Strategic Colors for my Blog

Have you ever wondered as to why I would have chosen the color orange for the dominating color of my blog? I wondered that when I created the monster. The reasoning behind this is to match the colors of my pest control company Termite Ant & Spider Control, LLC. As you will see with the company logo, it matches the orange perfectly. Now I just need some gray to accent it and I'll be set.

Subaru with Bug Trailer

This is what I was talking about in my previous posting. I've had to practice this so that when the time comes, and there is only parking for side-by-side, I'll be able to go anywhere with my little bug trailer and the Subaru. With my skills; parking skills, bug killing skills, balancing skills, minivan usage skills etc, I will be able to back the trailer in to the end of a parking stall, taking up one and a half spaces. It was great yesterday to watch peeps after the entire parking lot was full trying to pull in and then realize that my trailer was there! I could just hear the frustration put into stepping on the gas peddle as the sped away in complete anger! All this from the window of my plush corner of the office office.

My Redneck Minivan

Hey, Karla is the one that wanted a Minivan. I wanted a Tahoe. Well, we needed some floor board trim last summer, so I took the Redneck Minivan to The Home Depot. The cheapy Toys R Us stroller works out well in many situations. In the first photo, the trim went from the front driver seats between the kids car seats, over the 3rd row and over the stroller for extra support. I didn't have a red flag, but I drove really carefully.

The other photo is just the other weekend. I needed one more piece of drywall to polish off my basement bathroom. Once again, the redneck Minivan miraculously came in handy. I put the drywall in as for as it would go, then placed the stroller under the drywall ontop of the bumper. I took my tiedowns and linked the two rear seat belts (those come standard) and hooked them to the stroller. The customer parked next to me in the real Tahoe laughed as he got his kid into his car. Then, he came back and said "Do you mind if I take a photo of this? My father-in-law will never belive me!" Thats when I said "My wife wanted a Minivan, not me!"

Trailer Parking

I recently purchased a small trailer for my Pest Control business. It tows behind my subaru nicely. Here is a photo of it after I personally installed a tow hitch all by myself. As my little girl Karli frequently says "I do it myself like this!" So, today at work, I parked the car with the trailer taking up 2 parking spaces side-by-side. It is a tricky feat to accomplish, but only someone like me could do it. I'll post the photo of it some time. It was really funny cuz when we would watch it out from the office window, after the parking lot was filled, people would try to pull in and then realize my trailer was in the end of the parking stall. Then they would get mad and aggressively drive off. It was pretty good. There is another funny thing that happened here at the office that I am compelled not to talk about until a future date and then people will think that it is funny. But bringing it up now, it wouldn't be funny. I'll keep you posted.

The Jessop family before #3

The other month we had photos taken of our family at Thanksgiving Point. I took a photo of the real photo with my cell phone. So, I hope its not too fuzzy. This of Me, Karla, McKay and Karli. We'll post photos of #3 child here pretty soon, when it decides to arrive. I can call it "it" for now only because it is a suprise. We have no clue as to what it is. TTFN!

Re: Old Email Subject Lines

I'm sorry its taken me to get back into my blog. I just haven't had anything that I truly felt was worth while to add. However, I the topic just came up. Look, I'm not purposely using my blog as a venting tool, but maybe I should. Perhaps sometime I will add a happy entry in the future.
OK, now to the meat of it- "Reply Emails" are very convenient. Someone sends you a message, and you simply hit reply, and send a message right back. This might sound like Jay Leno, but how lazy are we as a society when we can't take a half second to start a new email, enter the recipients address and put in a short, simple fresh subject line? My case in point- I can't stand it when peeps email me, as a reply from an email that I sent to them weeks or even months ago. On top of that, their message has NOTHING to do with the info found in the lower portion of the email. I'm pretty sure its safe to say that pretty much every email program out there will remember someone's email address after you have received just one email, or sent just one email to that person. So to start a new email, alls you have to do is start typing the persons name and the options magically appear for you to choose. WOW! Was that too difficult?
I have a peeps that frequently send me emails, replying to one that I sent to them a long time ago. They can't seem to just go start a new email and subject line...no. They reply to an old email, with a subject line that has nothing to do with what they are inquiring about. So, unless I change the subject line in my reply to them, there is no way of tracking the communication in an effective way. Just today, I had someone get all confused about my reply to them because I purposely didn't change the subject line in my reply because I was playing them at their own game. And guess what happened? They got all confused because my reply didn't match the subject line that they originally didn't change in the reply to an old email that I originally sent to them about something else. Please be considerate of information and subject lines in emails, and don't just reply to an old one because you are too lazy to start a new one. I think that we will all be a lot happier, or at least I will anyway.