Hello, another rainy day day in paradise

yes it is thundering a bit but it is very hot with very high humidity. yesterday we had a nice wind that kept things cool a bit but not today.

Its Saturday Bluey is on her computer doing Uni work. I'm down loading new updates and talking to you.

Okay I just found out that my messing around adding the subscribe thingy to the foront of this blog caused my download to crash so its starting again...oh well.

Doc Shoozenboots called me today. he was due to talk to me last Friday (not yesterday) but when he didn't call I presumed that things were find with my interim blood test. But he called today to say my test was fine but that I was to drink more water. This was a scream as I was on my way in to Joyce's work to pick her up and GET A DRINK OF WATER!  Weird eh?

Anyway I seem to have settled a bit with the Prednisone and am still hyper but am trying real hard not to succumb to the irritability part. I even had a very streesful day on Thursday and kept it together very well.

I haave been organizing the school annual used computer sale and this time we had 8 laptops going out at 100.00 each, yes that is a good price and no you can't get one. I had heard from several people that they were going to line up earlier than the 8:oo amm start time so came and hour early only to find 20 people in line. Apparently the line started at 4:30 am!  I had prepared cards with numbers one to eight so that I could relieve people as to the outcome once the sale started. We all looked at each other and I thought it would be okay to start the sale since anyone coming later would not be getting a laptop any way. So in 40 minutes I had sold 8 laptops and 15 desktops! We had achieved our goal of unloading the old out of warranty units with a minimum of labour! Wildly successful. But..... its not just about being fair it about being seen to be fair! I copped a bit stick by starting early but when I got a chance to explain that the OUTCOME of the sale was determined by all those people lined up early and not any thing I did  everyone seemed cool.  In fact one mother of a disappointed daughter challenged us to work out a way to reduce the angst even more, meet our requirement of being easy, make it totally transparent, and even see if we could get some of the computers into the hands of parents and kids that may have trouble even getting the 50.00 or 100.00 we were charging.  She even offered to kick in for one next year. 

Watch this space for future developments on 'Comps for Kids' the foundation!!!!

I'm pretty pumped about this idea but that could just be the chemical talking ;-)

more later

Chris