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Impossible. Not going to happen. If you've been following the news lately, you can see the man is unhinged. Everyday he says something stupid or self-incriminating. Yesterday, I read he's attacked his his former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany. He claims she understated his poll numbers to Ron DeSantis by calling her "Milktoast" and many conservative republicans are saying Trump's comments have become insane, pathetic and unacceptable. Some have called his last attack “a canary in the coal mine” moment for the former president.

Last week, he claimed if elected, he will change the constitution.
Oh? I wasn't aware presidents had such powers.

He's still bumping in the night over what is and what should never be regarding documents taken from the White House. The lies exceed the truths. I read his attorneys have briefed him on the possible outcome of the investigation.

It's been a busy week for me and it's not over. I've got one installation going on very well with the exception of the kitchen island. The client did a walk-thru and said it's too big. Okay, we followed the architectural dimensions, made a perspective layout. He's got a designer and general contractor involved. No problem. We're sending out a change order and making one cabinet smaller.
Next!
Another installation, in a highrise. We couldn't deliver because the elevator was broken. The elevator in the other tower was working, so my people had to carry all the cabinets, doors, and panels, across a catwalk, making double work to get the delivery done.

On the ground it was breezy, normal for the beach. The seas weren't choppy. At the top of the condo, the wind was 20 to 30 miles per hour.

Here's a view from the catwalk...



Depending on the view, it's a sea of blue and a sea of green.

I joined Connecting Singles in July of 2018. While some people have complained that I write 3 to 4 blogs a day. I'm currently on 1,639 and lost a few when the moderators cleaned their system.

Doing some simple math of 5 years at 360 days per year or 1,800 days not counting one or two leap years total in that time period. That's less than a blog a day and not 3 to 4 as others have claimed. Amazing.

The main blog page states:
"A Blog is a journal you may enter about your life, thoughts, interesting experiences, or lessons you've learned. Post an opinion, impart words of wisdom, or talk about something interesting in your day. Update your blog on a regular basis, or just whenever you have something to say. Creating a blog is a good way to share something of yourself with others..."


Limits aren't mentioned and I'm okay with that... you should be too.

Since Sunday, the 21-foot tourist submersible named the Titan had gone missing, news sources repeated the same story simply because they had no hard facts. Thursday morning, Debris found 500 meters from the Titanic are believed to be from the missing submersible Titan. The only confirming fact at this point is an implosion failure and all on board have perished.

Who was on board?
HAMISH HARDING
SHAHZADA DAWOOD and his son SULEMAN
PAUL-HENRI NARGEOLET
STOCKTON RUSH

What did they expect to see?
A once-in-a-lifetime close-up viewing experience of the Titanic that went down 100 years ago.

Whats next?
Additional searches to recover the bodies and all parts of the submersible.
Investigations as to how and why this disaster occurred.
Lawsuits upon lawsuits...

Bret is currently a tropical storm in the Atlantic Ocean headed West and predicted to cross the Dominican Republic this weekend.
Too soon to batten down the hatches, but it's advised to store water, canned foods, check the batteries on flashlights and get any safety gear ready for the storm that could possibly move into the Gulf of Mexico within a week from now.
Change the setting on your refrigerators to the coldest, fill a few bottles with water and keep in the freezer so you will have enough ice to keep perishables from going bad if you are without power.


Tracking updates from the National Hurricane Center:

All politicians make promises if elected. Some have good intentions, but a lack of understanding how to actually get their promise implemented. For example: Repealing the Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare that went into law in 2010 and replacing it with something better and cheaper. Not happening. Constructing a wall between Mexico and the US to reduce illegal immigration and having Mexico pay for it. Not happening.
Another?
"I"m going to enforce all lors concerning the protection of classified information. We can't have someone in the oval office who doesn't understand the meaning of confidential or classified"

Anyway... there's a new video about it.




(Some people from New York mispronounce laws as lors, about the same way they pronounce caulking as corking or soffer in place of sofa)

Living in a 55 and older community only has some benefits and a longer list of 'not so good' things. Last week, the paramedics were in front of one of the units around the corner from me. This morning while doing my walk, I see a pile of things next to the dumpster. Crutches, a few different walkers, a shower bench to name a few. My guess is the person from last week didn't make it and the apartment is being cleared and prepared for sale.

Sadly, this happens often in retirement communities. A friend once said "There's only one way out!"

One thing that caught my attention in the pile of junk... a vertical flat screen TV with a floor base. My guess is it was used in retail advertisement. Very cool and I was hesitant to run back, get my car and bring it to my condo. Groan... not one more thing. So, I passed it by.

Actually, if there's something I'd like to get my hands on is a reel-to-reel tape recorder. I've got lots of rock band rehearsal and concert tapes I'd like to transfer to a digital format.
There are places that do it for a fee... thanks I'll keep looking.

One man's junk is another man's treasure.

While it would be nice to purchase a new car, I'm not prepared to have payments for the next 4-5 years. My current car is 'growing old' quickly with all the miles I'm driving. Several coworkers have purchased pre-owned vehicles from 'off lease only' saving thousands on low mileage cars that are still under manufacturers warranty.
I believe the answer is really to keep the car and rent/sell my current house and rent/purchase something much closer to my job.

Little by little, we've been in renovation mode fixing things around the house getting it ready to carry out a plan. I'm teetering about saving money (for a purchase) or spending money in renovation that could increase the current value.

It's summer and rent prices are lowest right now. If I wait too long apartments in the area near my office will jump up as much as 50%

Soon, but not now.

Living a simple lifestyle and 2 hours less on the road 'driving to and from' means 2 hours more to enjoy life.

The word inspiration comes up frequently in my business, usually mentioned by clients and their designers. They email or text to me photos of kitchen or furniture ideas they have seen online.

If you didn't know, I design and sell custom cabinetry.

Today, I received a photo of a long TV wall unit with floating shelves and a fake fireplace in the middle. The customer gave a description of what they liked about the photo and what they want different. Got it. My meeting with the client is tomorrow. I'll be ready.

Yesterday was a similar scenario. I received a few photos on Monday, we met in the showroom on Wednesday. The woman was very impressed with my presentation and the products we manufacture. When asked how long I've been doing designs, I said "I had brown hair when I started in this business!" We laughed, she liked the joke and felt comfortable with my ability to design a great kitchen for her and her husband.

I was at a previous job for 8 years and it's a good feeling being in the groove again.

A little personal life reveal here.
I thought at my age, I would semi-retire, pick a few projects and have more than 50% free time. That hasn't happened. The company I'm working for got stronger after COVID. We opened a showroom last year and the owner wants greater sales this year.
While we were allowed to use the showroom during construction, we couldn't make any financial transactions until the city signed off on the building permit. I had a client meeting the morning the building inspector gave us the 'go-ahead' and I made the first sale in the new building. Milestone.

That means, new logo, shirts, business cards. I'm enjoying the new look!

This week was hectic with lots of appointments and a few new projects to price.
I'm feeling some pressure to have all my commitments on time. If there is a time constraint, I still make my meetings and gather more information for the next meeting. This is okay as every project has multiple sets of revisions. So if my drawings aren't 100% complete for the meeting, my presentation is good knowing client revisions are normal.

I reached out to some older contacts and they have started bring me new business. Passing by a jobsite with a new house going up, I connected with the general contractor and will have the opportunity to bid that project and get added to bid any future projects they have. Win-win.

I think the new car purchase this year is also a boost of positive energy. Nothing wrong with the previous car, as it was only 3 years old. I do a fair amount of highway driving and the new car rides nicer, more comfortable with less interior road noise.

Things are good. Real good. My mood is up, I decided to use a designer who had some free time to help me with drawings. I'm using her as a tool to allow me to be more productive and not use my additional free time for play and not work.

That brings me to a few things. Hopefully we all know the distance of Internet (not seeing, hearing people as in real life) often reflect a view that is different to what the person is like in real life. Because of this, some people could be perceived as arrogant, moody, aggressive, mean spirited or bitter when they are actually not. Like a mirror, I've returned less-than pleasing comments with less-than pleasing comments. That doesn't show me in the light I would like to be seen. Someone said 'don't argue with a fool, they will bring you down to their level' I must remember that.

Member gonelikethewimd who is like her name, comes in only to comment and quickly disappears. She commented on another blog that I appear to be taking all the news surrounding ex-president Trump personally. Could it be? I respect her opinion, but every news channel, Yahoo page, YouTube video is 95% about him. In truth, there is nothing I could that could add or subtract to what is going on with the lying and legal mess he created. We can only wait and see the outcome.

My inspiration blog...