minutes into the sale. I had stood outside with tons of people hoping to get a chance to buy one but when the store manager came out and told us that they only had about seventy five used proliant servers to sell, I knew that I might as well go home.
I drove back to my apartment to get online to find some kind of good deal for used hp servers that I really needed now since I had failed on getting one at the sale. I really thought that by getting there two hours before the doors opened, I would have a pretty good chance, but there must have been people there four to five hours earlier who thought the same thing that I had.
I was able to find a good website that sold refurbished used hp servers for some good prices, in fact they might have even been a little cheaper than what the sale servers would have been after tax and shipping though, I would probably pay a little more than ten percent more. I knew that it would still be a good buy and I would be happy with it when it was delivered.
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December 29th, 2009
There have been a record number of signups this year for the Scottsdale soccer league. I have played the past few years with my buddy Jon, but we have only been a part of it when there were about ten teams and this year, they have said that there will be thirty teams. We are going to go ahead and sign up as free agents this year so that we can possibly be put on a better team than we have had the past few years.
My thought about the thirty teams in the Scottsdale coed soccer league is that it will help the community to become aware of the great things the center is doing. Who knows, maybe next year we will have forty or fifty teams on the Scottsdale soccer league. I am going to hope for a good team this year and then possibly next year, with the growth, I can put together my own team.
After hearing all of my enthusiasm for the growth of the teams, the director of the Scottsdale coed soccer league has asked me to be on the advertising committee to help promote next year’s leagues and see if we can get more people to join.
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December 28th, 2009
My only hope for finding some winter toddler pajamas still for sale was to look online. I had been to every store within seventy five miles of our house and found that everyone had clearance out what they had left shortly after the holidays. They had put out the spring pajamas in early February.
I gave up on the search for toddler pajamas around our area and got online. I really had my heart set on footie pajamas and was not going to stop searching the internet until I found them. I knew that since the big stores had actual stores up north, they would still be selling footie pajamas if they had them in stock.
I typed toddler pajamas into the search bar and then modified it to only include footie pajamas. I was able to locate four different places within about twenty minutes of starting my search that had them in stock. I ordered four different pairs that my son would fit now and then bought a few for when he grows a bit so that I do not have to ever search like that again.
My son loved his new footie pajamas that I had gotten him to wear when we had those few cold nights here and the temperature dropped below freezing. He stayed cozy and warm in them.
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