To update you on the condo/house search… Cindy and I found, what we thought was a great condo. We were about to go into escrow, but we decided to have another look at the condo, this time with our parents. Seeing the condo another time, at a different time of day, with a different perspective really changed things. There were a lot of costly issues that we missed the first time, mainly due to us only being there five minutes the first time.

Through this process we have learned a lot, mainly patience, but at least we walked away with more knowledge of this process. We are going to continue our search, continue saving our money to make this just that much easier and hopefully a better opportunity will cross our paths.

On another topic, while I sit here not doing much, I ended up purchasing a NetFlix subscription. It has a really cool integration with the Xbox 360; you can stream the videos seamlessly to your TV. I have to say the quality is outstanding; the only lacking feature is there is only 12,000 titles to choose from, which sounds like a lot but it really is not when a good deal of them are not the movies I am particularly interested in. Although I do have about 14 in my queue right now, with about 5 already watched over the long weekend. I know they will be adding more over time, which is cool, but at least I can also have them mail me the ones that I really want to see.

Anyway, it is time to go make some money, hope everyone has a good day!

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.

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…

I am really liking this new layout, it is much easier to navigate to do what you need, add new posts, pages, edit things, etc. Keep up the good work dev team!

My time with KNS is moving quickly, going well, and we still have a hell of a lot to do. We are trying to devise a marketing plan, which was never properly implement with DotResolve, and has not existed with KNS in any true form. Meaning, we are green with creating marketing plans, but we are working through it and should have a clearer path to follow sooner rather than later.

Life in general has been good, despite the global economical disaster, but there is not too much to complain about. Cindy and I started the process of searching for a home to call our own, and it is stressful and exciting all at the same time, something that can wear a man out, for sure. I will definitely post updates about this process as we move forward!

More soon!

Personally, owning my own business has not been the most lucrative thing I have done with myself, but I have learned so much more about how the world and the people living in it works. There have been many ups, and many more downs than I would like to remember. Selling my business to become partial owner of another, more successful, company came at the right time for me.

The next few weeks are going to be quite busy… We will be migrating and consolidating our email systems, websites, finances, etc. So much to do, and we still have to service clients! This experience has brought new life into me, and has motivated me to work harder than I did when I first went into business. I love it!

Anyway, it is time for bed because I am beat!

Anyway, it is fixed now. So if you sent me something and never got a response, resend please! Let all that “contact me” mail start flowing again!

Have a safe 4th of July for all you U.S. readers.