12/23/2009
I guess that maybe Danny DeMichele understand that even the little guys running the smallest of websites needs help too. I have looked into many different companies that promise to help you with your site, only to find out that their fees are so high, that there is no way the average Joe could afford to hire them.
I did not want to believe that there were no good companies out there willing to help out the little guy for a reasonable amount so I kept on searching. I found Danny DeMichele by chance when I was just messing around with different terms in the search engines.
The ad that came up for Danny DeMichele, that I saw had some sort of wording that said something about how they have helped out big corporations and also mom and pop sites. That was the thing that caught my eye. Finally, a company that also helped out the people with smaller sites, as well as the big fortune 500 companies that can just throw around hundreds of thousands of dollars to make their sites work.
I called and asked for the complimentary plan first and then after receiving it and looking it over, I was able to choose a plan big enough to be effective, but small enough for me to be able to afford.
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12/21/2009
The only way that the dell repair man would come and fix the poweredge servers last night, was if I agreed to pay the extra fifty dollar trip charge because it was after hours. I had to have the servers up and running before everyone came in to start work again, since we lost about three hours yesterday when they went down.
I agreed to the trip charge amount, because I really had no other choice and the dell repair company knew that. I had tried to find a different repair company to come out and it seemed that no one else knew how to fix poweredge servers. I did not think that they were rare or anything, so I am not sure why no one else knows how to repair them.
As soon as I am able to afford some new servers, I will be buying them. I will have to make sure that I call around to the different repair men to see what is more commonly used and buy those, so that I am not taken advantage of again by the dell repair company that knew I had no other choice and let me know it. I will never call that place again for anything.
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12/16/2009
The system x servers, the owner of the coffee shop picked out, were on sale, and he got free shipping too. I only know this, because he has told every person who has walked through the door this morning that same story. I am not sure who would care, but actually a couple of the customers have asked him the name of the company that he got the system x servers from and they wrote it down.
I decided to just jot down the name of the site, just for the fun of it. When I got to work that morning, my boss was rambling on about how he was never going to be able to afford new xseries servers that the computer company told him he needed. I asked him how much servers usually were and he told me. This is when I pulled out the site address I had jotted down at the coffee house and looked up their price on xseries servers. I was happy to see that this site sold them for half price and included free shipping with every sale.
When I showed my boss the computer screen with the information about the price of the servers on it, I thought he was going to kiss me but instead he just told me to order them right away before the priced changed or something.
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12/15/2009
The exterior painting company that my neighbors hired has really taken their time in prepping the house before they paint it. They have made sure to cover every window with plastic and also all of the landscaping. My neighbor told me that they would be here sometime this week, and I had been expecting them. They were much quieter than what I thought they would be but almost too quiet, I forgot several times during the day that they were even there.
They finished the entire house painting in less than eight hours. I guess when you bring that many workers and you prep the house so that you can just continuously paint then it helps you do your job more efficiently.
When my neighbors returned home that evening, I bet that they were surprised to see that the house painting was complete. The house looked completely different and I am sure that they were probably very proud of the house now that it looked completely different in a good way. It had needed a house painting for about two years now and I knew that they did not have the money until recently when one of them got a big promotion at their job.
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12/02/2009
I asked my mother if she thought I should get new efficient vinyl windows installed in my house, and she said that if it would help with my energy costs then I should consider it. She had put new basement windows in last year, and could not believe how much lower her heating bills were. She had not realized how much cold air was seeping into the house until she had the new basement windows put it and felt the difference.
I called the same company that she had used and scheduled a time to meet them at my house to do an estimate. I let them know that I was very interested in having efficient vinyl windows put in my house and told them also who had referred me to them. I think they send the person who referred me a gift certificate from a local restaurant or something.
When they showed me the estimate for the new vinyl windows, and then projected how much I would be saving on my heating and cooling bills by installing them, I could not pass it up. The salesman who did the estimate told me that he remembered my mother and asked if she was satisfied with her new basement windows. I informed him that she was very satisfied, and that was the reason why I was having them do the work for me.
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12/01/2009
I was happy to see the Colorado remodeling contractors at my house bright and early on Monday morning. I was hoping that they would start the job today and get it done by the first snowfall. Fall was definitely coming to an end and I wanted to have the addition done before it got too cold. I knew that the Colorado remodeling company had told me that they would not have any heat in the new room for about two weeks after it was started. That would put it at about November 15.
When the remodeling crew was almost done I was supposed to call the Andersen Windows Colorado company to install the same windows that were in the entire house into the new addition. The remodeling contractors that I hired did not offer Andersen Windows, so I called the company that I knew did offer them. I had hired them about a year ago, and they completely replaced every window in my house. I could not have anything but Andersen Windows in the new room or it would look strange.
I am excited to have some extra space in my house. This new addition is going to be a huge family room and entertaining is going to be a lot easier once it is done.
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11/30/2009
I was working at my desk rewriting the rough draft of my first book. I had been hired to work for one of the greatest publishing companies in the world. The only problem was that I worked in the stock room and not upstairs in the publishing room. I thought that if I delivered office supplies to the higher ups, that they might take a look at my first book and tell me what they thought.
I was the number one guy in the office supply room so I could send everyone else to the other less important aspects of the publishing company building and then handle all of the publishers directly myself. I think that most of them knew me by my first name and they all knew that very soon I would be bringing them to look over.
I think that they must be used to people giving them their book to consider publishing but I am sure that it does not usually come from the man in charge of the office supply department of their building. If they like it and they offer to publish it then I may consider taking a leave of absence until it is completed to make sure that I can devote all of my time and energy into making any necessary changes they deem necessary.
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11/24/2009
I had decided to let my kids wear funny shirts for our family portrait. My sister thought that it was a huge mistake but I wanted to have them pick out the funny t shirts that they think best fits them, and wear it. I was excited to see what they would pick out and I hoped that it is appropriate for a family photo.
Now, I was not worried about my five year old son, but my sixteen year old daughter could have picked out one of those funny t shirts that talk about an older subject. I knew I was going to have to have faith in her and trust her to do the right thing.
I sat down with both of my kids and they showed me the funny shirts that they have picked out to wear. I am happy to report that both of them had picked the same color, and they were totally appropriate for our family photo. The funny t shirt that my husband picked out was not funny and the kids kept telling them that, the whole ride to the photographer’s studio.
Our pictures turned out beautiful, and I would not have changed any of the funny shirts that we wore, it is just who we are.
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11/23/2009
My company used to offer us free life insurance, but with the way that the economy is right now, they had to take that benefit away. I had always thought that since I had life insurance through them, that I was prepared. Now, I need to start shopping around with different agents to see what kind of life insurance rates are out there and if I can even afford them.
I think that I heard if you get some no medical exam life insurance that it may be slightly higher than the other policies but it can be put in place much quicker than the rest also. I am looking for something to take effect quickly so I called three different local insurance agencies and asked them what kind of life insurance rates a forty five year old woman would be looking at and they told me that everyone is different and I would have to answer a few questions and then see what the no medical exam life insurance policy for me would be.
I was able to get the three quotes back within a few days and found that the life insurance rates were not as bad as I was expecting. I was going to get no medical exam life insurance for slightly higher than what I had been paying for with my life insurance with my company and I also had additional coverage.
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11/20/2009
I would love to get our whole family some funny shirts to wear for our Christmas card photo. Each and every year my parents, my sisters’ family’s, and my family get together, to take our annual photo at the beach. We all take a year in planning what we want the theme to be. Sometimes we dress very nice and sometimes we just try different things. I am in charge of this year and I think that funny t shirts would be fun.
I forwarded an email onto everyone and gave them the name of the best funny shirts sites that I could find. I asked them all if they could pick out and order funny t shirts for their entire family and that is what we would be wearing for our Christmas pictures this year. Everyone thought that it was a cute idea except for my mother. She said that she thought that her and my father were a little too old to be wearing funny t shirts.
Since my mother did not want to do it, I thought that maybe just the grandkids could wear funny shirts and everyone else could just wear plain t shirts but in different colors. That seemed to make my mother very happy and so we ended up going with that idea.
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