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Wednesday, February 8, 2017

February Warm

Shorts in February, Yeah, it has been that kind of a winter. Yesterday saw the temperature around 60 degrees. Today is more of the same, so I have been breaking out the summer clothes. Amazingly, it is supposed to snow tomorrow with about one inch accumulation. I have my doubts about the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, February 7, 2017

The Competition That Wasn't

I am going to start this series on Dad's competitors, both former and current, with a competitor who never was. Jack Roland was the landlord at Location Z's property. He also owned the used car lot next door. The way Dad and Jack negotiated their deal was that after a few years, Dad could purchase... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, February 6, 2017

Incredible

My off day was all about the Super Bowl. Incredible is the word that comes to mind from the Patriots record setting 25 point comeback to it being the first overtime Super Bowl game to Tom Brady becoming the first quarterback to win 5 Super Bowls. What a game. Brian Gabber is now trained enough to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, February 4, 2017

The Competition Series

Something that I have not written much about over the years has been Dad's competition. Most of the big events over the years have happened due to internal factors or non-external factors. That is not to say, though, that there have not been competitors who have affected business. Even if a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Not Quiet at the End

Things were quiet at work until the last hour. I received a couple of calls from some customers who had had an issue with one of Location C's automatic touch frees. I gave them codes to use on the other one. One of the customers had trouble following the instructions, plus there was a lot of noise.... Sign in to see full entry.

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