My family gets pretty annoyed with me at this time of year. They get tired or hearing “This is the last time in 2009 that I…” So, to all my readers — yes, all three of you — this is the last time in 2009 that I’ll post in my blog. Not to worry, I’m sure I’ll have a few things to say over on facebook throughout the day today as we try to get everything out of our petri dish of a building. It is going to be a long day.
To prepare for our move out, we’ve been cleaning our home office. That will become the center of our business. Our plan is operate ForYourSalon.com and continue to serve our local customers (salons, barbershops, spas, senior care facilities, and individual stylists,) delivering their orders to them. Delivering to our customers isn’t new, our top 10 customers never set foot into our building. They would simply phone or fax their orders in. Our challenge will be to convert those customers who would come into the store multiple times per week (some, multiple times per day) because we were close by. It won’t be easy, but it is better than spending all day in that building with all the mold and mushrooms.
As were cleaning the office, we’re coming across things that we should have thrown out or recycled long ago. Like tickets, with parking, to the 2003 NHL Eastern Conference Finals. The Flyers were bounced in the semis by Ottawa. I didn’t go to any of the playoffs that year, or since. I had eye surgery in February that year and only went to one game after it as a season ticket holder (it was 1 April vs. Columbus — Jeremy Roenick bobble head night. Eliz and I stayed until the end of the first period when it was clear I’d have a better chance at growing new hair on my bald head than I would seeing the game.) Then there’s the Dreamweaver 2.0 guide, complete with a 3 1/2″ floppy disk! You would have thought that I would have gotten rid of that after I purchase the Dreamweaver 3.0 Bible or the Dreamweaver MX 2004 book. That scenario repeated over and over again with Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXpress, and a few other programs. Why I still have the box and manual to the Canon A40 I purchased in 2002 is beyond me. I guess I wanted to take advantage of the whopping two megapixels. It is amazing what we’ve saved over the years.
I’m looking forward to turning the page to 2010; I wish you a happy and healthy year. Of course, I’ll be back with a post in a day or two. That will be the first time in 2010 that I’ll post to my blog…