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On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...

...an Xbox360 fully loaded with all the fixin's -- actually, I bought that myself, well, then I bought two more and sold them on eBay for about $400 profit to cover the cost of the first one.

When the PS3 launches in 2006, I plan to buy 10-20 of them using my cousins, friends and as much family as I can find who will go to stores with me -- then I'll sell them all on eBay. I'm still kinda kickin myself for not having like 20 Xbox360's at launch to sell on eBay. They were going for over $1,000 -- and did I sell mine on launch day? Nope... I opened it and played it. There's enough money floating around in the world, but not enough Xbox's apparently. Oh well. I'd love to pick up $5k-$10k in profits from one day of driving around, picking up systems and shipping them out via eBay to some people who have to much home equity LOC cash on their hands to know what to do with it. :)

Peace out.

Back after more than a year...

Well, what can I say? It's been about 54 weeks since I last posted. Wow. That kinda sounds like an AA introduction... how 'bout you? When was your last "post" or "blog"? What prompted me to post was an email I just received from Jeffrey Gitomer, his weekly "Sales Caffeine" column that conveniently is sent around 2am every Tuesday morning. For those who don't know, Gitomer is like the new "god" of sales theory IMHO. But it's not book crap, it's practical stuff and he holds no punches - that means he tells sales people to get off their asses, quit blaming others and work hard. Anyway, Gitomer talks about writing, not "authoring" and how he has surmassed 750 weekly articles in the last 14 years. Building a legacy by writing it down.

So much has happened in my life over the past year that a simple post can't explain it all, nor do I want to bore you with it all. In brief though, I got married back on May 21st, moved to Arlington with my babe, and continue to work for the same company but on to my sixth boss in less than a year. The last couple of weeks were a bit rough for me as my father in Canada found out he has oral cancer on his tongue -- lots of thoughts racing when I found that out -- we visited my parents for Thanksgiving and felt better after seeing him. He just got out of the hospital two days ago after surgery to remove a portion of his tongue and his lymph nodes in his neck, so he's at home for the rest of the month. He may have to follow up with radiation and will get the test results back in a couple weeks to see if the cancer metastasized. Dave, where you at?

Jeremy