All that being said, I am not a fan of their restrooms! I have never been inside a Wendy’s restroom where there was a clean dry place to put a coat. In the winter time, I wear a coat that goes below my hips, and when I use the bathroom I like to take it off and put it on a hook. Wendy’s has neither, and I really don’t want to dump my coat on the floor or in the sink. The sinks are stand alone sinks with no counter space to put anything, so if I do put my coat in the sink it usually gets wet.

So, Wendy’s, hear my plea! Put hooks and shelves in the bathroom!

My good friend Skip, I just recently found out, has always wanted to be a 3rd grade teacher, not 2nd grade or 4th grade, it has to be 3rd grade, for reasons that he is keeping to himself at this point. And now that his kids are grown and out of the house and he and his wife split up, he is all about what HE wants and what He needs, and I think He is crazy! No not really, well maybe just a tad, it’s just that I never knew that he had always wanted to be a teacher. I know he is good with kids, but teaching them every day, day in and day out, week after week, month after month, ugh it makes my head hurt just thinking about be stuck in a classroom with 20 or 30 loud, wild and crazy 8, 9 and 10 year old kids! He really must be committed to this dream in order to be seriously talking about and checking out the online degree programs in education with The University of Phoenix which is a very well known school that offers accredited online and campus programs in education as well as numerous other programs as well.

I’m assuming that he has the money all ready saved up to take these courses, if not there is ample assistance for today’s students to aid in the cost involved in obtaining these degrees. But I’ll send him a few links that I have come up with, like the one http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/ which will take him to a Free Application For Federal Student Aid, ’tis the least I can do for the guy at this point.

So now that she is once again unemployed she is looking at some other options such as Online Trading with an Online Broker and getting started with Mobile Trading, IRA Accounts and Stock Trading. I’m afraid I will not be much help to her with this type of high finance, not something that I have checked into, but I am willing to learn and help her in any way that I can in her newest endeavour. Best of luck to you once again sis!

I have always been some what fascinated with the Advertising business, at one point I almost went to work for an Advertising Agency, but getting drafted got in the way of that and that in itself changed everything in my life. I have a few friends that are in Advertising and I enjoy conversing with them and learning some of their strategies and how they are trying hard to keep their customers happy in the 21st century’s media market as well as bringing in new customers. Advertising is still hard work and it is always changing and evolving, makes me wonder what will come next.

Trade shows are a great way to promote your company and a great place to do some major networking at the same time. He went and bought a ton of stuff for his booth/spot, like some good quality trade show flooring for starters. It is definitely not something that one person should even try and do by themselves, it would actually have been nice to have a few more helping hands with some strong backs to help as well, I was working up a sweat there at the end. There was a logo canopy, some good looking logo mats and a good sized roll of some trade show carpet that he had his company’s name printed on it, which came out pretty good I might say.

Anyway it seems to have been a success. There were only a handful of the give-a-ways left on the table. He ran out of business cards by mid-day, in which I kept razzing him about, he really should have brought more as back up, but I was just the free help there to lend a hand, in which I did a pretty good job I have to say. I’m glad that is was a success and I wish him all the luck in the world and I’ll be sure to send as many people as I can to him that need that type of mail and packaging service.

Before pay TV came around we would all pitch in and pay either their phone bill, electric bill or insurance for a full year, this check was always appreciated all year long and they are always so very happy with the channels that they can receive with Direct TV. My uncle gets plenty of sports channels and my aunt can watch all the numerous channels that they have with the female population in mind. She has several cooking shows that she looks forward to watching during the day and tons of other good shows that she would never be able to enjoy if they didn’t have the Direct TV package that we gladly purchase for them each year. It’s the gift that just keeps on giving.

I also learned that Subway just passed McDonalds for the first time in restaurant chains, but McDonalds is still selling more than anyone, anywhere.

I took a gander at a few sites earlier today that target Wholesalers, there is a lot to take in. I wouldn’t want to have to make the decision on what to buy in order to make a buck or two, but there are plenty folks out there that are trying their darnedest to survive in these horrific economic times that are government has gotten us into. It’s all about the money and it takes money to make money, right.

Come spring I’m heading out to a few of the local flea markets, I enjoy going to some of them through out the year. Some more than others. I try and stay away from ones that are full of baby products and clothes and Beanie Babies. There are good people to be found going on there folks, like I said I know many vendors that are trying to make a living doing this laborious task, week after week, month after month, year after year, rain or shine, heck it can be snowing and you would find at least a handful of people showing up looking for the “Bargain of The Day”

Years later when I left Nationwide, after they had spent millions upon millions of dollars with a Logo Design Company that came up with the following empty blue box that had us rolling with laughter and as well as bit of disgust and contempt for all that money being used and coming up with a new logo that consists of 4 blue lines. It was our opinion that the old logo was just fine and the time and money spent to come up with the new one could have put to better use, especially since many of us were being passed up for promotions, raises, bonuses and benefits were starting to be phased out.

Having a logo is very important, but it just seemed to use that if it wasn’t broken, why spend the time and money to try and fix it! All the waste that came out of that logo change, anything that had the eagle on it was to be destroyed, there was tons of that type of stuff around in just our office, much less all the other offices, all across the country that was going through the same nonsense.