I guess it takes me getting sick to get me to post a new entry. (although I still doubt anyone is even reading this thing) Not a whole lot going on, business still sucks. Not sure what happened there. Things were going great up through August, and then came September and it all went to hell. Convention sales were down, net sales were down, everything was down. The weird thing is we are shipping just as many orders as ever on the web, but the customers are spending significantly less per order, hence the down swing in business. The number of orders encourages me and tells me there is still a lot of interest out there, but the lower amount spent per order tells me the economy finally caught up with me.

Then there is the Yen. Ow. The United States is artificially weakening the Dollar so that we can export more. This in turn is making the Yen artificially stronger, and in turn giving me many many headaches.

On the personal side of my life, well on the personal side absolutely nothing is happening. I work too many hours a day/week to have a personal life. Though in a town in the size of Kirksville, there really isn’t much of a social life to be had. Don’t get me wrong, I like living here. I like the idea I can accidentally forget to lock my car and when I come back it will still be there.

Otherwise not a whole lot to say. Hope you are all having a safe and happy holiday season!

Yeah yeah…I’m alive, been busy. Got an opinion on 500 different subjects,
but no time to express them all. In the
meantime check this out

I warned ya it would be awhile between updates. I have been the only one in the office for 3 weeks, so life has been a WEE bit hectic. ACK!

How can you really resist this?

One week since my last entry…now that’s more like it!

First Jesse Ventura became governor of Minnesota, now Arnold Schwarzenegger is running for California governor. My theory? The cast of the sci-fi movie “Predator” is slowly trying to take over the country.

Just giving it a test to see if it’s working. Knowing me, this will be the last update for awhile;)

Ok, well one post worked, so let’s give you some idea of what I plan on doing. A long time ago (around 1999) I got the idea for “Rural Ramblings”. It was going to be something like a blog, but I got tired real quick or creating a page for each entry. As my website lay dormant for several years, the idea died, until I finally came to the conclusion I *needed* to write.

So low and behold I decided to jump on the blogger bandwagon. It will never be earth shattering, 99% of the entries will probably never get read, but at least I gave it another try.

I will probably write lengthier essays once in a blue moon, but the main content of my site will be moved here. Enjoy or hate it….I’ll be blunt, it’s more for me than anyone.