Full Version: Snake oil
From: LaZerDude (C_BURKE) [#30]
8 Jun 2005
To: basehorawards [#29] 8 Jun 2005
James,
I don't know your situation, but it hardly seems a mess. Self employed? Shop on your property? Time with you kids? How cool is that. Personally I think your former employer had his head so far up his butt he was looking out his nostrils.
Anyway, when you are the pool, put the trade rags down, let your voice mail do it's thing, get IN the pool, cool off and play with you boys, ( unless they are playing with girls of course). It will make you feel better too.
How does it work for anyone else? It doesn't matter as long as it works for you. Pretty soon, you boys will not want to go to the pool with their old man....so DO IT!!!!
In my previous life, I used to worry about work all the time, when we did not have any I would go pound the pavement, my wife, who ran the business with me would go to, griping all the way, saying we should enjoy the time off, but Noooooooooooooo I had to go get more work...oh for the times we could have had. Another friend of mine, a doctor, always told himself he would make time to play golf when he retired...well he is retired, but hurt his back and can't play golf..... today, right now, this minute is ALL we have...... lets go swimming!!!!!
Again, just my two cents.
EDITED: 8 Jun 2005 by C_BURKE
From: basehorawards [#31]
8 Jun 2005
To: LaZerDude (C_BURKE) [#30] 8 Jun 2005
Chuck,
Two things I don't do in public: sing and go around without a shirt.
And the world is a better place for it. :-)
Thanks for your kind words and all the advise you have given and asked for. We all have such a great opportunity to learn from the questions of others.
From: LaZerDude (C_BURKE) [#32]
8 Jun 2005
To: basehorawards [#31] 8 Jun 2005
Well James,
Is the a rule in the pool ( HA! I'm a poet and didnt know it, my feet are Longfellows ) about swimming WITH a shirt? ( insert laugh here)
From: basehorawards [#33]
8 Jun 2005
To: LaZerDude (C_BURKE) [#32] 8 Jun 2005
Yea no shirts in the pool. Might be too heavy and make someone drown. They empty out the pool at least once an hour to check for bodies ???
I have never been much of a water person so I am not missing anything. Do like the beaches of the panhandle of Florida - or I did until Hurricane Ivan took out the condos my mother-in-law used to rent for two weeks every summer for us to enjoy. Of course I don't get two weeks vacation anymore anyway. Do take a week for Boy Scout camp every summer. Not really vacation but well worth the time.
From: LaZerDude (C_BURKE) [#34]
8 Jun 2005
To: basehorawards [#33] 8 Jun 2005
James,
I didn't think the boy scouts let people your age in :D (insert laugh here).
From: Dee (DEENA-ONLY) [#35]
8 Jun 2005
To: basehorawards [#23] 10 Jun 2005
James,
Speaking as a grandmom take the boys to the pool and enjoy them. You can answer your cell or let the voice mail take a message. My guess is that your customers will probably be jealous of where you are. Anyway, who says you have to tell them. Put a headset on your cell and they'll never know - but your kids will always remember the things they did with dad.
Dee
From: jbrewer (JEANETTEBREWER) [#36]
9 Jun 2005
To: basehorawards [#25] 10 Jun 2005
We have a trade show in Galveston, TX, every summer (I'm hoping to see many of y'all there!). We are distributors for two different manufacturers so we have two booths to set up. While daddy is setting up one of the booths, Randy is setting up the other booth. Where am I? At the beach with the kids (with my cell phone nearby)!
Shhh! Both Randy & daddy think I'm hard at work at the other booth. My secret's safe with you, right? ;-)
EDITED: 9 Jun 2005 by JEANETTEBREWER
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