First post... of the YEAR?!?
Wow... I know I that I tend to post somewhat (*cough*) sporadically, but I hadn't really consciously realized that I have not made a single post in 2008 thus far.
Well, um... Happy St. Patrick's Day, everyone. No, I'll not be celebrating in the amateur drinking day tradition. I would like to take the evening and perhaps go out and have a nice meal with devilcupid1979 in honor of the holiday. I was thinking about checking out the new Tigin Irish Pub downtown, but may wind up simply going to Helen Fitzgerald's which is near home. Those establishments will be bad enough, I'm just not in the mood to deal with the mass crowd that will be at McGurk's in Soulard.
Let's see, what else...
The store is doing well, certainly not going to make us rich, but it is at least stabilizing out to be breaking even and should eventually start showing a profit. At this point we are tracking sales increases of between 70%-80% higher per month than was seen by the previous ownership last year. At this point I'm not sure if that is more indication of what I am doing right vs illustration what the previous ownership did wrong.
The "day job" on the other hand has been very frustrating. I'm not sure how much is due to the level of frustration that I *so* enjoy the business side of running the store in contrast to this or how much the constant grind and stress of my role in the job is wearing me down. At the moment I am monitoring a 5GB file download in anticipation of kicking off a job to process the data. Once I start that job, I can finally get to bed and sleep.
All in all... Am still alive and around, I've been reading everyone else's posts but not been making my own. I suppose in some ways I feel that what is going on with me is so less interesting than with others.
There actually are some more interesting and happy news sort of things that I will try to post about in the days to follow, but for now I'm too tired to really write coherently.
Well, um... Happy St. Patrick's Day, everyone. No, I'll not be celebrating in the amateur drinking day tradition. I would like to take the evening and perhaps go out and have a nice meal with devilcupid1979 in honor of the holiday. I was thinking about checking out the new Tigin Irish Pub downtown, but may wind up simply going to Helen Fitzgerald's which is near home. Those establishments will be bad enough, I'm just not in the mood to deal with the mass crowd that will be at McGurk's in Soulard.
Let's see, what else...
The store is doing well, certainly not going to make us rich, but it is at least stabilizing out to be breaking even and should eventually start showing a profit. At this point we are tracking sales increases of between 70%-80% higher per month than was seen by the previous ownership last year. At this point I'm not sure if that is more indication of what I am doing right vs illustration what the previous ownership did wrong.
The "day job" on the other hand has been very frustrating. I'm not sure how much is due to the level of frustration that I *so* enjoy the business side of running the store in contrast to this or how much the constant grind and stress of my role in the job is wearing me down. At the moment I am monitoring a 5GB file download in anticipation of kicking off a job to process the data. Once I start that job, I can finally get to bed and sleep.
All in all... Am still alive and around, I've been reading everyone else's posts but not been making my own. I suppose in some ways I feel that what is going on with me is so less interesting than with others.
There actually are some more interesting and happy news sort of things that I will try to post about in the days to follow, but for now I'm too tired to really write coherently.