Buy buy buy! Make up for the money I did not spend as I did not see any deals that sparked my interest. So this year, my money will stay mine, for now at least. 
Monthly Archive for November, 2008
It has been some crazy hot and dry weather out here in Sothern California. Generally it is quite cooler and a tad-bit rainy during winter, but this year has been ridiculous. Must be all that “global warming” that is killing us, right? I do not really know, but the weather sucks, and a lot of people lost their homes in the recent fires. Hopefully everything will revert to how it was when the economy was better, weather was cooler (in winter) and life was just that much easier.
Life has been slow and stressful for me lately, but the time seems to pass quickly. I am trying to keep myself busy and open-minded, but business has been slow; but hopefully after the end of this year it will pick back up. Adding to the stress, Cindy and I found a condo that we are extremely excited for. We put a very firm offer on it and we should be hearing back from the bank if they accepted the offer or not by the end of tomorrow. I really hate the waiting game, we were supposed to be in escrow over a week ago, but things fall through. I guess that is part of the process though, I would not really know as this is my first time buying a home.
That is my update for now, more soon.
After a month of dread, fear, apprehension and whatever other word you may want to include… One of my clients has successfully moved from a T1 connection to a Fiber connection with Cox Business Services.
It took:
- Two weeks to get contracts signed by building owners, tenants and so forth
- Two and a half to three weeks for construction
- Ten minutes to change over to the internet
- One hour to test and port phone numbers
- Twenty minutes to configure the phone server for the new setup
It was a good experience, and taught me a lot about how phone PRI’s work from the carrier to the client and everything between. I think the coolest part about this experience was seeing how the fiber is cut and bonded with their machine that costs $15,000. I also feel pretty accomplished because I managed the whole project from beginning to end and everything turned out to work just fine, with very little interruption to the client.
Now to tackle the hundreds of other items on my plate…