| | Man I love music. It seems like I'm always finding more artists and bands that keep producing more music. Millions of songs and hundreds of styles and genres.
I wonder if anyone wonders how the old folks used to do it. Your average Roman citizen never heard of Disciple, Michael W. Smith, Britney Spears, Metallica or Elvis Presley. Kind of odd how technology changes our lives in ways we may never realize.
I love listening to most genres of music, but one thing I like doing is listening to secular music. It's... it's like audio-people watching. You know where on the occasion, some of us odd people will take walks or sit down in a park and observe people and their behavior? It's like that, but in audio form. I keep tabs on the world and what it's thinking. See how they act when something happens. Maybe think about what they should have done instead. Or, as I've been noticing, it's amazing to see how often wordly people will enact biblical principles and not even realize it. Or sometimes I just laugh. Next 2 You is a Buckcherry song about this guy who seems to fall in love with a very honorable young woman who won't ever compromise her standards and it's driving him crazy. It makes me smile watching simple nonconformity force the other man to conform to her ways. If she never sleeps with him, he has no choice [we're assuming that he really does love her] but to marry her and stick to her in order to get what he wanted the whole time.
^_^
Mmm. I go longer without updating more and more. I wonder how long it'll be before I just... don't do it anymore. I have a list of Xangas and tend to read... most of them. Comment on very few. *shrugs* I've been busy doing real life stuff instead of spending time MySpacing or Xanga'ing. Which... lol... is way better.
God's really been blessing me through work lately. Kelly talked to me a few weeks back about some of the older guys leaving and wanting me to train me on being Crew Chief [which essentially means that of the two people that go out, one has to be in charge and the other is just a worker. Usually I'm the "worker".] - and there's a lot more things you need to know about customer interaction, pricing, and what to do when X happens. Workers just... work. But he mentioned upselling and a few points on that... and since then I think I've upsold $1250 worth of work in... a week. That basically means that while I was there, I sold the customer to do more than what we originally showed up to do. A lot of that is just that the customer doesn't know what else we do. We're Window Gang. Who would know that by that title, that we pressure wash roofs, houses, decks, driveways. Clean out gutters and gutter facings. Seal decks, driveways, and patios. And not just pressure wash, but throw down strong chemicals on those hard surfaces. We clean out dryer vents. We sweep chimneys. Seriously. How does Window Gang = Chimney Sweeping?
But just talking to the customer, telling them "Hey, your driveways is heck of a dirty and I can make it look like new... and you're selling your house, you might like to make it look like new."
The point is that I keep 10% of that upsell. So upselling is good. =)
Let's see. You ever run into something that's really deep? Emotional, spiritual, but on the actual physical detail side you can't explain jack? It's like knowing the world is going to end and you don't know how or why. Just that it is. But then if you told anyone, no one would believe you. Yeah, like that. Being with Amanda recently is like that. If I was to just tell you, yeah we talked on the phone for X amount of minutes, took a few pictures, and saw each other a few times last week, it wouldn't... mmm. It just doesn't *sound* as awesome as it *is*.
Joseph had a movie night for Julie since she's back for... I dunno how long. A different crowd that usual at our house, but it was still fun. I haven't seen the Mask of Zorro in a long time. Mmm. And I think we have left over pizza. That is always good. So we all hung out and had a good time watching the movie and talking. Well at least I had fun watching the movie and talking. I don't know if everyone else thought it was great or not.
I got to sleep in this morning. So I'm doing good. I need to read more.
Have a good one.
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