Gibber-gabber

This is the first of many musings for this journey, affectionately dubbed (by necessity for my registration with CouchSurfing.org), “Friends, family, & head clearing in 30 days or less.” Many updates to my trip will be posted to various social networks throughout each day but every so often I will be posting these longer updates.

I am a huge fan of Ice Cream! I remember when I was young we had a hand crank ice cream maker, I wanted Ice cream all the time and my Dad would only bring it out about once a year! I finally tried the UCO Ice Cream ball this past weekend! And WOW! Talk about easy and fun!

Hmmmm….I can hear it now…the kids of the future using the term “round up ready” to talk about any and all trees, just the way we use the terms Xerox or Kleenex. Mega-corporate owned forests! John Muir we need you now!

Max the Golden Retriever shares his point of view of a recent road trip he took with his “people”, Stacy and Buddy. In Max’s own bark, “WOOF, WOOF AND A BIG SLOPPY KISS FROM YOUR’S TRULY THE ONE THE ONLY COOLEST AND GREATEST GOLDEN RETRIEVER ON THE PLANET MAX!”

Daniel Diener discusses the importance of small business bookkeeping. Not just for taxes and payroll, but in helping to determine your most profitable product and improving the marketing of it.

Some tips on how to manage your books so that you stay on top and find success.

Customers come from the people who have never done it before and people who have done it before but are unhappy with the way they are doing it. You aren’t going to steal a competitors happy customers and the unhappy ones won’t come unless you offer something unique.

Candlepower has been used for a long time to convey the brightness intensity and luminescence of flashlights and other lights. The only problem is that it is not a scientific measurement and has been used by some companies to grossly exaggerate the brightness of their lights with absurdly large “candlepower” numbers.

My Cousin shared this with me and I thought I would pass along. A special thank you goes out to each of our men and women in uniform. Both past and present!

Sales down? Maybe you need to bring this guy in for your next sales meeting.

A WW2 vet decided he would raise money to train Goldens and Labradors to help these heroes, with us, trained service dogs. As you know, demand for our unique services has been overwhelming. Max the Golden Retriever tells us all about it.

Wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen this post on the Coast to Coast website. ;)

This truck actually runs on wood.

This article was in the Los Angeles Times on Sunday, June 13, 2010. It helps to remind us of the gravity of these spills.

Setting up the books. Data entry and filing. Analysis of what that data means.