The Cube Farm of where I work.

Here is a photo of where I work. A call center.

The desk I work at is right here.
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It's a true "Cube Farm." I have the green plant on the corner of my wall. That round thing hanging on my co-workers wall is a Dilbert Cubebell. When you push the button at the center is says, "Ding Dong", "Go away!" or "Leave me alone!" in a Dilbert voice .

Today I did some things to improve the functionality of this blog. I have added some links to other blogs and our websites. If you would wish to exchange links with our blogs please use the contact me link to the right that is marked: Contact Me!

Fly Fishing and other things...

This morning I went fly fishing at Crystal Lake in Burnsville MN. Only caught a few small bream.

Just before I went down to the fishing dock a client called me, and said that she would be presenting the quote for the 1000 custom printed pens to her boss on Monday. That's good. The potential for a sale with this college isn't dead yet.

The guys that were going to meet me at the lake didn't show up so after a half hour I moved down the shore toward the boat landing. I could see from where I was fishing that they hadn't shown up late.

Z called me from work. She told me that we sold 12 Lapel Pin Cases on eBay to someone on Jacksonville Beach FL. That is a $210 sale.

At about 11:30 am, it was getting HOT! 95 degrees hot. I left for home and the air conditioning.

By the time I got cooled off, I thought it would be good to see if the eBay Pin Case order had been paid for. Not yet, though looking at our sold items, I saw there was another eBay Lapel Pin Case that was sold to someone in Erie, PA. That's a $22 sale.

In case anyone is interested in these Lapel Pin Cases, our eBay store is at: http://stores.ebay.com/AdXPress-Mercantile?ref-store.

They say that sales is like fishing...

More success so far today away from the lake than on the lake.

Boyne River

I took this picture of the Boyne River. This is a location of behind the Bait and Party Store. I don't know why they call it a party store it was just a bait shop. This is on a island in the river. The guy told me to go across the foot bridge behind the bait shop and stay right along the path he cut. I ended up looking at this view. I took this photo with my iPaq.

Boyne Falls is a beautiful area.

Trout I caught in Michigan

This one I caught on the Boyne River.

This trout I caught on the Jordan River.

Yes, I'm talking to you!

I'm not sure of the blog thing. With so many blogs out there, I wonder how many people are going to read this! ;-)

I'm Zena's husband. I'm the other side of Zena's World.

I enjoy fly fishing (in the summer) and throwing darts (cricket) in the winter. I have been fly fishing for 3 years. I still need work on casting. I shoot an average of 2.00 marks per round. That puts me in the top third of our league. Our team took second place last spring.

I work in sales at a mail order company that sells tools and equipment. I've been really able to "Go For NO!". My co-workers are amazed when I show them an order that I had made for $200 and at the very end of the call I ask "Do you need a generator?" Then I ended up selling the guy a $2000 generator plus a couple of accessories for the generator as well. It took me over 6700 "No's" to get that one "YES!" After that, it only took me 170 "No's" to get a second generator added to an order.

We also have a part time promotional products business called AdXPress Imprints where we sell custom printed promotional items on eBay and to local clients. Our eBay store is at: http://stores.ebay.com/AdXPress-Mercantile?ref-store. and our website is: http://www.adxpressimprints.homestead.com.

Z and I also like to travel. This summer we traveled to Boyne Falls Michigan and Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. We enjoyed Lake Geneva better than Boyne Falls. There was more to do. This fall we planning on taking our niece on a cruise or to a Caribbean resort.

We volunteer in the local communities in our area. Z and I are alumni of the Burnsville Jaycees. We have also been very active with the Jaycees on the local and state levels. We have both received the Minnesota Jaycee Statesman award. This is the highest honor the Minnesota Jaycees can bestow on a member.

Z has asked me to volunteer teaching chess this past spring and this coming fall for kids during some evenings. This chess club called the "Chessperadoes" meets typically once a week at the local high school from fall through spring. The Hastings Community Education facilitates the location through a fee each student pays.

Last fall there was a few of the kids that were troublesome. I have been looking for ways to make the experience more enjoyable for the kids and easier on me. I have enlisted a couple of friends to assist me. Thirty kids can be a handful, especially for someone with no teaching experience. Fall is coming pretty quick and I have to start thinking of chess lesson plans.

Tomorrow, since I have the day off of work, I plan on going fishing with some work buddies.

Well I think I've said enough. I'll try to put some photos on this blog if anyone is interested.

I welcome any comments.

Good night all.