Taylor Travel Tales

My friend Jenny told me that she wrote find personal trainer at the top of her to do list for three weeks straight and never did it. Then, she said that she saw her reflection in a store window one day while sipping on a soft drink and realized that she really needed to get some help before it was too late. She walked directly to a gym nearby and asked to speak with any of the personal fitness trainers that were on hand to discuss what they thought she needed to do.

I guess that was over four years ago and she has since lost fifty pounds and kept it off. I am not sure if she is telling me this because she thinks that I need to write find personal trainer on my to do list or what. Maybe she just tells lots of people this story because she is so proud. Either way, I already have been working with some of the best personal fitness trainers at my gym and have just started to see results, which I have no intention of telling Jenny because I do not want her to compare my weight loss to hers. I hope to lose just twenty pounds and keep it off forever also.

The plumbing fixtures company that I have used in the past has recently gone out of business and now I need to find someone else to order the new waterfree urinal from. I saw the waterfree urinal advertised somewhere online when I was thinking about remodeling my restrooms in my office but was not sure how long it would be until I could actually start the project.

I had gotten some prices from the plumbing fixtures company that I had previously used but I also know that not everyone’s prices are the same. I may be able to take the price list I have into a new company and see if they will match it but if they know that the company it came from is out of business, and then I will probably be out of luck.

I am thinking that since I finally have the money to do the remodeling, I may just put the waterfree urinal at the top of the list for must haves and then cut out something else if I cannot find it at a company that is willing to deal or come even close to the price that I had before. Either way, I will get the waterfree urinal, but I just do not want to have to spend more than I need to.

I know that it takes time to get a website at the top of the search engines but I never figured that I would still be on page four hundred and fifty five after two years. I called the guy who had designed the site and asked him if he could suggest some things for me to do to get it ranking better. He asked me if I had done any work to the site or had done any link building since he designed it. I had to answer no to both of the questions and he told me that I was just sitting on a gold mine and that I should start doing some one way links and looking into some SEO marketing also.

I had no idea what one way links were or SEO marketing but I planned on finding out very soon. I typed link building into the search engine and found tons of companies that would handle all of it for you and you just paid them for however many links you wanted to build.

I then looked into SEO marketing and again hired a company to do that for me also. I think that after the link building and SEO marketing campaigns are finished, I will be able to see some changes in the rankings. I guess that you can just continually do one way links until you get the ranking you are looking for.

The last thing that we need this week is for one of the poweredge servers to go down, and it seems like that is going to be inevitable. The oldest one has been going offline by itself all day and we have to keep resetting it. I think that it is only a matter of time before this office comes to a complete halt.

I have tried to call the dell repair man that has fixed it before but he is not answering his phone. I think that since it is so close to the holidays, he may have taken a vacation or something since he has always been easy to reach before.

If the poweredge servers do go down before the end of the workday, then I am planning on just sending everyone home early for Christmas break. It will probably upset some of my workers who cannot afford to lose and hours of pay during this time. It is possible that we may just have a miracle and the servers will stay up and running for the rest of the day and then I can possibly find a different dell repair service to come in before we get back up and running after the holidays.

I wanted to be able to order all the new fancy scanning cash registers like everyone else had but I just knew that I could not afford it. I had owned my store for twenty years and had upgraded the cashier lanes only once. I had to do it when people started using debit and credit cards all the time but now with the touchable screens and the new fancy credit card readers, I was behind the times.

I knew that if I could find a way to upgrade, I would so when my son told me that there was a company online that sold used pos equipment at about a seventy percent savings to new equipment. I figured that it was worth a look but did not think that I could afford it. I was shocked when I started seeing the used point of sale equipment prices and the quality of it all.

I found that I could actually afford to purchase some new systems and move into the twenty first century with my store. I know that all my employees and my customers will be impressed with the new system. They all might have to be patient with learning the new system from the used point of sale equipment company but I will take care of that. I was just happy that I finally found an affordable company like the used pos equipment one.

I may be able to afford some different servers after all. I had been really worried when my technicians suggested that I buy some new servers but after doing that over ten years ago and remembering how much it had cost me then, I just knew that I could not afford it at this time.

I called the technicians into my office to see if they thought we had any other options than new servers and they said that we could checkout used servers that had been refurbished. The used servers would probably be about half the cost of new ones, they thought. I was happy to hear this and they showed me a site that sold used poweredge servers for great prices.

I went from thinking there was no way I could afford the servers, to being able to get two much bigger used poweredge servers to install in the office. This way, the used servers would not have to work near as hard as the smaller ones that were currently installed. I was happy that I sat down and talked to my technicians or else I would have been stressing about it for a long time still trying to figure out where to get the money for some new ones.

The last thing that I needed to be worrying about before I left on vacation was the used proliant servers that the computer shop sold us going down. I knew when I bought them, that the deal was too good to be true. I paid about one third of the price for a new one when I got these and they had a warranty of one year. It has been about one year and two months, so I guess that it is time for them to crap out.

I called the computer shop and they told me that they would come out and look them over and see what they could do. When the technician finished looking at them, he told me that it would be cheaper to buy new used hp servers than to fix the ones that I already had. He told me that I should not buy the ones from his company but I should check out this website that sold used proliant servers that had been refurbished. He asked me not to tell his boss that he had given me the name of the other company, and I told him that I would not.

I found many different kinds of used hp servers on the site and they all looked much nicer than the used ones I had gotten before. I placed an order and put my secretary in charge of calling the technician when they came in to have them installed. I was able to make my flight for my vacation just in time.

My buddy at work belonged to a different Scottsdale basketball league team than I did and he never wants to tell me if they won their game over the weekend or not. I can only think then that they are a horrible team and that he is just embarrassed. My Scottsdale adult basketball league team is not that great, but I have no problem in telling him if we win or lose.

I always give him the chance to tell me if they won or lost, but I can always find out with checking the Scottsdale adult basketball league website that has all the standing on it. I guess that maybe he does not know about it because when I tell him that I just found out his score every week, he just looks at me with confusion like, how did he do that.

I am looking forward to my game in the Scottsdale basketball league this week, because I will be playing against my old buddy from works team. I guess that I do not have to check the website this week since I will already know that score. I am hoping that we win and that I can go around bragging because if he wins, I am sure that he still will not want anyone to know the score of the game.