Thanksgiving trip with the in-laws

So, I'm back from a little vacation, which was nice.  My father-in-law treated my wife and I to a 7-day cruise in the Western Caribbean, during which we visited Belize, Honduras, and two spots in Mexico.  Honestly, I like cruises more for their day at seas more than for their ports (feel too much like part of a herd of cattle with two many time constraints on the port days), so it doesn't matter to me where I am going.  But now, I'm back, trying to get my head back into business planning and sphere of influence cultivating, activities that are much easier to do in the slower part of the real estate calender anyway.

 

The logo in the previous post was pretty well received by the few I bounced it off of, but definitely changed a bit.  The wifey vehemently disliked the handwritten aspect of the words in the card, so I changed that up and managed to get an actual font in there.  Then, my new office manager wanted me to switch the card to the ace of hearts because he felt it might soften up the logo a little bit in a good way, but that's just not able to happen based on the way the file is, so I colored the spade in a light green, which seems to serve the same purpose.  The thing I'm really not sure about is the slogan, so I've made creating a new slogan a competition for my sphere of influence, the winner of whom will get December "Client of the Month" honors and the movie tickets that go with them. :)

 

Let me think...good stories...  Really the only major thing that's happened lately is a huge $1,500 pot in a poker game on the cruise ship that didn't go my way, but I can't even send you the link to the on-line forum that discussed this hand at length because MD-Poker is down for a few days because the building that housed the server (I have no idea what this means) was sold, and now MD-Poker needs to find a new place to call home (somehow a complicated computer matter that must involve more than having an electrical outlet and a cable line).  On the home front, Sara is busy studying biochemistry and we're filling our nights with old episodes of "House, M.D." and "The West Wing"...that, and watching our undersized, 1-year old cat do stupid things like attack his electronic water filter/dish (yes, our cats have an eletronic water thing...don't yours? :) ).  (On a side night, the stupid cat got so into attacking his water thing when we are on vacation that he pulled the power tree that it was plugged into off the wall, meaning that both the water thing and the automatic feeder didn't work for the majority of our trip, and our cats were plenty pissed at us due to hunger by the time we got home. :( ).

 

Well, I've got to shower, run to the post office, hit up the office for a few hours in getting my next mailing ready and out the door, get back home for 20 or so phone calls, and then rest a little for my 11pm soccer game (because 11pm soccer games are the most reasonable kind of games to play, of course).

 

Peace,

Greg