Crazy Two Days
Wow this has been a crazy few days
- Wednesday night the oil tank runs out and thus no hot water or heat
- I wait up for the guy to come and put in some emergency oil and get the furnace going
- Thursday morning up at 3:30 am to get into Logan and jump a flight to NYC
- Run around the city to meetings with six different companies
- Take the bus to New Jersey to crash for the night at Steve’s place
- Get up early this morning and drive to Newark to catch a plane to Pittsburgh
- Full afternoon meeting
- Now sitting at the Pittsburgh Airport (free wifi!!!) and waiting for my plane to take me home to Boston
I could have stayed over but wanted to get home because Dylan has a soccer game tomorrow and then tomorrow night is family night. We are going to go into Boston. Do a really nice dinner with the kids and then take them to see the stage production of High School Musical. They don’t know about any of it so it’ll make for a fun time. I can’t wait.
Now, while I don’t want to do these sort of trips all that often it was completely worth it. Signed new business, got some other business extended and had some great face-to-face meetings with a ton of people I’ve only interacted with online and on the phone.
Oh, and I can’t forget that my new blog for Entrepreneur Magazine went live last night as well!
November 3rd, 2007 at 8:23 am |
Wow. That’s a lot of stuff going on.
You need to sign up for automatic oil delivery if you haven’t already.
Congrats…
November 3rd, 2007 at 11:37 am |
Oh, we’ve got it set up, but they had not come for some reason. Not a way to make a first impression for sure.
November 4th, 2007 at 2:45 pm |
CC - just curious - how did your heart take it when you saw the bill for heating oil? I hear it is up by more than 25% over the price per gallon from last year.
Time for an alternative!
November 5th, 2007 at 6:36 am |
It wasn’t as bad as I thought it might be to be honest. Locking in a price sure does help.
I am actively looking at alternative power sources. I think we all need to be.
November 6th, 2007 at 3:40 am |
I wonder how your dealer is doing if he is selling the oil at a below market price? I hear that several small dealers in the area that sold fixed price contracts are in danger of bankruptcy because they did not expect or plan for the price increases. Maybe there is a reason they were late.
November 8th, 2007 at 11:29 pm |
I know that if I locked in last year I would have lost money. I am going to gamble again this year and see what happen. Next year is the switch to a Bosch tank less water heater and new windows. Maybe even propane conversion from oil. THey give you the tank and install right? LoL