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Stan with his crony Curt Cavanaugh (right) and a Benz.
A few months ago we wrote a mainstay about because everybody indispensable to keep adult with new technology. Here are a integrate of stories about my new practice with technology.
On Boxing Day, Best Buy advertised a slew of tech stuff, including a BlackBerry Tablet during $249.95 and shipping. Wow! But I’m not one to mount in line. Nosiree! I’m tech savvy and we go online to order.
I set adult a shopping routine by substantiating myself in a “waiting room.” At 6 pm, I’m already set to go for when a site goes live during 8 pm to order. When 8 pm comes, Visa label during a ready, we anxiously counterpart into a “time bar” below. After 15 minutes, I’m in and prepared to sequence a 32 GB tablet. Another 15 mins and I’m reviewing a sequence and all seems in order. Ready to go! Then, oops! The right side of my palm hits a space bar. You know what happens – a complement goes behind to block one. It’s now 8:35 pm and we lay sensitively seething over my miss of hand-eye co-ordination of late. About 10 mins later, I’m in to sequence again. But his time, a complement has defaulted to a before sequence and we am now looking during an sequence of TWO 32 GB tablets and one 16 GB tablet.
My brows microgroove and we courage my teeth and wish we can repair it. Sure enough, a site has a “review” icon. Now, one week later, we am a unapproachable owners of a most desired inscription that we worked so tough to get. With some harsh effort, my crony Shirley Porter helped me to “bridge” it to my aging Blackberry Bold and I’m now cool, as my immature charges during a bureau tell me.
Some of we might know that we have been restoring a 1973 Mercedes-Benz 460 SL hardtop/convertible for a past 5 years. Maybe we’ll be finished in another dual years, unless someone buys it.
The Benz and we have some rather dear memories (I consider I’m into it for about $20,000). we motionless to take it by a programmed automobile rinse during a Petro hire after retrieving it from my mechanic, who had winterized it. I’ve always taken it to a palm rinse though we had an additional automobile rinse ticket, so what a heck.
It was a small disconcerting as we entered to a rails, as we’d never finished this before. we slipped a sheet into a bar reader, though zero happened. It kept seeking me to re-enter. we did so successfully, solely for a fact a automobile was still in expostulate and we were moving forward. we became so perplexed that we was reaching for a window buttons on a side instead of a counsel. Water accompanied by rinse flooded a car, shower me in a bargain. Attendants came running, cheering instructions to me, interlude a rinse and handing me a hurl of paper towels to purify up. As I’m exiting, my mother is watchful for me in a other car. She sees soap froth galore and withholds her delight until we come out again from a second automobile wash, this time a cumulative one!
Ah, a vestiges of aging! This was not a gentle one. Why do they call it a Golden Age? It’s a forgetful and infrequently stumbling age. But nonetheless, it is rewarding still to be means to share some “intimate” sum and stories of your common REM writer.
Happy 2012! May all your dreams come loyal and might we all suffer good health and prosperity.
Stan Albert, broker/manager, ABR, ASA during Re/Max Premier in Vaughan, Ont. can be reached for conference during stanalb@rogers.com. Stan is now celebrating 40 years as an active real estate professional.
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