Like Falling Drops of Mercury

The days, they slip.
So Wednesday, an impatient public demands, what of Wednesday?
Started the day with a breakfast at Weber's, with the Ann Arbor Chamber. Always a fine time, that, and I always make good connections with business leaders.
Then, back to downtown AA for a meting with a SCORE counselor. Its really good to get a fresh perspective from someone who's been in the (or any) industry for a number of years, and is not at all bashful to give one a good clear 20000 foot vision.
Then, back out on west Jackson Road to the HBA Associates meeting. A fine time was had by all - I'm really enjoying being a member. And, I think I will do some very good business there.

So then, late Wednesday I got a web site contract (I mentioned a few days ago that it would likely happen), I nearly got a short-term contract to add functionality to an existing Access-based application (project was canceled - bummer!).

Thursday, I went to WRN; a few new faces as the membership drive brought in some new blood business people. Then off to the accountants (whaddayamean I'm not on the schedule?!?! Fine, reschedule for tomorrow!), then out to a new client on Jackson Road. See a pattern? A lot of things are happening on Jackson Road, out on the west side of A2. More than Lowes and Meijer out there. Anyway, the newest client is a contract R&D house. They really, really, need help (anti-virus, malware, firewalls... just a cogent, comprehensive, uniform strategy). I'll go back next Wednesday and start the process of straightening them out.

And, lastly, a client's laptop was dying, and seeing that we must do the mature thing and let it go, we ordered him a new one last week. Well, it came today, and the old one took that opportunity to expire, peacefully. I set up the new one, but getting the files from the old one was a bit of a challenge.

Consider - its a XP Pro laptop, all the files are neatly stored in the MyDocuments folder, and the video system is totally shot. Won't even drive his external analog CRT. Well, I took it back and tried to take ownership of the folders through Server 2008.

That didn't work. Not one bit, stopped me cold. What did work... well, it drove my clunky digital LCD monitor just fine. LOL. Log in, share the folders, burn a DVD, and we're golden.

Enough already - go to bed.