telesouth1dotcom (10/19/05, 04:29:15 PM): Hi there Steve.....Did you see our check in yet dstisgwillis (10/19/05, 04:29:45 PM): Not yet... I will hit the PO again this afternoon. Mail is notoriously slow here in FL... telesouth1dotcom (10/19/05, 04:30:19 PM): Thats cuz the postman is at the tiki bar hunting for the best Margarita telesouth1dotcom (10/19/05, 04:30:30 PM): <---- used to live in Miami :-D dstisgwillis (10/19/05, 04:30:49 PM): Or, he is hiding under the bar because he saw Wilma on the news this morning... telesouth1dotcom (10/19/05, 04:31:13 PM): Jezzzus!!!!!!!!!!!! telesouth1dotcom (10/19/05, 04:31:23 PM): I am from New Orleans...born and raised dstisgwillis (10/19/05, 04:31:37 PM): Strongest storm on record in the Atlantic, _ever_... telesouth1dotcom (10/19/05, 04:31:49 PM): what happened to our nice little 90 mph wind storms telesouth1dotcom (10/19/05, 04:31:52 PM): they were fun dstisgwillis (10/19/05, 04:32:46 PM): I remember a small in living in Ocean Springs, MS, back in the 70s. But, last year we lived thru to majors (Frances and Jeanne), and this is the central east coast (near Canaveral), where is should be rare for us to be hit... telesouth1dotcom (10/19/05, 04:33:13 PM): My first office was set in Ocean Springs telesouth1dotcom (10/19/05, 04:33:19 PM): what a cool little town dstisgwillis (10/19/05, 04:33:28 PM): Consider, Frances last year, we had hurricane force wind over us for 38 hours while that beast rolled through... dstisgwillis (10/19/05, 04:33:58 PM): I lived there only one year when I was 4, but we lived on a golf course and I played every day. I do miss it... telesouth1dotcom (10/19/05, 04:34:40 PM): Yes I remember that golf course telesouth1dotcom (10/19/05, 04:34:56 PM): Its a really nice little place. I may go there this weekend to view the situation telesouth1dotcom (10/19/05, 04:35:05 PM): our family lost a condo in Biloxi this time dstisgwillis (10/19/05, 04:35:07 PM): We lived on the 10th hole, so I played the back nine in the swamps every day. telesouth1dotcom (10/19/05, 04:35:13 PM): part of why I was so bitchy this weekend dstisgwillis (10/19/05, 04:35:52 PM): If you visit, eat some soft shell crabs. No better place than the MS Gulf Coast for the best soft shell crabs in the world... telesouth1dotcom (10/19/05, 04:36:06 PM): I know.....I lived there for three years telesouth1dotcom (10/19/05, 04:36:10 PM): Loved the food telesouth1dotcom (10/19/05, 04:36:17 PM): I miss it dstisgwillis (10/19/05, 04:36:39 PM): Restaurant there: Auntie Velma's or something like that. Can't remember the name. I heard it survived Katrina and Rita though... telesouth1dotcom (10/19/05, 04:37:08 PM): Aunt Jennys telesouth1dotcom (10/19/05, 04:37:22 PM): Great all you can eat catfish on Sundays dstisgwillis (10/19/05, 04:37:58 PM): Jennys, yes that was it... Gracias! telesouth1dotcom (10/19/05, 04:38:39 PM): I am sorry about my attitude this weekend........was going thru a heart wrencher with a friend down there telesouth1dotcom (10/19/05, 04:38:44 PM): so I was pretty pissy with you dstisgwillis (10/19/05, 04:38:58 PM): No worries... We _all_ have bad ones. dstisgwillis (10/19/05, 04:39:13 PM): Lots of pressure in our industry, obviously... telesouth1dotcom (10/19/05, 04:39:43 PM): Yes....... To top it off I was dealing with a possible buy out deal going bad on me telesouth1dotcom (10/19/05, 04:39:53 PM): due to owner dragging his feet dstisgwillis (10/19/05, 04:41:49 PM): More often than not they fail than succeed... It is sometimes just the nature of the complexity of such a deal... telesouth1dotcom (10/19/05, 04:42:49 PM): I have had several fail after we took them on and found unexpected issues hidden telesouth1dotcom (10/19/05, 04:45:40 PM): Next time we take on another ISP we will keep the owner on as an employee for at least six months telesouth1dotcom (10/19/05, 04:45:51 PM): that way we have him in with a stake in the success dstisgwillis (10/19/05, 04:46:29 PM): That, or first option on agreed consulting rate, on site only... telesouth1dotcom (10/19/05, 04:47:40 PM): naaaaa........He / she stays on the ship the whole six months. If it sinks then they sink too dstisgwillis (10/19/05, 04:48:58 PM): That is what insurance is for... Split the insurance cost with the seller, a "compromise" when they don't want to stay on and have a stake during the transition... dstisgwillis (10/19/05, 04:49:26 PM): Base problem: they will _never_ care enough after the sale, no matter what... telesouth1dotcom (10/19/05, 04:50:23 PM): They will care due to on going payments. I ALWAYS owner finance these things telesouth1dotcom (10/19/05, 04:50:49 PM): The only thing we are out is our deposit and that is usually made up in the first few months of ops dstisgwillis (10/19/05, 04:52:04 PM): That works... dstisgwillis (10/19/05, 04:52:39 PM): Have fun up there, and be careful if you hit Biloxi this weekend. telesouth1dotcom (10/19/05, 04:52:49 PM): okay telesouth1dotcom (10/19/05, 04:52:53 PM): cheers dstisgwillis (10/19/05, 04:53:02 PM): Cheers!