Gift Certificates .. YAY!

So today was just one of those days, never could seem to get going, but a cruise out to the new gym for my first “offical” workout at the new facility, was just what I needed to wakeup - but top it off with my monitor showing up 3 days early, and just a mellow day in general, it was a good one.

I called the gym from the office to ask about Gift Certificates, and they were busy so I told em to take care of the front desk, I’d just stop in after work, well Brenda (the owner, well her and her husband own it, but well.. okay im rambling) called me about a music issue, which was just a tiny fact the music wasn’t playing, apparently it got unplugged, so I had her reboot the PC, tada - worked great.

So I talked with her about the gift certificates, basically she and I agreed to my usual with them it seems, trade - got Rosie a month of membership (probably still cover her afterwards if she wants it) and got my mom the mondo membership, 5mnths, 2 training sessions - all for setting up a media rig with music to play in the gym. Good times.

So it’s going well, got my new monitor now setup, swapped out my old 17 for my mom and dad’s 15inch, and the 15inch goes to Rosie for use with her computer I built her out of spare parts - so life is good - got my 2 LCD’s a running, a LOT more desk space vs. having my old clunky CRT.

And for the last of this post goes back to Brenda, I went in to discuss the joys of gift certificates and get the ball rolling - and she yet again mentioned the people wanting computer training, and that they were not afraid to pay for it. So that leaves me in a interesting place - in technicality my job for the last 5 years has been webhosting, web devlopment, and most things that go in that category, but now since I have done a lot of computer work there is a option to do computer training of sorts with older/younger folks to teach basics of PC’s, heck I could do Mac too - but just a gambit of training, which could glean anywhere from $25-$45 an hour to teach people in a class-like setting how to use their computers.

So now it leaves me with a “what-if” in my head, what to do, I priced out 15 PC’s … kinda pricy, even bargin basement of Dell, the reason it’s still expensive is Dell’s $299 pc’s are rebated, and in the order the rebate only applys to 1 customer, 1 computer, 1 address - so the real price is $400ish after tax and such, so it add’s up quickly. So I am lookin again at places to see if anyone has any decent deals on P4/AMD XP prefab systems, and maybe a decent deal on some 15inch LCD’s - but it could definately give me a boost to my income, and give me a higher/steadier income long term - you know the kind that supports a family, house, yada yada.

Anywhoo that’s it - prayers are definately appriciated, but this week is a meeting fest galore, and some ocasional fun here and there but things are going well, and getting back on track after last weeks customer server… fart.. yeah that’s what im gonna call it! Night.