good news week

Sigh, so many things to write about still, yet it takes me two three days to just squeeze out this... Hope everyone out there is doing well, I try to drop by and read your blogs when I can, most the time it's on my phone though, where it's hard to write comments (blogger and my blackberry are not on friendly terms). Cheers...

I started my new job on the first of August, but really didn't consider it my first day until this last Saturday when the new store I was hired to work in opened up. I like new things: cars, homes, apartments, work places. They feel fresh and give me the feeling of starting anew. Three of the places I've rented in the past were new, never before lived in dwellings, and the house I bought up here was too.

Saturday at work the smell of fresh paint was strong, the windows needed washing, the carpet vacuumed, the banners and posters hung. The company I work for doesn't believe in "big" openings, just word of mouth and good locations. This store has a GREAT location, so I wasn't surprised that we had a good first day, beating out the next closest company store in sales, and on Sunday we had an equally good day (and now Monday as well, although it was such a Monday, if you know what I mean...

There's only three of us working at this store, myself, a tall lankly younger guy named Jason, and the manager Crawford, and they both seem to be easy going guys, and more importantly believe in business etiquette as it pertains to a commission sales environment. I think I'm going to like it here, and better yet the store is kept at a comfortable 72 degrees...

Here's a photo of the 13 by 8 foot 42 degree refrigerator I used to work in. I'm not missing it much these days. Oh, and speaking of the old job, I found out that the girl I wrote about here has karma kicking her in the ass big time right now...

I have also been surprised by the uptick in sales of my photographs online recently, in fact July gave me the best sales month ever on two of my sites. I haven't had a chance to upload any photos lately, but after the new version of windows comes out this fall, I plan to get back to it. My Windows Vista laptop took three tries to just transfer 88 photos to a memory stick today, and I just don't have the time to completely reload the software in it to make it work right. And why bother if I'm going to replace the operating system in a few months, right?...

In other news, I received the results of my blood work that was done two weeks ago. All my tests came back in the normal range, including my PSA (which dropped down to the middle of what is considered the safe range). And now after my third "turn and cough" check, all three doctors concur I have a enlarged prostate, but nothing to make them suspect it's cancerous. But considering the prostate biopsy I was told I should get last year (by a medical group I think was truly more interested in my money than my health) would have cost over a thousand dollars, and a couple men who have had it done said it "hurt like a motherfucker", I'm very glad my new doctor has told me I don't need to have it done now. Yippie kai yay...