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My wife wanted to go to Branson so I took Monday off work, left early on Friday and we spent a long weekend there. (I don't like to post "gonna be out of town" stuff ahead of time, only after the fact.) Didn't do anything grandiose, just shopping, eating out & general driving around looking at things, but she enjoyed getting out. Our sons are both currently in that general area, and they met us for sunday dinner on father's day, which I suspect was my wife's real reason for wanting to go in the first place. Got back early enough for me to spend some time doing minor chores around the house yesterday; now, have to play catch-up at work.
In the process of getting new contracts (monitoring, inspections, etc) in place with 730 of our customers, to help smooth things out for prospective buyers of the business, on top of it also being our busiest month of the year anyway. We do annual fire alarm testing for several school districts, and state law now mandates that all that school fire alarm testing be done and reports filed by June 30; so when the schools won't let you do testing until after the students are gone on summer break, it means that June is largely tied up with school fire-alarm testing, making it far & away our busiest month even without the contract craziness we're doing at the same time. Five-page contracts for ~730 customers, filled out, sent out to the customers for their signatures, (literally thousands of dollars in postage alone with the pre-stamped return envelopes we included), answering phone calls about the contract from seemingly half of those customers (mostly on my cell to keep some of the burden off of our office manager), receiving the contracts back, scanning them into the computer and emailing copies to our broker to document for prospective buyers that we have them on hand. So far, all are sent out, 120 are back, scanned in and emailed out, probably 80-100 more are back but yet to be scanned, and another 20-30 that are back but have to be re-done due to signatures in the wrong place, etc.
I miss when I used to work 50-hour work weeks, but it'll be worth it in the long run. The longer this drags out, the more attractive the idea of moving to either Quintana Roo or Belize looks.
In the process of getting new contracts (monitoring, inspections, etc) in place with 730 of our customers, to help smooth things out for prospective buyers of the business, on top of it also being our busiest month of the year anyway. We do annual fire alarm testing for several school districts, and state law now mandates that all that school fire alarm testing be done and reports filed by June 30; so when the schools won't let you do testing until after the students are gone on summer break, it means that June is largely tied up with school fire-alarm testing, making it far & away our busiest month even without the contract craziness we're doing at the same time. Five-page contracts for ~730 customers, filled out, sent out to the customers for their signatures, (literally thousands of dollars in postage alone with the pre-stamped return envelopes we included), answering phone calls about the contract from seemingly half of those customers (mostly on my cell to keep some of the burden off of our office manager), receiving the contracts back, scanning them into the computer and emailing copies to our broker to document for prospective buyers that we have them on hand. So far, all are sent out, 120 are back, scanned in and emailed out, probably 80-100 more are back but yet to be scanned, and another 20-30 that are back but have to be re-done due to signatures in the wrong place, etc.
I miss when I used to work 50-hour work weeks, but it'll be worth it in the long run. The longer this drags out, the more attractive the idea of moving to either Quintana Roo or Belize looks.