Fishless Friday

Friday is supposed to be a great day. Sometimes it is. Not so sure today. I had planned on getting up super early and heading up the hill to go skiing with nephews and bro in law. But, instead, I slept late and went nowhere. Mostly due to having a sore back and neck. I can’t turn my head to the left without spasms in my neck. Skiing seems a bad idea.

Normal morning, nothing unusual. New coffeemaker still working very well. Looks like a keeper.

Managed to get ready reasonably quickly. I used some of my new stocking gifts getting ready. My stocking Santa gave me a shaving brush and mug and I tried it out today. Works fine but the soap in the mug dries out very fast on the face. The canned shaving cream works better albeit at a much higher price. But, as far as shaving goes, the analog version does work fine. Just keep reapplying.

I went to work. Not up the hill. So I did make the meeting that was scheduled for my office. See, a client was meeting with my associate Hal at 11. It was not necessary for me to be there but since no skiing, I might as well go. The meeting was reasonably successful, we may have turned our client in the correct direction for his plan. God I hope so.

Worked the rest of my day. I think I must have received 20 phone calls. That means I need to call back and get a call while calling back and on and on. Took forever to get that done. Sadly, I had an appointment with the owners of a new tire store. And they were in the office till almost 6. I think they forgot what day it is. They had come in at 430 and a few minutes into the meeting I received another call. Some guy from Germany Cara told me. Turns out it’s a guy I paid for a client. I don’t know him. He called and wanted to borrow money. Ya, I am gonna do that. Funny thing, the client I made the payment for called on my other line and I had to answer (remember, I got 3 people watching me) and basically got the two fools to call each other. And not talk to me.

Back to the meeting. We discussed the minutiae of running a tire shop. Problem: there are no minutiae. They were mired in the details of it, having never owned a business before, and over thinking the whole thing. So I answered rather inane questions for an hour. Then the one of the three who owned part of the tire shop left. Turns out the other two own a small restaurant, not open yet, and they had very few questions. An improvement. I guess this referral is a two-fer. They finally left at about 6. I don’t even have a phone number. It’s ok. They were referred so I can call them.

I left immediately after they did, headed home.

Trip home was one long phone call. I called back a contractor and he talked my ear off for 40 minutes. Yikes. Followed by a 10 minute call to another client. Only got off due to the horrible connection. But that’s ok.

Got home and we made dinner. Dogs and chili with potatoes. We did not go out on Friday. I love this new skip Friday out thing. Makes me happy.

Now sitting and watching TV. Normal evening. Soon I can go to bed. Very nice. Looking forward to it.