01/20/2010
We were both looking through the personal trainer directory and wondering if we could find a personal trainer that would give us a discount for helping us both at the same time. My best friend and I really needed to do something about our weight, before we hit forty. We had both put on quite a bit of weight over the holidays and needed to take it off and start maintaining more.
The personal trainer directory did not have the prices of what we could expect to charge, so I looked online about what an average hourly fee would be and of course if varies by states and areas. I figured that if we thought we had to find a personal trainer that badly, we could afford almost anything they wanted to charge us as long as we got results.
I am looking forward to working on a new me, along with my friend and a personal trainer. There were so many names in the personal trainer directory, we just decided to attend a few different gyms and get to know the people on the list and then choose one that we were comfortable with and then ask about getting a two for one special.
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01/19/2010
The waterless urinal that was at the home improvement show had all the guys huddled over it in awe. I cannot believe how they all just stood around talking about how nice it would be to have one of those. It makes me wonder how many men actually have a urinal that is not waterless in their homes. Introduce a waterless urinal and all of a sudden men all over are looking to install new more masculine plumbing fixtures in their house.
I would love to talk with all these men’s wives, if they are married and see how many women would like to have the waterless urinal in their master bathrooms. I think that possibly the benefits of it would outweigh having to look at it. If it meant that I never had to worry about my husband putting the seat up or down again then I might consider redoing our plumbing fixtures. I will probably never admit this to my husband because if he started some sort of project in my bathroom, it would take months for it to be put back in order again.
Now, if he were to install a bathroom in the garage, then it would definitely be worth the headache of construction if it meant that all men visiting my house would use it.
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Webmaster — The Natural @ 3:16 pm
01/13/2010
I have been doing some research on the way that most companies handle their link building and am wondering how long we will be able to fool the search engines. They obviously have figured out reciprocal links and punish those sites that seem to be abusing them. I know that there is such a thing as a free one way link but in the fine print of that, I think you owe other people for helping you out, so they are not exactly free right?
Free one way link to me is kind of like you scratch someone’s back and then they scratch yours, I believe. I wonder how many times you can receive one way links from the same person before your link building is called into question. Maybe if there is a company watching all the back scratching then they make sure to mix everyone all up and then no one is the wiser. I just hope that they are watching very carefully while the links are passed all around, so no two get sent the same way.
So, I have decided to let my site do the normal climb up the search engines and not pay for any link building at all. I do ask for each of my customers to fill out a survey and attach a little paragraph about their experience with doing business with us though.
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01/05/2010
The dell repair place that I used online will talk you through any repairs that can be done by the owner at home or in the office. If they cannot help you fix it, they will have you ship it to their warehouse and they will fix it and ship it back to you very quickly. I have used the dell repair in both instances and have been happy both times.
The first time I used them was to fix my poweredge servers, when they kept powering themselves off. The technician on the other end of the line knew exactly what was wrong just by me giving him a description and talked me through the repair. I have not had any problems with it since.
The second time I had to call the dell repair line, I was not so lucky with fixing my printer over the phone. I had to pack it up and send it off to have the technicians look over it themselves. I guess that it must have been something very simple since they had it back to me within about thirty six hours of getting it.
I am glad that I have this repair shop to call when I need them. I always know that they will fix the problem one way or another.
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01/04/2010
I wanted to make sure that everything we needed like handheld scanners, credit card readers and up to date computerized cash registers were on the used point of sale equipment website. I had heard of it from a friend of mine, but was not too sure if I wanted to put used pos equipment in my store or not. He assured me that they also sold new pos equipment just in case I was not impressed with the quality of their used stuff.
I figured that it did not hurt to check out the used point of sale stuff even if I was not going to order it in the long run but after checking out the website, I found that their stuff, used and new was really nice and was very affordable. I liked the fact that they stood behind their products and gave you a guarantee; they also had a division of repair. I could send in anything that was not working properly and get it fixed and sent back within just a matter of days.
I decided to go ahead and save the money and buy used pos equipment from the site my friend had recommended. He was right about their products but I will never tell him that. My wife has plans for all the money we saved by buying new so she might end up being the one to thank him for us saving hundreds of dollars on the used products.
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12/31/2009
3. The Used Poweredge Servers Were Much Cheaper
The last time that our servers went down, I called the local computer store and asked them for a price on some new servers. When they gave me the price of the cheapest servers in the store, I wanted to fall off of my chair. I guess that when I bought this company, I should have had everything including the computer system checked out.
I asked the guy from the computer store what he would do if he could not afford new servers and he told me to check into used servers. I had never thought of that, but it sounded like a really good idea. He gave me the name of a good website that sold used poweredge servers and he thought that they were very affordable and would work very well for me.
I found the website very easily and checked out the prices on the used poweredge servers, it seemed like I could actually afford them. I did call my computer tech and discuss the fact that I was thinking about buying used servers and wanted to know if he would be alright installing them in place of the ones that kept going down. He assured me that it would all work out and he could install the used poweredge servers quickly without too much down time.
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12/30/2009
My father called me from a swap meet that he was attending down south and asked me if I could use some used proliant servers. I figured that since he knew I ran a used computer part store, he was always looking for a good deal on some parts. I asked him what kind of price they had on them and he said that he was just told to make an offer and they would be his.
He told me that the sign read used hp servers, and he knew that they must be in good shape by the look of the boxes. If they were still in boxes, I figured that they must be in really good shape, so I told him to start at five hundred dollars and then see how high the dealer would make him go.
He called me back within thirty minutes and said that the dealer made him a deal of two thousand dollars for every used proliant servers. My father figured that it was a good deal since there were at least ten of the used proliant servers in boxes there. I asked my father to try and ship the used hp servers up to me and I would pay him for the shipping and send out a check for the two thousand dollars at the end of the week.
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12/29/2009
My only hope for getting enough members to join my Scottsdale kickball league team was if my sister would say yes. My sister never played any sports growing up and hated to see any sporting event on our television set also. I knew that it was a long shot but I had to give it a try for the other people who wanted to be part of the Scottsdale adult kickball league.
We had only just heard of it about six weeks ago and went out and watched two of the teams play a game. It looked like so much fun that we all knew that we wanted to be part of it. When our friend Tim let us know that he could not do it because it conflicted with his bowling night, we knew that we needed to find someone to take his place. We all tried to get other friends and family to be part of our team on the Scottsdale kickball league but had no luck. I had not bothered my sister because I knew that she would not want to.
I figured that if I told my sister that she owed me for house sitting for her last month, it might work. I pleaded my case for her to join the Scottsdale adult kickball league and make our team complete, she laughed in my face and sent me on my way.
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Shopping — The Natural @ 9:27 pm
12/28/2009
The only thing that I forgot to pack for our trip up north was the footie pajamas that I had bought for the entire family from a really neat website. I found the site while just searching for boys pajamas but when I saw that they had sizes for everyone in footie pajamas, I just knew that I had to get them. I think that I got a pretty good deal since the most I paid for one pair was something like twenty dollars.
I figured that I might have a difficult time getting my husband and my teenage boys to put them on, but it was going to be fun trying, or so I thought.
I may see if the delivery schedule on the site where I originally got them would be able to get them to me at my parent’s house before Christmas Eve which is when I thought that we would all wear them. If I cannot get them then I will just check out some of the stores in the area and get them some nice fancy boys pajamas that are of a Christmas theme.
My parents would have gotten such a kick out of all of us walking out of our rooms wearing footie pajamas though, so I am still holding out hope that I can get an order in on time.
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Shopping — The Natural @ 5:14 pm
My whole company has put their entire lists of wants for office supplies on my desk and I now need to find a really good discount office supplies store to get them all from. Maybe if I find a good discount office supply company online then I can afford to get everything on everyone’s lists. I have already informed them all that I might have to cut the lists a little bit and just get the necessities for now but that I would try my best to get them completed.
A few of my employees have offered to share certain things like staples and reams of copy paper to help me out. I never thought that sales would be down so much that I would not be able to get the office supplies that everyone needs.
I know that I have seen online discount office supplies sites and had thought that they probably sell stuff that is not the best of quality. I was wrong though, because I just discovered a company that has all brand name office supplies but at discounted prices. I placed my order for everything and was happy when the total was not even half of what I thought it would be.
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