Nelson

Hi everyone!
I just had to blog today, 1) because it's probably my turn, and 2) because it's been a couple of days since the last time either of us posted anything on the blog.

I swear the last five days have been a stress-wad for me. On Saturday I spent basically the entire day reformatting the harddrive on my computer, and then of course re-installing all of the software that was on it before the reformat job. Ugh. Then I found out that iTunes doesn't work on my computer anymore, so I've been fighting with that, trying to get it to work. Maybe later tonight, I'll get it figured out and get it installed.

For the last few days, I've been fighting some pretty bad e-mail troubles, and this morning due to an email glitch I had (by the way, my web host and email server for my company is Dotster.com, based in Vancouver . . . in case any of you are looking for such service . . . they're overextended when it comes to the equipment on hand, and their customer service isn't all that great), I missed a conference call that one of my newer clients had asked me to be on. That really bothered me, so I made arrangements to move my company's website and email to another host. It was pretty frustrating, the whole thing.

If you're a long-time reader of our blog, you know how important quality customer service is to me, and because I'm in the marketing/public relations business, I was sure to let Dotster know that word of mouth PR is the one kind of PR that can make them or break them . . . yet they still decided to not make things right for me. Oh well. Their loss, not mine.

Yesterday, we checked our propane supply and saw that the tank was getting pretty low. It just so happened that a propane delivery truck go down our street so I wandered down to talk to the guy and see what they had to offer. Here in Mesa there's a law that RV's can't have their propane tanks filled within the park, so there's lots of delivery of these huge tanks that last like three weeks for $60. Ugh. Anyway, long story short, the guy was very friendly and nice and when he looked at our setup, he said we could just get a regular 5-gallon tank (like the ones you use for your barbeque), and hook that up and we'd be good to go. Our only other realistic option was to pack up the RV as if we were going to move and take it to a propane filling station. Deep breath here . . . and OK, so it's not so much "long story short". Anyway, yesterday afternoon I went out and found us a propane tank. Cost me a total of $50 to get the filled tank. Brought it back to the RV and of course, it didn't work. Not enough pressure, I think. So we stressed out all evening about whether we'd have heat through the night and even turned off the water heater so that we wouldn't waste propane on hot water. LOL. But the whole problem was solved today when the doggies and I took "Myrtle" down the road while Dawn was out scrapbook shopping to fill up with propane, and the whole saga is now done and over with. Oh, by the way, we made it through the night with heat, and just barely enough propane.

Today I found out that one of my existing clients has a BUNCH of work for me to do, and I'm thrilled! We're going someplace now, I think! BTW, if any of you are in Vancouver Mall around meal time, or just feel like a little Ice Cream, be sure to stop in at All American Deli & Ice Cream. I promise you won't be disappointed! My favorites there are the hot fudge sundae and the Turkey-Cranberry sandwich. That's a good lunch!

Anyway, I've got lots of work to do, not only for All American, but also for RCU, ERCU, PhoenixLaw, and for my own company. :)

We both hope that all of you are doing well. We're having a good time.