Heading to Chicago today, and used my iPod on the way to the airport to catch up on the Kojo Mnamdi (whoa on spelling – that can’t be right!?)’ Tech Tuesday with the Computer Guys podcast. A caller asked whether he should update his OS (caller was a PC user) to Vista or just start [...]

Here’s what I am hoping my life will look like over the next three to five years, and no, none of this is in my biz plan (yet). Work really hard for most of the year, then take a well-publicized long vacation, say 1 – 3 months. Last winter I took a month off (as [...]

Just because you have a thought does not mean you must commemorate it with a blog entry. To qualify for what amounts to world-wide distribution, I think one’s remarks ought to have at least some lasting value. So, here am I after a month of no posts pondering, what exactly happened this month? At the [...]

Wow! Has it really been more than two months since I made an entry here?? One of the purported benefits of being a Virtual Assistant is that you can travel anywhere and remain in touch with clients and even work while away from the office. I’ve been on the road A LOT these last two [...]

At last. The best month is here! We live about 2 hours from Phoenix. Our son plays all his sports in a league that’s all Phoenix schools except for us. This means lots of time on the road, living the sporting spectator life. Like other parents, we try to get to as many of the [...]

I returned to work on Monday, January 23. Though I won’t know for awhile how this really worked out for clients (i.e.,whether or not I lost any), I know it was a good idea for me to be closed for a month. I got a lot of questions from people wondering what I was doing, [...]

Puerto Peñasco. No one else on the beach for several miles. Friend Sue F. and I explored the estuary by kayak yesterday (see Sue kayaking at right) and then it took us about two hours to make it back to a point that would have taken 10 minutes on foot. Lesson learned, today we headed [...]

I’m just back from a short vacation weekend and thinking about end-of-the-year business tasks. One of those tasks is Client Satisfaction. You can call it Customer Appreciation, or Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Referral Incentive Programs, Thank You Programs, Client Retention Program or just keep it simple and think of it as how to have happy [...]

Yesterday we visited San Juan Island, hoping to see the Orcas off Lime Kiln State Park (that’s where the lighthouse at right is). We got into Friday Harbor at about 11:30am and gave a young man named Forrest a lift to Friday Harbor High School, where he was going to have a baseball game later [...]

Yesterday, we explored the west side of Orcas Island. Then last night, I awoke at midnight to a full moon (well, just past full) illuminating East Sound. That sight kept me awake and watchful for two hours in the middle of the night. At left is the view from our back door – although it [...]