Business is good. Been meaning to make this post for a while now but haven't had the time. Ever since I got to the suburbs edzwoo and I have been working like mad. Putting in a good 40-50 hours each week and going in on Sundays. Warehouse is amazing but as always I think we underestimated the amount of space we need. It's a 6000 square ft warehouse and we filled up 2/3 of it in a month. Right now it's just me and edzwoo in the office and two of our high school friends in the warehouse doing the manual labor. They'll be heading back to grad school in late August though so we're in the process of hiring some full time employees very soon. Our first position is for a warehouse supervisor, which pays ~37k a year on average in our area. Have three interviews set up for the end of this week with a possible fourth. It will probably be kind of weird for them to come in and see that the guys doing the interviewing are 23 years old. I'm a little concerned about being take seriously as someone's superior at work because of my age but I guess we'll see what happens.
Setting everything up took a lot longer than expected. At one point we were showing up at 10 in the morning and leaving at 10 at night. My goal was to use our capital as quickly as possible so the warehouse space doesn't go to waste. Spent 50k in two days, 100k in a week. Not going to lie, it was a little overwhelming using up so much money in such a short period of time. Talked to a business lawyer about some legal issues recently as well just to tie up loose ends. I knew there would be a lot of little details that had to be taken care of when you move a business but there was a lot more than I expected. Things like servicing fire extinguishers, buying workman's compensation, figuring out what kind of shelves to use, and etc take up an enormous amount of time and before you know it the day is over and there's still a million things I have left to do.
One of the random problems we encountered was that our loading dock is declined. This means that when the semi trucks pull in, their trailers are at a downward angle. We had no idea this would be a problem for us until we realized that a pallet jack with a pallet holding 2000 lbs of merchandise can gain a crapload of momentum as it moves off the truck and into the dock. This wouldn't happen if the dock was leveled, but because its declined by the time it hits the ground the pallet is moving at 10-15 miles an hour. It's definitely not easy stopping that much weight when it's moving that quickly. Normally this wouldn't be a problem because warehouses have forklifts that will drive the pallet off the truck. For us, we bring everything in by hand with a pallet jack. Went ahead and bought a pallet jack with brakes the next day.
Sales are really good. We've been operational for a month and sales have already increased by 30%-40%. We're hitting all time record highs for non-holiday weeks. Once the holiday comes around we'll be getting five figure sales everyday. We've gotten big enough to the point that the local post office can't handle the amount of volume we're doing. I'm currently going back and forth with USPS's district sales manager to try and come up with a solution. They might just put us on a freight route and have a semi come by everyday to pick up our outgoing packages.
favorite audio books or radio shows or comedy?by patti, July 22
Listened to:
1) Outliers
2) Consider the Lobster
3) The Alchemist
and thought that these were all good audio books.
Some books that I think are worth reading that make terrible audio books
1) The Great Gatsby
2) Atlas Shrugged
3) Catcher in the Rye
4) God is not Great
5) The God Delusion
Also I have to highly recommend Shelly Kagan's Philosophy on Death course that is available on audio torrents.
Anything Chris Rock, Dave Chapelle's Killing them softly, there were some Mitch Hedberg and some Eddie Murphy both with funny bits but not quite as polished as the before mentioned.
Was hoping to find some new audio resources whether it is NPR radio shows, other audiobooks, or entertaining comedy
Is there a word for when something mundane and common suddenly seems alien? I just wrote down the word "broadway" and I stared at it for about 30 seconds thinking "broad" is an impossibly strange spelling and there's no way that's how it's spelt. The o before the a just looks so weird but I've wrote that words at least hundreds of times in my life.
Also when I say a word many times in a row it starts sounding like it's not a real word any more.
I don't think I'm making any sense so I'm just gonna wrap this up
Got a job as a QA analyst.
Drove down from just north of Philly where I was living, 2910 mile drive...13th time I've driven across the country. Super fucking boring.
Fantasy vs Jangbi OSL final (bets?)by whamm!, July 20
Game will be on August 4
Fanta is a huge favorite (9-0) crushing everyone heading to the finals includng 3-0 Flash(GOD).
I'm willing to bet 399usd pokerstars on Jangbi, just looking at least semi decent odds. I tried testing my poker game after almost 2 years and it's still shit lol
Final "im quitting" poker post hehe.
anything less than that would also be good. minimum of 100usd bets is fine up to 399.
btw ive done alot of Broodwar OSL finals bets and some NBA with a lot of respectable LP guys up to 500usd before e.g. Ket, Fayth, Rek, Evilsky, Bulshit etc.
was an alright day, yesterday i got 1st in the 55r on lock for 2665 and had a couple small final tables other than that.
getting otg right now, was too tired to blog last night
one time lets get a good roll runnin for the casino
oh, got unbanned from local poker from from a fight at the table (no info will be disclosed on it so don't ask) today after 13 months !
place is a ghosttown most days now though,mostly trips to buffalo and pittsburgh for live and turning stoned for poker trips - wherever the mtt is - ill be there mtting and 1/2 - 5/10in
ne ways gl guys
everyyyyyyone win this weeekendddd (from tha lp atleast~)
Ryan
today was a decent day, i started a few hours late and didn't do to well at all durin the day, then made the highroller ft's of hero and lock, to run really really bad at both final tables. 10kish up top in a really weird payout on the hero, and 4740 1st on lock.
think i won like 200 tho.
tiring, annoyed, hope i can hold some hands and get some better results in the next week or so
So I was up 25k on the day then I lost a 9k pot after 5betting AA, getting flatted by KK then jamming a T95 flop and him spiking a K on the turn and now I'm tilted and frustrated. sigh ... lol ...
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