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Wednesday, April 25,
2007
Today was another beautiful
day here in Central Pennsylvania. It started out nice and sunny but that only
lasted until about 2 PM and then we had rain the rest of the day. It's also
supposed to rain tonight and tomorrow... But then what's that old adage? April
showers bring May flowers.... Well, at this rate, we should see a lot of
May flowers!
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I picked up our daily paper out side to bring in this morning and couldn't
help but see some of the front page headlines... I usually like to get
at least a half cup of coffee, (de-caffeinated) before I even glance at them
but couldn't help this morning.
To give you an example:
GUN BACKERS RALLY AT CAPITOL
INDIANA PRISON RIOT
POTENTIAL FOR $4 GAS FUELS IRE OF DRIVERS
BILL WOULD LET COLLEGES TELL PARENTS OF PROBLEMS .. (This one's a bit late,
but better late than never..
You know the more I read all this stuff in the newspapers and the WEB, I swear
that most of the world's and especially our countries problems could be solved
with good old common sense!
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If you get a few minutes check out Newsweek's magazine online edition as they
do have a lot of good stuff there.
They have a poll question there every week. Last week's was,
Do you believe NBC and CBS were right to have fired
radio personality Don Imus? The results were: YES - 23%, NO - 74% and
NOT SURE - 3%. That was the results of 59,281 people voting.
At least I know I'm not the only one who felt that Imus got a raw deal out of
his stupid remarks.. If we were all held, literally, to everything that we
said stupid, we be in a heck of a shape.... At least I know I would be... Yes,
as I said before, he should have been punished. But to lose his living, NO he
should NOT have.
This week's poll is, In the wake of the Virginia
attacks, does the United States need stricter gun-control laws? I say
NO, big brother has already taken enough of our personal rights! Also, If they
take our guns, or put more restrictions on them, I truly believe that the only
ones who will be bearing weapons are the criminals! And that's a fact, Jack!
There is no way, by taking guns from law, abiding citizens, that you are going
to stop one bad apple, once in awhile, from going "nut-so" and killing people.
Whether it be at a college campus, a school campus, or a McDonalds restaurant
a few years back. However, if you have some armed citizens around, people who
were not afraid to apply for gun permits and go to hand gun schools to learn
how to properly handle them, you just may have a chance of one of these
citizens stopping some pinhead, like at the McDonald's Restaurant from killing
almost 20 people before the police finally arrived to put him out of his
misery.
I really pity our children, grand children, and great grand children, from
knowing how it used to be when you could trust your fellow man. Like when I
was small, and when we went away, Mom would make sure there was always food in
the fridge, so if someone stopped and we weren't home, they could "help
themselves" and have something to eat while they waited for us to return. Or
always having a pencil and paper on the kitchen table so they could let a note
in case they had to leave before we got home..
You didn't have to worry about someone "breaking" into your home to rob you of
your personal stuff and furniture etc., as the neighbors would always keep an
eye on your place. If someone was there that shouldn't be they may find a
neighbor poking a shotgun at them wanting to know just what the heck they were
doing..
Strangers knew not to mess around someone's home when they weren't around or
they just may be picking buckshot from their butts for a week! Ah yes, "the
good ole days!"
At any rate, back to Newsweek online... Jump in, take the poll and look over
some very good articles... Just click here:
www.xtra.newsweek.com
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Did you take notice of the mention of gasoline going up to $4.00 a gallon this
summer! I can say one thing, if it does, Betty and I will be spending more
time at home than we usually do. We have already cut back on our travels and
if it goes that high, we will be cutting back even more.
I think the big oil companies just want to see how far they can push us..
I think Americans surprised them when it shot up and stayed near 3 bucks a
gallon that people just continued to pay the "toll," and keep running around
on their vacations etc...
If people don't STOP using up gasoline like there's no end, these people will
continue to overcharge us....
Don't forget it's not just the gasoline that's going up... Everything is going
up as everything is shipped to it's destination by trucks, and trucks use
fuel.. I was talking to a restaurant owner a couple of days ago and he was
telling me about the various foods and what they cost a year ago and what they
cost now, and most have increased 50% about what they were. If something was
$5.00 a pound, it's now $7.50 a pound! He claims that if he tries to
raise his eating prices that much to cover it, people would stop coming...
So, even though he did raise his prices a small amount, he's just plain,
making less money this year than he did last year!
Of course it's that way with all of our products, not just food... If it
doesn't stop, people will need large increases in their salaries just to be
able to buy what they did a year ago, and even if that would happen, (I doubt
it,) it would just inflate our money to much less that what it's worth to
start with... One big giant circle... It's just won't stop!
Two years ago, the horror of paying $2 for a gallon of
regular gasoline had some motorists curling up in the fetal position. Today,
mid-staters would relish filling up at that price! That's a quip from
The Patriot News, our daily paper out of Harrisburg, PA.... and it's the
truth... I remember when gas started to climb right after the big
hurricane and it started to get close to the $2 mark. I thought it will NEVER
go about that $2 mark.... Heck, it never stopped and it ended up going
to $3 and above! It has NEVER gone back down to about $1.28 where it was
before the hurricane... You can't tell me that everything in the world
has changed that much in just a two year period.. I'll tell you what has
changed.... The oil companies found out that us stupid Americans, even with
being faced with outrageous prices, will continue to drive our cars no matter
how much they price gouge us! That's what changed, and it will NEVER go back
to a fair price... Even the feds and the state's governments just can't
wait to jump in and tax the gasoline even more than they do now! Our
governor, Ed Rendall, wrote a letter to President Bush demanding to know why
the gasoline prices are continually rising even though the cost of crude oil
continues to go down... Today, he said he has yet to receive an answer to his
letter.. However, today he also said, that he is thinking of putting
more taxes on the big oil company profits.... (Making it sound like he's
going to punish them for overcharging us.) Geez..... what do you think
the oil companies will do about that.... You're right, they'll just charge us
even more for the cost of a gallon and blame it on the States!!!
Is your backside starting to hurt yet! It should be, as they are having
their weird fun with all of us and there is not a darn thing we can do about
it.
In the Harrisburg area the average per gallon of gasoline stayed under $2
until March 15, 2005, almost exactly 2 years ago. It hasn't went under $2 a
gallon since then, a period of 109 weeks!
The only way for Americans to fight back is to travel less and buy less
gasoline.. Easier said than done, especially for those who must use their
automobiles to get to work. But there are plenty of other trips that we can
cut back on... You know it and I know it... Let's do it, before it's too late!
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It's seems like no matter how you try to please all of your customer's there
is no way that you will be able to. This old saying is true and always will
be:
You can please some of the people some of the time, and some of the people all
of the time, but you cannot please all of the people all of the time.
Example:
I received this letter from a man that joined a small $5 Pre-Launch
downline building program that I did back in early 2005. As a matter of fact,
on the copy of his custom circular that promoted it, with his name on, that he
sent along back to me today, it clearly states: The pre-launch will end on
July 31, 2005 so hurry!!!
Here's a copy of the note that he sent along with it to me. Of course I'm not
going to say his name:
Dear Chuck,
Enclosed is a copy of the Pre-Launch Flyer. I have sent over 1,000 flyers to
prospective customers. Please let me know how I stand in this program.
I am also waiting for the downline, newsletter, application and other
information that will be mailed to me.
Please reply,
xxxxxxxxxx
Well, first of all I did send him the things that he listed back in August of
2005! It's no wonder that he doesn't recall getting them! Also, I hope he
didn't mail out the "!,000" flyers that he claimed he mailed lately as it sure
would be a waste of money, especially when the flyer clearly states that the
program ends on July 31, 2005!
Now, I'll have to take at least a half hour to write him a letter, get an
envelope typed and another 39¢ stamp to tell him that he has been apparently
"sleeping" for 2 years!
What a waste of his time, my time, and two good stamps. One for him to send me
that garbage, and one for me to answer it!
Now, you can see why that you will never please all of them, all of the time!
(Ha!)
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It's starting to get a bit late here in my home office so I'll wrap up this
post for today, and YOU, YOU have a GREAT day!
(I'll see you right back here just as soon as I can!
Okay?)
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Here's The Cool, Unusual Fact For Today..
Count Rumford (1753-1814), who was the first to develop the modern theory of
heat, was born in the American colonies (Wolburn, Massachusetts) but was a
Tory during the Revolutionary War and spied for the British, reaching the rank
of lieutenant colonel in the British army. He left with the British forces and
spent the rest of his life in Europe. In 1791, he was made a count of the Holy
Roman Empire. He chose his title from the name of the town, Rumford (later
Concord), New Hampshire, where his wife was born. He did not entirely forget
his native land. When he died in 1814 (while Great Britain was fighting a
second war with the now-independent United States), he left most of his estate
to the U.S. and endowed a professorship in applied science at Harvard!
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Posted by Chuck Rollason at, Wednesday April 25, 2007
Friday, April 20,
2007
T.G.I.F.
We had a beautiful day here in Central Pennsylvania. The sun was out and it
went up to about 70 degrees. Just a beautiful Spring day. It's about time and
it has been cold all month and the television weathercasters were just about
ready to name it the coldest April ever... Yes, thank goodness that we
finally hit a warm spell.. It's also been raining so much around here
that the river that runs through our back yard has been up and down like a
"yo-yo!" It came up pretty high there a couple of times and got a bit "hairy."
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A lot of things happened this week and I missed out on a lot of them. Monday
was ok and I got a good bit done, mostly stuff around the house as I thought,
then I could take the next few days and get caught up with stuff here in the
office... Well, by Monday evening I started to feel pretty darn bad...
Hmmm.. I thought, maybe I was just extra tired as I did get a lot of stuff
done... But when I went to sleep and woke up a few times to hit the
"head" but didn't wake up there after until after 11 in the morning I kind of
figured something was wrong as when I did wake up I had the "shivers" and when
Betty took my temperature it confirmed that I had a fever... I had no appetite
at all and later I started with diarrhea. I was so weak the furthest I
got from the bed was to my recliner in the living room... Didn't matter
as Betty gave me some pills for the flu and to bring down my fever. All I
could do was sleep and go to the "head"..... a real busy day. After the first
day the diarrhea went away, but I just couldn't stay awake more than a short
time and then it was to either shed covers, or beg Betty for more as I was
"freezing." This crap went on until yesterday morning when I finally started
to feel a bit better and got better as the day progressed. I soaked in the tub
for about 2 hours and got dressed and really started to feel much better but I
just couldn't get my head in gear to get anything done here in the office
until today. So, I guess, you could say that I lost the entire week and I'm
still not sure why. I had no cough, and no stuffiness, just a lot of fever and
chills and sleepy all the time... What ever it was is finally going away
and I'm feeling much better...
As I wasn't eating practically anything, Betty didn't eat much either so I
guess tomorrow, I'll take her out and feed her at her favorite restaurant.
It's the least I can do after her playing nurse to me all of the week and
taking care of me...
I didn't get anything done, but I'm glad that week is finally over...
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As I said, I didn't get that much done around here, but that didn't stop the
world... I just couldn't believe it when that dude went nuts down at
Virginia Tech and killed 32 mostly young folks and injured another 24! My god,
what a terrible, terrible thing... I feel so sorry for the young folks
hurt and killed, and especially their families...
I even felt worse when I found out that the authorities even knew this kid
wasn't "wrapped" too tight and left him run around the campus anyway! What a
waste and what a stupid thing to happen when they had even shipped this guy to
a mental hospital for evaluation and they even said that he needed help...
They claim that the law stopped them from even notifying his parents as they
would be invading his personal rights.. What a crock of crap...
This is another case of too damn many silly laws. Too many lawyers,
legislators, and law makers trying to justify their existence by enacting
stupid laws that only they have any inking of why there must be a law for what
ever...
When did common sense completely get tossed out of the window? Other
female students even reported him for stalking them and harassing them with
emails and phone calls. When does someone in the police business, say, hey,
this guy is just too much trouble and needs to be kicked out of school and
sent home or put into some kind of place that he can get help for himself and
protect society from him?
All this misery he caused, and all they can say is, that we couldn't say
anything or we would have been violating his rights... Well, there should have
been an exception... To heck with his rights.... What about the rights of all
the people that he hurt and killed.... Didn't they need their rights protected
just as much as this dude?
Well, let see....... Now I'll give some of the do gooders about another ten
minutes to start blaming it on guns. Yep it's the guns fault... Better
take the right of everyone to bear a weapon except idiots like this... That
will solve everything.... Yeah, sure it will... In a pigs eye it will...
My sincere heartfelt sympathy to all the young folks that were hurt and all of
the families involved in this massacre.
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Well, gasoline prices are still climbing around here where I live and I
imagine all over America. The cost of crude oil continues to drop and the cost
of fuel continues to increase...
It's finally reached the point that today, our governor of Pennsylvania, Edward
Rendell, has written a letter to President Bush demanding for someone to
investigate why the price of crude oil is going down and the cost of gasoline
is going up...
It's probably just a political move, but I am very interested to see if he
even gets an answer to his letter and even more interested in what it will
say!
Geez.... I hope it soon slacks off as it's getting close the 3 bucks a gallon
again.. It's just plain nuts... Crazy.....
We'd better start doing a lot of importing of the little "skate boards" with
wheels that the British call cars over here, because pretty soon, we'll be
lucky if we can buy enough gas for even them to run...
You know, I'm surprised that some young business entrepreneur hasn't come up
with that idea... I bet they'd sell pretty darn good. Especially to Mr. and
Mrs. Average. I know darn well that I'd be interested in one of them... As
long as they could keep up with the traffic so folks wouldn't run over you,
they should be okay... Heck when I see foreign movies and car chases
over there they seem to get around pretty darn good....
I know if I was younger I'd sure check into it and see if it was feasible to
import them and still make a fair profit with them...
The closest we have to them is the small mini-car, and the V W Beetle. There
used to be one many years ago, called the Renault Dauphine. It was a
cute little car and we used to have one on our car lot.. I started to drive it
home as I lived about 30 miles from work. Believe it or not, I used to get
over 40 miles to the gallon with that thing and it wasn't a bad ride.. It was
actually fun to drive and would hold 4 adults very comfortably with plenty of
leg and head room... Of course it wasn't a speed demon, but it held it's
own in "drive time" traffic..... Yes, I wish I had that little devil
now...
I think we sold it off the lot for $600 bucks... but you must remember this
was back in the late 60's and it was a one owner used car...
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Just in this past week, two more young soldiers died that lived here in
Central Pennsylvania.... It's enough to make you cry... What a
heck of a mess that we've gotten into.... and really..... for absolutely
nothing....
No weapons of mass destruction, and not one of the terrorists that destroyed
the World Trade Center and many, many families, even came from Iraq..... All
for nothing... What a shame.... Not only a shame for all the young
people we lost in the war so far, and the tons of money, but also now, we're
known as the aggressors and not the protectors of freedom.... When will
the politicians learn that they will never get all Americans support a war
unless we are attacked first..... Then everyone in America will be up and
ready to protect their country..... They will never have full support of the
people for their, politicians, own agendas... It just will never happen
that way...
Personally, I'm still trying to figure out why Bush wanted to attack Iraq....
Anyone out there that can set me straight.. My emails at the end of this
post....
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Well, my friend, it's almost time to start the weekend, and I have some stuff
to get done first.. I'm sure you do as well, as for YOU, YOU
have a GREAT weekend!
(I'll see you right back here just as soon as I can!
Okay?)
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Here's The Cool, Unusual Fact For Today..
Stephen Decatur, U.S. naval hero of the Tripoli campaign and of the War of
1812, was challenged in 1820 to a duel by a fellow officer, Commodore James
Barron, who was nearsighted. To accommodate his opponent, Decatur agreed to
exchange shots at only eight paces. Barron killed him!
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Posted by Chuck Rollason at, Friday April 20, 2007
Saturday, April 14,
2007
It's not a bad day here in
Central Pennsylvania with the sun shinning, at least until tonight. Then it's
supposed to cloud up and we're supposed to get at least a half inch of rain
over night. Actually tomorrow night they are calling for a "snow" event. I
guess that means that we're supposed to get snow.. Some are calling for
up to 5 and a half inches of the white stuff, it all depends which newscaster
you listen to on our 3 local stations. It's almost unbelievable for this time
of the year around these parts.
After losing my entire tomato patch last year, because the river came up and
washed it away, this year, I'm only going to put out 3 plants.. If they produce
pretty good, it should keep Betty and I in fresh tomatoes for a few months..
I've got my fingers crossed anyway on that one.
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In the last post I had mentioned about the Don Imus affair and in my
estimation, he did screw up and should never have said what he did. This was
before he lost his job over it. Well, now, he's out of work.... I hope
"they" are all feeling better now. By "they" I mean the so called "preachers",
Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson demanding that he not only apologize for his
statements, and get a 3 week suspension from his job, but they insisted that
he lose his livelihood because of it.
Well since my last post, Imus has been fired from his job. He was in the
second day of his fundraising radio campaign for 3 charities; over the last 18
years, the Imus-hosted Radiothon raised more than $40 million dollars.
Because Imus was fired, his wife sat in at the fundraiser to they could finish
the event.
Also, because of his firing from the public airwaves it also deprives him of a
platform to raise money for the sprawling Imus Ranch, where children with
cancer and other illnesses get a taste of cowboy life. With Imus out of a job,
some wonder whether the pipeline to charity money will eventually dry up.
Yes, it's all his fault with a stupid statement that he should know better
than to say.. He met with the Rugers University women's basketball team and
they have accepted his apology.
Imus also commented that "There's not an African-American parent on the planet
who has sent their child to the Imus Ranch who didn't trust me and trust my
wife," he said on his show. "And when these kids die, we don't just go to the
white kid's funeral."
You know it wouldn't set with me so bad if the "hip hop" "singers" didn't say
a heck of a lot more bad things in their songs about their women and each
other calling them much more than the comment that Imus made.. I guess
that's okay with everyone though...
Well, that's the last I'll say about it, except that it's a done gone shame
for all the children to be punished for one stupid sentence... Nuff....
said.....
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Warm weather is on the way.... Just as sure as the sun comes up each
morning....
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will pay for itself and develop you a profit over and over...
Take the time to write a good one, and then place it in a lot of economical
papers to "try it out", before going to the higher publications..
This past week, I received 5 inquiries from just one such classified ad to
only 5,000 circulation and so far, one of those has developed into a
downline colleague in one of my Multi-Level Companies! Not bad for an ad that
only cost a few bucks each time I run it! Not bad at all..
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Well, it's time for me to get back to work, even though it's Saturday, I do
have a lot of work backed up and I do want to get some yard work done today
before the rains show up, and YOU, YOU have a GREAT
day!!!
(I'll see you right back here just as soon as I can!
Okay?)
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Here's The Cool, Unusual Fact For Today..
Alfred Lunt, a famous theater actor, became very nervous if he played to a
theater with any empty seats. He was really only happy with an audience that
included standees. One night, during the run of Idiot's Delight, there
were a few empty seats. So the playwright Russell Crouse got out a dummy that
had been a prop in another play, dressed him, stood him up in the back of the
house, and told Lunt there were standees. Lunt was delighted, and told Crouse
after the performance that "one standee was so interested in the play that he
hardly moved at all!"
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Posted by Chuck Rollason at, Saturday April 14, 2007
Wednesday, April 11,
2007
Sorry, I'm late posting as
usual. Don't wait another week to check on another post as I will be posting
more often from now on...
I was under the weather there for a few days and as usual got behind.. This is
a bad time of the year for sinus problems and also for colds... Just about
every other person I know it seems is suffering from a cold..
Like my mom used to say, "This is definitely cold-catching weather." One day
it's nice and warm and the next day is cold as heck.
Today it was cold and windy with a bit of rain mixed in. Over night we're
supposed to get at least an inch of rain, so sure enough by tomorrow they will
have out the "small stream" flood warnings.
I don't think that it will affect the mighty Susquehanna River that runs
through our back yard, but it will definitely raise the smaller streams..
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About 4 years ago, when we had a bit of a flooding problem from the river, a
large tree was deposited right off our back yard about 250 feet out into the
water..
It just looked like the devil and a lot of birds would use it to rest on. The
fishermen loved it as they would be there off and on almost each day fishing
under it and around it for fish hiding in it's roots and limbs under water...
It was nothing more for us than a big "eye sore."
After high water situations over the last 4 years, sure enough, it was till
there. HOWEVER, after the ice break last month, it looks like the ice
took our tree with it! It wouldn't move before as the roots were pointed up
stream and the limbs were all pointed down steam and were holding it fast from
floating away. But when the ice broke this year, by golly the broken ice can
get pretty powerful and it must have broken up the huge tree and carried it
off... Good riddance... That's all I have to say about it, nothing good and
that's for sure...
I remember one time, Betty's son, John called me and asked when I was going to
go out and hack it up with a chain saw so it would float down the river.. I
just told him to hold on til he came up to our place again.. Then when he came
up, I pointed out that the darn thing was in, what they call a river channel,
that even when the river is low, down to a couple of feet, the channel is
still about 8 feet deep! Too darn deep to stand there and cut it up with a
chain saw... Of course, I told him, if you'd like to try, I'll go get my chain
saw to which he immediately said that he didn't think so!
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I don't know about where you live, but gas is still climbing around these
parts... It's just plain sickening... I filled up the Jeep this morning.
I checked my odometer, and there was only 117 miles on if from the last fill
up.. It cost exactly $21.00 to fill the tank so in essence, it cost
$21.00 to go a lousy 117 miles! Isn't that ridiculous?
Yeah, that's what I figure too... It's just plain nuts, and according to the
local papers, it's going to go up even more before it levels off and then it
will probably stay there the rest of the Summer! Nuts!!!
Around here here's how gas prices have fluctuated:
Yesterday $2.762 on April 11,
2006 $2.681
On March 27 $2.612 on April 12, 2005 $2.184
On Feb. 27 $2.392 on April 13, 2004
$1.697
On Jan. 30 $2.141 on April 9,
2002 $1.337
Now, if that isn't enough to tic you off.... I don't know what it will take!
In only 5 years, the price of gasoline went from $1.337 to $2.762 more than
double and it's still going up each and every day... Where will it stop? --
When will our troops come home?..... Your guess on either question is as good
as mine for both questions....
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What do you think about the Imus upset? I know he shouldn't have said what he
did, and he SHOULD be punished for it, however, do you really think that the
man should lose his job for the piss poor judgment that he made? I don't think
it should be a firing offense..
Even if he called me a worthless piece of crap personally, I don't think he
should be fired for it...
At any rate, time will only tell, they're after his butt on this one that's
for sure... I hope everyone forgives each other and they all get along
with their lives...
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SOME STUFF FOR MY MAIL ORDER/MLM/HOMEBUSINESS FRIENDS
When you are sending to another dealer for an order, or for more information,
please cut out their ad if possible and send it along so they know exactly
just what you are inquiring about or exactly what you want to purchase..
I have this happen to me at least 2 times each week. Yesterday I received an
envelope with 3 - $1.00 dollar bills in it requesting that I send the item
that I had advertised..
First of all, I have out at least 30 different ads in various different places
several of them are asking $3.00 for something, usually some kind of report.
So I have no idea just what this person is sending me 3 bucks for.. Had
they taken the time to clip out the ad and send it along it sure would save a
lot of time, and there order probably would have went out today. If they
couldn't clip the ad, they could have spent another 20 to 30 seconds in their
note explaining just what they were ordering...
Now, I must take the time, to put their name and address in my database and
type a note of all the pertinent information concerning the order, then take
another 10 minutes writing them a note asking just what they had ordered and
address an envelope, and enclose a self addressed stamped envelope for them to
mail me back their answer, and they must pop 39¢ for another stamp to send
that back then we must wait for my inquiry to get to them and their answer to
get back to me to fulfill their order that should have been done the first
time and over and done with.. All this for about 20 seconds of time spent
describing just what they were sending for.. It's a darn shame.. Now, I'm half
angry that it's taking all this extra time and expense to get their order
squared away, and they're probably going to be half ticked up that they must
follow up to get what they had already ordered and then wait again for it to
be delivered.. all for about 20 seconds..
So next time, you order, take an extra minute if necessary and get all of your
instructions down before dropping your order or inquiry in the mail... also,
if the dealer had used a department number or letter, like Dept. A, PO Box
100, Anywhere, USA, make sure you use that department number or letter as that
is usually a code to tell the dealer just what you are ordering and that can
be quite a time saver as well...
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Well, it's getting into a very late evening here, so I'm going to wrap it up
for the day, and YOU, YOU have a GREAT day!
(I'll see you right back here just as soon as I can!
Okay?) ( Probably a couple or 3 days.)
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Here's The Cool, Unusual Fact For Today..
As late as 1820, the universe was thought by European scientists to be
6,000 years old. It is now thought to be between 15 billion and 20 billion
years old!
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Posted by Chuck Rollason at, Wednesday April 11, 2007
Tuesday, April 4,
2007
It's a beautiful day today
here in Central Pennsylvania, if you're a duck, of course as it's been raining
all day. Actually now we are having temps well below average as tomorrow we're
on supposed to get to temps in the 40s. Oh well, it's a heck of a lot
better than snow storms.
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Things have been going pretty good here at our cottage as Betty got a very
good report for her colonoscopy at the beginning of this week. She's in
good shape for at least another 3 years... She gets checked often as her
oldest daughter passed away from colon cancer. I even had one a couple of
years ago. It's better to be safe than sorry.. The procedure is actually
a snap as they put you to sleep to do it, but the preparation for the test, is
really a "pain in the butt!) (Literally!)
Man, if you have your health, take care of it..... Take it from me, it's
fun to have life and get up everyday, but it's a heck of a lot more fun to get
up each day and feel that burst of energy from a nice healthy body!
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I want to talk some about the gasoline prices growing and just getting
plain, ridiculous again. I was talking to a friend today, in the state of
Washington, that mentioned to me her husband must go 138 miles round trip to where he
works each day. Wow! That's quite a trip and I mentioned to her that I bet
that he's not happy and jokingly I said that maybe he should buy a motorcycle.
She said that her husband IS seriously thinking of buying a motor cycle! I
mentioned that it may be uncomfortable to run a bike that far each day to work
and she said that he's a motorcycle buff anyway and wouldn't mind it...
I mentioned about getting caught in a rain storm and she said, "Hey, it's
Washington, if it rains it's no big deal to us!"
I just wish more people in the United States would take that idea as that
would really put a dent into the use of gasoline each day.. I feel that
if more folks did something like that it would actually DRIVE down the prices.
Gas prices have actually risen 9 cents more over the last week around here.
When it came down a little, a few months ago, it came down a cent or two over a
period of a couple of weeks but when it goes up, they sure don't fool around..
It's going up again now, with not much of any kind of excuses from the Big oil
companies...
Here's a short quip from one of our local newspapers.
With Easter travel just days away, prices at midstate
gasoline pumps continue to rise. The paper surveyed 10 gas stations in the
region put the average for a gallon of regular unleaded at $2.703, up 9.1
cents from just last week and 12.6 cents over last year!
Prices have risen for nine straight weeks. Since Jan. 30, the average has
increased by 56.2 cents, adding $11.24 to the cost of a 20-gallon fill-up!
Yesterday, prices rose at all 10 outlets and ranged from $2.679 to $2.749.
Yesterday's AAA Daily Fuel Gauge Report was at $2.696, up 10.5 cents from last
week. On Monday, the U.S. Energy Information Administration posted an
average of $2.707, up 9.7 cents from March 26 and up 11.9 cents over last year.
Yep, as far as I'm concerned, it's just another rip off of the American
people. So, what else is new...
I guess we've just got to get the right people bitching....
Heck, why would our Senators and Representatives bother with it when we not
only supply their transportation, but also their fuel to go to work and home
and back to Washington, etc.? Why should they care what the cost of fuel
is?
At any rate, keep your chin up and keep on motoring..... Just try to do a bit
less of it! Take one, you know, for the cause, and sit at home once in awhile,
!
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SOME STUFF FOR MY MAIL ORDER/MLM/HOMEBUSINESS FRIENDS
When you send out your promotional mailings, just make sure that you have
enough postage on them... There are several ways to make sure... The best one
of course being that you should really have your own digital postage scale.
Actually, now days, you can get a pretty good one for less that 30 bucks!
The one I have is about 5 years old and cost me almost $200 with tax. So
they, like all of our electronic stuff, have really come down in cost over the
last several years. Now's the time to take advantage of it..
Put yourself in place of your potential customer.... You get a note from
the post office that you have mail to pick up but it's short on postage and
it's going to cost you 23 cents of postage to get it.. So, you
pop for the postage to get the envelope that just may contain an order for
you, or something else of importance, only to find out that the darn thing is
just offers from another dealer who didn't bother to check his mailing for
weight and just assumed that it would "ride" for the one ounce of postage
stamp..
Would you buy anything from him/her? Would you join any of their business
opportunities? I know for sure that I wouldn't!
So don't be thought of as a cheap so and so, and make sure you have enough
postage on your promotional mailings... If you are in doubt, take an one
of the envelopes that you use the most, and fill it with 4 pieces of the kind
of paper that you use for your circulars, take another one with 4 and a half
pieces and then one with 5 pieces of paper in it. You will not get more than
that sent for a 1 ounce mailing... Take these to the post office and have THEM
weigh them for you. See which one and how much you should be mailing without
going over the rate.... That's part of your job, and a very important one...
make sure that you do it, post haste!
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That's the post for today.... I want to close up, get my bath, and get to
bed.... YOU, YOU have a GREAT day!!!
(I'll see you right back here just as soon as I can!
Okay?)
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Here's The Cool, Unusual Fact For Today..
The Incas, experts at organization and engineering, did not have wheels,
arches, or writing. At the height of their power, before the Spanish conquest
in 1532, the Incas ruled the entire area in South America from Quito, Ecuador,
to the Rio Maule, Chile. Their empire was centered at Cuzco, Peru!
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Posted by Chuck Rollason at, Tuesday April 4, 2007
Wednesday, March 28,
2007
We had another beautiful,
sunny day here at the Blue Bird Cottage in Central Pennsylvania... Even
the temps, at this moment, are above normal. Today we saw about 64 degrees.
Not bad, not bad at all!
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 We went grocery shopping today
at the Weis store near our favorite Chinese Restaurant near Harrisburg today
and they had a beautiful old truck there on display that was the first truck
for a local business that originally started in 1921 as a "mom and pop"
business. Talk about a small home business. Well, as you can see by the sign,
this is one home business that grew into a very large business that's still
 around today. How far do they
deliver now? I'm not sure but it would be interesting to know.. I know a lot
of businesses here in central Pennsylvania that we're started years ago, even
though they now seem huge, still are not in many other states. Such as
Lebanon Baloney. I thought once that they delivered Lebanon Baloney everywhere
but that sure isn't true as we have a friend who lives in the State of
Washington, and every year she used to have Betty and I pick up a large
Lebanon Baloney and send her and lots of Tasty Cake, cup cakes. We used to
send her a very large box of this stuff to her and she in turn would give them
out to her family as Christmas gifts. All of here Children were born in this
area and now live out that way and one even lives in Florida. At any rate when
they get a taste of things from home, I'll bet it sure brings back childhood
memories for them.
I just love hearing about home business success stories. There used to be
many, many more before all of the large shopping Malls cropped up...
When I was a kid, we had a "corner store" that carried just about anything you
needed around the house, to get by. Yep, they still had the big Weis stores
back then, but in-between trips to the Weis market for food, mom would send my
brother and I up to the corner store..
If my dad needed some 8 penny nails right away to use on a project he was
working on, my brother and I would be on our way to the "corner store" for a
pound of nails for him. I'm sure you get the idea..... It was not only a
grocery store that carried food, but a general store that carried just about
anything you could imagine.. Heck, I remember that my brother and I used to
buy packs of "B-Bs" there for our B B guns... Yep, they came in a small
isinglass packet. The packets were connected together and were a penny each..
They were on a very large wheel. When you bought 10¢ worth, Mr. Mickey would
count out 10 packs of the off the wheel and cut it off. I remember that 10
packs of B Bs were pretty heavy and they all wouldn't fit in just one of my
pockets but I'd have to tear them up and put them in several of my pockets...
Front and rear.....
Yes, the "corner store" was run by Mr. & Mrs. Mickey.. That was really a fun
place, and yes, just like in the old pictures of general stores, there seemed
to always be a couple or 3 oldsters playing checkers near the old wood/coal
stove... Even in the Summer it seems they would hang out there and that was
long before air conditioning... If you took away the sign, and the
gas pumps out side, the place would just look like another big house... Matter
of fact, before Mr. and Mrs. Mickey turned it into a store, that's just what
it was..
That was back when my brother, George and I, would roam the neighborhood
looking for empty soda bottles as they were each worth 2¢ at the time... This
was long before soda cans or even toss away bottles... If you would start to
drink a 5¢ coke there, at the store, and decided you couldn't finish it and
wanted to take it home with you, you had to give Mr. Mickey a 2¢ deposit fee
on the bottle. Then when you took the bottle back, he would return your 2¢.
George and I didn't really buy that many sodas though as they, at 5 cents
each, were pretty salty back then, when you figure you could buy a pretty good
size candy bar for 3¢! That was called a lunch bar. If you wanted a Hershey
bar, it cost you 5¢, but that was long before they cut down the size of them
and for 5¢ you got a pretty good sized bar of candy. Plain chocolate, or
chocolate and peanuts in the "Mr. Goodbar", or you could also get a "Mounds
Bar" or a Mounds with Almonds Bar, that was made from Chocolate and Coconut
and Almonds.... Boy where they ever good back then! That's usually what
George and I would get with our bottle deposit money... Either a 3¢
"Lunch Bar" each or a couple of packs of B Bs for our B B guns... and if we
were really lucky in finding empty bottles, both!
Back then, you rarely saw any bottles along the road that someone tossed out
of their cars because they were worth money and if someone did toss out one or
two, there was always someone like my brother and me to gather them up and
turn 'em in for the money.. Heck, it was like finding treasure....
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A few notes for the home business folks...
Don't forget that postage is going up on May 14th! Now is a great time
to do as many mailings as you can for prospects and customers... Click
here for the whole story on the
Postal Rate Increase on May 14th.
It sounds pretty simple when you first hear about it. Postage is going from
39¢ to 41¢. Well, believe me, that's just the beginning. And if it weren't for
Email, the postage rates per letter would increase much more than that!!!
The only thing that's holding them that low, and yes, I realize that it's not
that low, is the fact that more and more people are using Email...
Take flat rate priority mail that is now an already whopping $4.05, and that
just went up to that a short time ago. Well on the 14th of May that cost alone
is rising to $4.60!!!
Yep, no puny 5% increase for the good ole' post office but a whopping
13%+!!!!!
I've said it for years, and I still say the the government is THE biggest
inflator of money in the entire U. S. of A.!!!
It's very, very complicated this time and the article that I have posted just
gives you some various ideas of some of the changes, but doesn't get down to
the nitty-gritty like all of the various bulk mail costs that's going up...
It's a multitude of sins this time for sure...
So, you home business owners that depend on the mail to get out your
promotions are really going to be scraping and costs on a lot of things are
going to go up... They have to..
It's like for the last 4 postage increases of the last few years, I've eaten
the costs of not only the postage increases, but the cost of paper, envelopes,
etc. for my bulk mail Print and Mail Services, but this one is the "straw that
broke the camel's back" as I cannot eat them again... The cost of a case of
regular white, 8½" X 11" printing paper has risen from my cost of !6.99 to
$24.95, and this I feel sure is due to the cost of shipping because of the
increased fuel prices... That' just over the last year... I think
since the "dreaded" hurricane down south that the oil companies originally
blamed the jack up in gasoline and diesel prices shipping costs has hit the
ceiling...
I think for awhile the shipping companies were "eating" the high fuel costs
themselves waiting for the fuel to go back to where it belonged but after the
first year and they realized that it was NEVER coming back down they had to
adjust their shipping prices to compensate for it. That shoved the cost of
everything, and I mean everything, that is shipped by truck, including food
prices to shoot up... and you can't blame them as they can't "eat" their
rising costs either...
At any rate, I'm going to hold out until May when the postage goes up once
again, but then my Print & Mail rates will be rising to help compensate for
the cost of just about everything... Heck I'm making much, much less now then
when I started the Print & Mail service about 10 years ago!
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Talk about the cost of gasoline.... It's still going up around our area here,
with not even the peep of an excuse from the oil companies as to why...|
Most places that I passed when I was out today were up 3¢ a gallon than they
were Monday when I was out last! That's ridiculous, but what are we
going to do about it? Just what we did when it went up to 3 bucks a gallon...
Keep buying it... No one wants to cut back... They just let other bills go so
they can buy gasoline... We, Betty and I, have cut back just about as
much as we can without staying home completely, but I think there are very few
people who have followed suit...
Well, It's time to knock off and close up here in the office.... Betty was
just out here asking me if I was going to work all night! (Ha!) Not tonight,
my dear... I'm headed for the hot tub..... So.... I'm outta here, and YOU,
YOU have a GREAT day!!!
(I'll see you right back here just as soon as I can!
Okay?)
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Here's The Cool, Unusual Fact For Today..
Anyone who thinks that theater tickets are expensive today might consider what
happened in 1854. That was the year the famous Academy of Music opened on New
York's 14th Street. The prices ranged from $3 to $40 per seat!!!
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