19 packages on Friday was probably a record

They were mostly DHL and some FedEx Ground.  Two customers each had multiple packages.  I was really stretched, because I found I needed to increase my aptitude in flow and accuracy on my shipping software in order to process several packages in real time with the customer still with me.  Also I was accustomed to having more time to myself in order to accommodate special requests that included inventory I did not have in the store.  It was clear that it is becoming time for having a second person at the store for so many reasons.  Leslie threw in her support on getting materials and giving extra tape onto boxes and nearly had a car wreck.  I had to resolve carrier pickup issues and customer service issues on the fly as my non-package business saw an increase as well.  My print driver from my primary computer went on the fritz which made work on 99blocks documents, map-quests, and invoices interesting (running to the back office to receive email as an attachment or print off an usb stick) .  The highlight of the day, Leslie got a contract commitment from The View on Elm.   We went to have a nice dinner at Liberty Oak which was much deserved by all.  Praise God that he let us make it to the weekend. 

Closing the gap

Enough money to pay the rent and the phone is not making money, but its a lot closer than not being able to pay the rent.  Today I saw sales enough that now the next thing to see will be closing the gap.  Margins have to be multiplied by sales to equal or exceed total expenditures.  That will not be sufficient but then the next thing to see will be enough gross for healthy development.  Then, that will not be sufficent because then the next thing to see will be a healthy return on investment for all contributors. 

Sufficiet to say, I saw it as a good day: the losses are tolerable for the moment and the growth is in the right direction. 

Don’t get excited!

I believe I rightfully put a lot of time towards this one thing.  Putting on the right attitude.  To get much done, I must be at peace.  Since there are naturally more problems than can be solved at any given time the peace has to come from within not from the outside.  I pray, I read the bible, I spend time resting, eating, bathing, etc.  I do my best to maintain relationships with family and friends who care and allow me to care about them. 

When I start with eliminating worry then it seems like I’m making space for things to work out.

Here’s to a great upcoming week, in advance. 

Donna Drummond McCranie

We were sorry to lose Donna Drummond McCranie this past week.  She was Neal Drummond’s, my sister and I wish I had a chance to know her better.

 During the holidays she took me into her house when I no place to go, and showed me hospitality.  She sent me home with homebaked goods galore to get me through the difficult days. 

Her obituary can be found at http://www.legacy.com/News-Record/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=94805555

Her guest book can be found at http://www.legacy.com/WinstonSalem/GB/GuestbookView.aspx?PersonId=94701643

Our prayers are with you and your family, Neal.

Viewing will be at Forbis & Dick Guilford Chapel, tonight September 21st 2007  from 6-8pm.

Forbis & Dick Funeral Home Guilford Chapel 5926 West Friendly Avenue Greensboro, NC 27410

(336) 299-9171 www.forbisanddick.com

The funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, September 22, at Muir’s Chapel UMC.

                                                      

Burial will be private at a later date.

Billy Jones wearing a ConvergeSouth T-Shirt, riding a motorized bicycle

 

A little while back I had the great pleasure of a personal visit from Billy Jones aka Billy the Blogging Poet of www.streetplanes.com fame and so much more:  Poetry, getting paid for bloggin and webcontent, Electric and Gas powered bicycles and tricycles, Window restoration with David Hoggard.  Wow! What an inspiring person.

It makes me wish I had my stuff more organized so that I had the time to implement the influence and direction of this cat. 

Billy if you have time, return! I’m willing if not ready for putting the right kind of advertising on this blog and www.yourblocks.com (my wife’s blog), putting up some of the content we are both interested on the internet for a wider world to see while getting the content providers and perhaps myself compensated (if I can learn quick enough to not be rendered technologically obsolete).

Thanks Billy for the plug on one of your blogs, which was it http://www.musecrafters.com/hot/story.php?title=Good_Morning or was it www.bloggingpoet.com? Please excuse me because I’m new to the dangerous world of blogging.

He’s also heavily promoting ConvergeSouth!  You’ll probably see my wonderful wife, Leslie Gydos at that bloggers super-convention.  (I’ll probably be at the store)

The Postalheaven ad on the back cover of 99 blocks

  

Not the only major event to happen this week, but must be noted.

Bill Hancock, the editor, brought me some pre-release issues in the middle of last week.  I thought the ad looked great.  I think Bill is doing an awesome work with this magazine.  I hope many others catch on to this concept.  I believe I am investing into something worthwhile when I buy an ad from this guy.  I know he is working very hard to get others to believe in a downtown  worth having.

Fionna, the designer did a great job of distilling my needs down to a working advertisement.  I particularly like the logo she designed for me to my specifications.

At this time Bill gives you Fionna’s great design work on your ad for free with the already great prices for getting the word out in a refreshing magazine which is direct mailed to Fisher Park, North Aycock, Downtown, and Southside. 

If you need to increase the demand for your services in Greensboro, please contact Leslie, my wife, who is transitioning from a nice stint with The Retired and Senior Volunteer Program of Orange County to being the being an advertising representative at 99 blocks.  See her blog at www.yourblocks.com.  Or you can leave a message for her with me at Postal Heaven 336-525-4010.

Sept 10th 2007

Today is Leslie’s and my 8th Anniversary. 

I, also announced that I was going into full operation today.

That means I’ll be at Postal Heaven in the morning before 8am until 6pm Monday – Friday until I find someone who can be trained to relieve me for some of those hours so I can do other business.

Nonetheless I expect today to be a rather ordinary day. 

I’m excited about the backpage ad coming out on the back of 99blocks magazine on Thursday the 13th.

Happy Anniverasary, Honey, can you believe we made it this long? I hope that with God’s help I can make the rest of our time better.

99blocks and Postal Heaven

Leslie, my wife,  met Christina Michaels (the reporter for 99blocks) earlier this year when David Spangler (the attorney who is my landlord) took her to a Greensboro Merchants Association to talk about Postal Heaven.

Then I got a phone call from Anita Byrd (the former Sales Rep. for 99blocks) to see if I could do some printing for them. 

Shortly thereafter Jessica Davis (soon-to-be Troutman, the photographer for 99blocks) came by and took photos of me and the store which they used in a photo essay about new businesses in their Sept 12th issue.  They came out very nice. 

Bill Hancock the publisher stopped by briefly to get the magazines out on another occasion. 

But more significantly he came back recently on Thursday Sept 24th and just when he was out the door I found out that he lost his sales representative.  I told him that I might be able to do something for him. 

First I called my mother-in-law, Jane Holmes (retired from 27 years as English teacher in the public schools) because a few months back she said that her contribution to Postal Heaven would be an initial print advertising push.  So I asked her to help me with buying some ads. 

Then I called Leslie, my wife, and told her the situation about Bill needing a sales representative and she said, “Why not me?”.  So I said, “Why not”.  I’m glad she thought of that!  : )  

I called Bill the next day and mentioned that I had made a sale on our behalf, and asked him to come to the store. Then Leslie came to the store that afternoon and Bill returned to meet her.  She return interviewed with him on Tuesday Sept 28th and that afternoon she started on her first sales calls.

Its only been a week and she is doing the 99blocks gig part-time while she rides out a notice at her other part-time job at the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program in Chapel Hill.  Every morning and evening, Leslie also takes care of her 92-year old grandmother Dot Barnwell, who needs extra care.  (There’s more about Dot Barnwell in an earlier blog post below).  Also Leslie makes it to our country house about 6 times a month to pile up food for the cats there and do basic maintenance. Nonetheless, with all that other stuff on her Leslie has already gotten some commitments for ads and still makes time to exercise.

You can read a great post that she wrote called, “Sold Ad and fell on Bum” at her new blog http://yourblocks.com/ which is all about her and what happens as she tries out this new sales gig.

So through the weekend and holiday and yesterday, I put the raw material together for Fionna Mariani the Designer, so she could assemble a mock-up of my back page ad on 99blocks.  It should run from 9/13 – 11/1, and if business is up, I will probably continue to advertise there.  Whew! Putting those specifications together for her was exhausting. I don’t envy her because this might be a challenging ad to put together cleanly.

You can contact Leslie Gydos at leslieblocks@bellsouth.net or call at 336-525-4010 if you are interested in advertising to a hip new Downtown Greensboro magazine that is directly mailed to all its residents.  The price of the ads are amazing and if you are targeting the downtown demographic you won’t find a better deal. 

OFFNRUNNING used the Round-A-Bout as their stage for foot races on Saturday

To see their website see:
www.offnrunningsports.com

Here is the leader of the pack for the 5 year olds as they crossed in front of Postal Heaven, our store.

They also had a retro competition and here are some of the competitors.

This a better idea of what the whole scene looked like:

Getting less primitive

I have three personal bank accounts, a ministry bank account, and two business bank accounts.  That doesn’t mean I have a huge amount of money.  It just means I have a lot to keep up with in the banking department.  Two of those accounts had never been on online banking before.  It wasn’t as smooth and easy to get online with them now as I could hope for.  Nonetheless it is now accomplished that I can see all of my bank accounts online.  Actually what motivated me to do this is that I don’t have a huge amount of money and I don’t want to mess up. 

Right now I am keeping track of expenses in the XP text editor Notepad.  This is where I break it all down by category.  I also had a database going with some expense breakdowns for earlier months. 

So in order to look at this whole year in perspective I need to convert my Notepad expense data into the older database format then take the bank statement for the months which have not yet been analyzed and add it into that new merged database. 

The amount of work it took to update the August expense sheet versus the amount of transactions was excessive and the whole thing points for the need of an accounting system. 

Ideally this new accounting system will interface well with CashMate/PostalMate from PC Synergy and with PC Charge and whatever merchant service I decide to go with.  I believe that I already previously identified which one I needed to get, either Quicken or QuickBooks.  I have a copy of one of these but not the other. 

It will be interesting to see how well my banks information will interface with the system which I will be setting up. 

Also on the financial tip, I have three customers who couldn’t pay because I didn’t take credit cards yet

Staining and Protecting the Doors and the planter.

I’m going to push forward the renovation on the doors of the building and the planter now.  I have sanded all the larger surfaces and purchased stain and polyurethane.  

The major concern is staying out of the way of David Spangler’s law practice during the weekdays.  This means that if I need any real time to get a section accomplished, I have to do it through the weekend.  So after they leave tonight, then I will be getting right on it. 

Also, I have to protect everything from sawdust and stain etc.  Leslie helped very much in this regard last weekend by putting up protection between the door and the stairway leading upstairs to David’s office.  I didn’t have to clean up almost at all.  Tonight she may come to help me if she can find someone to look after grandmother. 

Some I have talked to are concerned that I won’t be able to get a proper stain on the door without uninstalling the doors and laying them horizontal so they can take a thick coat and absorb.  I tend to think I can start with very little stain at a time and work my way from the top down. 

Before I start I wonder if I will find much more use for the wood filler. Then I need to sand some details some of them by hand.  Then after staining and polyurethane, I will also have to find some brass cleaner and polish for the old fixtures.  You can see on the outside door on the right that the brass has been sanded down and has a metallic color while on the outside door on the left it is the color of dirt. 

Hopefully I will have the time to put up the after we are done pictures.        

                        

Postal Heaven Store Update – August 7th 2007

We are open – just not ready for grand opening!

Its best to call me since store hours are a bit inconsistent now as we are still building.

My cell phone is 336-456-3723 – Paul Gydos – Managing Owner

 products available now:

DHL / Fed Ex / USPS / Stamps & Envelopes

 Faxing / Printing / Photocopies / Mail Receiving

We also accept UPS drop-offs.

Free Coffee is available to customers. We brew Green Bean coffee with LeBlue water.

Deer Park Bottled Water $1 (can you believe the heat!)

 Store is located near the new Round-A-Bout downtown, Where South Greene Street meets McGee Street and the end of Spring Garden. 

337 South Greene (David Spangler Attorney at Law Building)

downtown Greensboro, NC 27401

I’m going to write here about DHL @ home. This blurb should be available soon.

Getting transformed into the new computing experience.

tech journal 07-27-07 copy to blog?

Getting transformed into the new computing experience.

I am filing away computer files from the Microsoft XP desktop to my data folders.

I am looking up an email communication with John Allred since I have John and Erika’s folder open. (John said I could blog about my experience sending his wife’s boxes back to Mary Kay but that may be another post)

I am listening to some music I have recorded on my hard-drive on the real player.

I have a things to do right now file opened.

There is also another browser window open with a lot of postal heaven files found on google.

There is more filing to be done from the right screen.

While I sign in to my email, I once again look at the monstrosity that Firefox became a few weeks ago when I downloaded a bunch of Mozilla plug-ins or widgets or something and now its a hulking steroids version of a browser that I can’t seem to understand. Yooni, Wizz RSS, Trails, piles and piles of new ideas in web surfing compressed into incomprehensible border icons.

Ignore all that now Paul you have things to do.

I saved that Allred Email in the Allred folder under Packages under Postal Heaven. It actually pulled back up. From experience I’ve learned that printable view is the screen that can save and be recalled for yahoo mail messages retrieved through the web-portal.

I’ve been doing all those tasks that I described at the same time on the NZXT custom built which is my front end computer. Next I’ll be doing all that next plus copying this into the blog.

Still wish I knew what all that stuff in Firefox can do for me but I think I need to do some more sanding, cleaning, and various other non-high tech tasks tonight instead of digging into that.

I guess the new computer experience will elude me for now.

News and Record Story

I never made mention here of the fantastic story about us, Postal Heaven, and the blog, that Michelle Jarboe wrote in the News and Record way back on June 24^th.  Thank you Michelle for the great job!  You said so many nice things about us that it made me embarrassed. 

I hope its ok to link to the story from here, and I put it in the blogroll too!

 

http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article AID=/20070624/NEWSREC0103/306240002/1018/NEWSREC0103

 

Here is the whole text of the portion of the article which pertained to Postal Heaven:

Article published Jun 24, 2007
Savvy Shopper: Business owner shares troubles, triumphs 

Struggling to open a mom-and-pop shop isn’t so strange.But few business owners are willing to share their frustration with the masses.No so for Paul Gydos.

Gydos, 35, has taken the troubles and triumphs of an aspiring business owner to the local blogosphere.

On a blog started this month, he has chronicled attempts to bring his business name to the top of Google searches and has posted pictures of plastic floormats that warped while sitting in his car on a hot day.

But he also hints at the personal, posting a handwritten letter to his father in mid-June and expressing his love for his wife and business partner, Leslie, in the comments.

Gydos has nothing to hide.

That becomes apparent during the first few minutes of our conversation, in which he tells me that: He’s a formerly homeless born-again Christian who met his wife when he was living on the street.

He’s had mental health problems and, at times, has relied on public assistance programs for rehabilitation since moving to Greensboro in 1996.

Before experiencing a “revelation ” about 15 years ago, he worked odd jobs, including promoting raves and parties in New York City.

And in the early ’90s, while working for retail and mailing chain Mail Boxes Etc. in Boston, he was inspired to start his own shipping store.

That took more than a decade, while Gydos moved to a new city and repaired his life.

“They say it takes a village to raise a child,” he says of that time, “but it also takes a whole city to rehabilitate an adult.”

This road to redemption, he says, is what led him to Postal Heaven, the shipping business he and his wife hope to open downtown in early July.

“Our main purpose, business-wise,” he says, “is to provide services that people need, regardless of who they are.

“But our hidden purpose is to win souls to Christ.”

Gydos says he plans to do so not by preaching — though he will riff about anything from Jesus to downtown rehabilitation and from social justice to public transportation once you get him going — but by filling needs and setting an example. Call it shipping services with an optional side of spirituality.

Once Gydos overcomes his technical problems — what he describes on his blog as a “battle with machines ” — his store will offer shipping by the big guys, including DHL, UPS, FedEx, U.S. Postal Service, Greyhound Package Xpress and Amtrak Express.

On top of printing and faxing services, Postal Heaven will offer digital-photo processing, key copying and rentable office and work space. Clients will pay $8-an-hour introductory rate for a package of unlimited long-distance calling, 25 black-and-white prints and use of Internet access or a computer. Gydos will throw in a cup of coffee for free.

“There’s a good chance of finding me at the store right now,” says Gydos, who won’t let pre-opening problems keep future customers and friends out of Postal Heaven.

You can find him there most weekdays between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.. unless he’s taking a break for lunch. Or you can visit with Gydos on his blog — “Setting up a Mail and Parcel Service Bureau: Overcoming Adversity ” at http://postalheaven. wordpress.com.

Once Postal Heaven opens at 337 S. Greene St., its hours of operation will be 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday to Friday.

Do you have retail news for Michelle Jarboe? Call 373-7075 or send e-mail to mjarboe@news-record.com

Copyright © 2007
The News & Record
and Landmark Communications, Inc.

From My Point of View

There’s the store.  I have taken time out for God and Leslie is asleep.  So why am awake at such a late hour?  Because what is going on here, the store. Sometimes my mind wanders to abstract things: ideas, inventions, stuff that is not as tangible as, I am building a store. I am in the store because I want to please customers. I need to make an income. I think that I can do this. 

My awesome and longsuffering wife

    

Leslie (my wife) came over to the store after an appointment yesterday and planned to help me on hanging the curtains. We worked with the hardware for the curtains for a little while when I realized that the new curtains made the windowsill look old and that I wanted them painted.
The conversation went something like this:

Me to Leslie, “So we hang up the curtains and then we take them down again when we paint the windowsills” (by the way “we” in this case means Leslie – she’s the expert painter not me)

Leslie to Me, “What do you mean ‘when we paint the windowsills’?. The windowsills look fine.” (translation – ‘I’m too tired to want to paint the windowsills’)

Me to Leslie, “We’ll I’m going to want to paint the windowsills, they don’t look good next to the new curtains.”

Leslie to Me, “The windowsills look fine.” (translation – ‘I’m still too tired to want to paint the windowsills’)

Me to Leslie, “So I guess I’ll hire someone else; I’ll pay you $30″

Leslie to Me, “You don’t have to pay me.” (sigh)

Well I got her to do it and they look fantastic, just like the rest of the paint jobs she has done for the store.

Thanks Leslie, You know I think you’re the greatest!!!!!

I’ll attach photos to this post as soon as I can.

        

Tonight I’m at Dot Barnwell’s home in Burlington

Although I keep a residence in Greensboro, and Leslie, my wife owns a home in Caswell County, when we have what is closer to  normal family life it is at Dot Barnwell’s home.  Dot is 92, and a very fantastic person, whom we brag about frequently. 

 

Dot wrote her third book, Years from Home at age 89, see:(http://www.publishamerica.com/shopping/shopdisplayproducts.asp?catalogid=11890 or cheaper if you are a barnes and noble member http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?r=1&ean=9781424100361 also found on about a dozen other websites for sale) and had it published by an on demand company.  Her mind is very sharp and she is the picture of many virtues. 

Her longevity and graces can be credited to her character but in my opinion also as much to Leslie, my wife (http://www.myspace.com/noblevine)  as I believe that Leslie’s constant love and care of her has much to do with it.   

However as of late Dot had three bad falls.  The first fall fractured her humerous near the shoulder and was severely delipating and brought on very severe syncope attacks which can cause sudden cardiac death.  In the second fall, she fractured a rib.  On the third fall she scalped the back of her head really badly.

Nonetheless we spend a considerable amount of time here at this time. 

We ask you pray in Jesus for her recovery as she still has vitality otherwise and a desire to live.

We ask you pray in Jesus for Leslie who can become strained as caretaker, daughter, wife, part owner of Postal Heaven and part time employee of R.S.V.P. Retired and Senior Volunteer Program in the Dept. of Aging of Orange County Goverment.(http://www.co.orange.nc.us/aging/RSVPindex.asp or see the new orange county senior center at http://www.co.orange.nc.us/aging/index.asp)

Also keeping it lively at Dot’s is Jane Holmes, Leslie’s Mom, who lives nearby.  Jane is an accomplished Public School Teacher who had over 25 years in the Almance Regional system in the English Dept., and was the Chairperson of the Dept. at Cummings High School.

We ask you pray in Jesus for Jane for numerous health issues.

News and Record

  

Downtown Parking Meter Story with Postal Heaven quotes:

http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070620/NEWSREC0103/306200004/1018/NEWSREC0103

Some free press. I don’t know if it came out right.  I was merely pointing out that meters were not to be a concern at my location because of the abundance of underutilized free 2 hour parking in my exact spot.  Not necessarily true at other locations.  I wonder if this story will make press; I think this writer is primarily working on the N&R online version.

Also apparently there will probably be another news article on my sign in Sunday’s business section by another News and Record reporter.  She interviewed me for over half an hour so this story might be rich.

Now I am not placing at all under postal heaven in google.  Still no google maps update.  Nonetheless getting some attention. 

The ratings bug

 Most of my search engine efforts thus far have been to try and get it so that people can find me who know about me and know my businesses name.  If those who know us can’t find us, then we probably aren’t starting off so well on the internet. But alas some results.

If you type in postal heaven in google right this moment today it might bring in www.postalheaven.com, my dummy web page holder for my domain until I develop a real website.  However I’ve noticed it keeps flashing on and off from that position to apparently nowhere for some reason I can’t figure out.  I’m still waiting for maps.google.com to update and recognize my position and store information, my account keeps telling me “awaiting update”. Also a certain post of this blog, www.postalheaven.wordpress.com (also found at www.jesuspost.com) comes up if you google postal heaven and select blogs.

If you type in postal heaven in yahoo at this moment today it brings up our yellowpages.com listing for our FAX line which I did not label FAX line.  So thus it has caused some voice calls to come in to my fax line.  Most notably I got a call from anita at 99blocks, a magazine which will be getting off the ground about downtown greensboro. The second listing for yahoo under postal heaven is my www.postalheaven.com dummy web page holder for my domain until I develop a real website.

Also it pays to look carefully, at least in terms of when I search for myself, On result number 19 on yahoo for postal heaven I got http://www.downtowngreensboro.net/Enewsletter6-14-07.html - A small mention in the newest Downtown Greensboro Inc., newsletter that I am soon opening.

So far nothing at msn’s search bar.  Oh well Redmond should get better taste!

Happy Father’s Day

Happy Father’s Day 

Thank You Dad for all the love and support you have shown me through the decades.  Please remember to keep the stress level down.  I hope that when its time and you come here, you’ll like my work.  I love you Dad.  I hope you have a great day.  I wish I could be with you.

 Love, Paul

 

Success / Failure

In my battle with machines, I won a round today.  In the more important struggle to make a life in the image of Jesus, I failed big time.

I came to the Green Bean this afternoon after stopping by our store, Postal Heaven. I brought with me my old mini-laptop, my Toshiba Libretto 100CT.  A real cute little machine which was probably a better idea than an actual machine.  In January it stopped working just about when I was getting used to it.  For a little while it was my only functioning machine.

Then the screen stopped working well enough to read. I found a guy who had a Libretto available for parts on eBay.  He lived here in Greensboro and we did a quick transaction with cash at a CVS.  It was sort of weird, like a drug transaction on TV.

I had to put the project on the shelf because other things have been more important.  Today I brought the two computers to the coffee shop with me. I took the screen out of one.  That one had been already opened with the assistance of my brilliant and beautiful wife Leslie.  I put it in the other after removing the malfunctioning one.  Voila! It worked right off and with a beautiful picture.

Its so nice when something technological actually works the way it is supposed to.

I’ve been praying that I would be able to solve some of the tech problems which have been plaguing me.  More importantly than tech solutions that actually work, is that all the work pleases God and hopefully makes a nice family.

Earlier today before my little tech success was a big family failure, where I let my wife down in a dramatic way.  Apparently I am under more stress than I realize.  Now I wonder if I am need of some sort of professional counseling.  Of course my brilliant wife had pre-anticipated this need and she had a number of a christian counselor who takes my insurance on hand already.

Sometimes others know you better than you know yourself, at least in some specific regards.

using wordpress, can I move comments

I found out a way to do what I want to do:

 

I’ll refresh you –

 

I want to make the post about my sign, my “about” section,… then make that the heading of the blog, … but … I want to move the existing comments to the new ”about” section.

 

I found the information I need to try and do it:  (reprinted below from a forum post),

 

No doubt, now that I found the information on how to do that I’m also going to want to get to know how to deal with images in word press,…. and also get the networking problem fixed which is preventing me from downloading from the camera … Then I’ll straigthen out the photos that go along with my signage post!

 

I welcome my ownself to the world of blog.

 

Googled: using wordpress, can I move comments

Found on http://en.forums.wordpress.com/rss.php?tag=move

Title of Page: WordPress.com Forums Tag: move

  timethief on “Can you move a comment to

    a diff post?”

Wednesday, May 16, 2007, 2:18:50 PM | timethief

Yes there is no automatic way. You will have to do it manually.(1) You will have to copy and paste the comment into the second post first as though it came from yourself. (2) Next you edit the comment and change the username, email address, website and IP numbers.(3) Lastly, you go back to comment on the original post and delete it.The easy way is to email the person who left the comment and ask them to post the comment again to the second blog post.

Organizing Day

 

   

 

June 14^th, 2007

Today has been yet another organizing day.  I’ve gotten used to about 9am to go to the store.  I take a break when they seem to be going to lunch upstairs.  I leave in the evening.  However tonight I have returned.  Why? Because it seems I have not organized enough.  I am trying to get into straight merge mode.  Right now the focus aught to be paperwork and documentation of which there is an inbox I have stacked up about four inches, there is a metal paper divider which has some critical files, there are four crates of files and a box which has unorganized paperwork, there are papers in the jewel drawers and there are more on the workrooms tables, as well as what I consider another project, personal paperwork.  None of that includes the paperwork disaster which I have been completely ignoring at my home.   

Right now I have as much of this paperwork surrounding me closely by my computer and I have picked a good part of it through by writing down their current structure and then integrating the most obvious parts.  For instance I took all my technology files that had to do with specific hardware and put them in a crate which had mostly other similar files.

I hate doing this but really the result won’t be the same even if I could find someone else to do it. 

 

I really wanted my blog to be more visual

I took a photo of the offending piece of equipment the Netgear SC101 Storage Device that looks remarkably like a toaster.  See the post about Technical Problems to see the new photo

 

 Also the funny moment of the week was when I tried to unfurl these rug protectors I got from Sam’s on Saturday but left in the car all day Sunday.  They became like big shrinky dinks, and where all creased.  I would step on one side of them and the other would go up and vice-versa.  It reminded me of a french comedy or the three stooges or something.  Took a photo of that.  Alas I didn’t post because I couldn’t get the photos into my computer because now my network won’t recognize the media card reader on the printer which it previously recognized. 

 Also I began to learn about my wordpress blog options, I can have my “about” post by the first post no matter what.  However, I want to take the first post to be about the sign which is not my “about” post, but now has two comments: from my wife and my mother.  I wonder if I will be able to fix the photos and move the post to the “about” section, while transferring the comments with it.  Then I can choose the option of keep “about” on top and I can get on with myself.