Something going ‘round these days - we only had 17 kids at Sam’s game (Generals 27 - 0 over Marsh Creek!) and we lost one player due to the virus during the game. Kate, shown here, looks like she might be coming down with something pretty serious too!

So we’re in need of a new copier, and a printer / fax, at work. We decided to redeploy some assets, and combine the copier and printer into a single / larger / more bells & whistles machine. We came up with our requirements, put put our feelers out and began interviewing sales people.

First, let me say that I can’t believe we have to talk to sales people to get a copier - it’s nothing more then a high priced multifunctioned printer. Why can’t I just go to Staples and see all the models in my price range? That being (obviously) out of the question, why can’t I go somewhere online to see comparisons of all the models and get pricing information? It makes no sense to me, that in this day and age there are still copier sales people and that their sales information is so secret.

Second, if I have to deal with sales people (and it appears that I do) is it too much to expect that they know something about their products? If I tell them on their prequal call that I must be able to print with CUPS should they still be unsure if the machine is Linux compatible when they arrive to sell to me? Maybe CUPS is too much for the average salesperson to know about, but what about FAXing? Surely they should know about that, and I shouldn’t have to point things out to them in their brochures - should I?

It’s been a week, we’ve seen a half dozen sales people and none of them knew half of what they should have about the machines they were trying to sell to us. Worse then that, none of them knew how to sell. Tomorrow we see the machine that the State of Utah picked, and that we pre-picked. Hopefully the guy can sell…

After a fun filled day of tubing, swimming, and just relaxing, we headed to the best crab place at the beach - Bahama Mama’s to get ourselves a feast of crabs

I spent the better part of today pouring over Calacatta Gold marble from Italy. All in an effort to find (I thought) the whitest bathroom tiles we could get for the cottage. I guess the joke is on me though - 270 sf (540 hand picked tiles), and we were matching them up against the wrong sample!

I questioned the newest Bridgewater Pottery mug when it arrived at the store a few weeks back, but the more I think about it the more I've come to terms with it. I have no problem drinking the same volume of Diet Coke, so who am I to question someone who wants to drink that much coffee?!

I'm beginning to question the Free Mac Mini again. If I hadn't actually seen Jon's Mac Mini arrive I'd discount the entire thing. I have lots of referals, but not many that have completed offers, so I'm lead to believe anyways. So who knows, while it is definetelly pyramidesque, perhaps it is also a Ponzi...