Sunday, November 26, 2006

Back To Work

Back to work tomorrow. I have lots of invoices to process and a fair amount of orders to place. I need to get a final lot of cards in for the merged company and need to look @ tax season/year end ordering. This post is not exactly going to make people die of over excitement.

I had a nice long relaxing holiday weekend and now head back eager to serve the man until late Dec.

Saturday, November 25, 2006

My Mr. T Encounter

In the excitement of Thanksgiving (as I call it Mr. T. giving)I forgot to post the time I saw Mr. T. in person. It was around 1990-1991, summer. I was in downtown Chicago by the federal plaza and I saw ahead of me as I was walking a red Rolls Royce convertible with the Il. plates of "Mr.T" I thought "what dork would have that for a plate" and I noticed the driver had a mandinka and was African American. I got to the corner and looked to the street on the right and noticed it was the Great T. himself. He smiled and we waved @each other. Then other people saw him and started getting excited. He was downtown because the previous person who had his plates accumulated tickets and his car got the Denver boot.
I'll have to post some other celebrity encounters that I have had.

Friday, November 24, 2006

Transition Update #4

All stationery items are in. This was completed Tuesday 11/21. I am waiting on 1 lot of cards and then I can tackle the staff below Partner.
I will still have to have mailing envelopes sizes 9x12, 10x13 and 10x15 produced, I will do that in the near future.

Thursday, November 23, 2006

Happy Mr. T giving!



The numerous professionals here @The Purchasing Blog and Mr. T himself wish all a Happy Thanksgiving.

Monday, November 20, 2006

PS III & Hooters

My mother warned me about women who actually like going to Hooters for the food. This idiot is 22 months pregnant & waited several days outside in the cold for a Play Station III that she is going to sell apparently. Her baby's dad likes to play games. I know they both are not entertainment lawyers or some other career minded vocation.
After she got one, she went to celebrate @Hooters for the wings, and I don't mean Paul McCartney's group. I can't believe any adult has that much time on their hands to do something that stupid. Just like Ronnie "Woo Woo" Wickers who does not work because he might miss a Cubs home game.

Sunday, November 19, 2006

Raucous Turkey Raffle

We went to Fish Fry @the Geneva Legion Hall on Friday night and they had the 1st night of 2 Turkey Raffles. My daughter spun the wheel twice and we won a turkey and an airplane model. It helped that several people including the MC bought tickets to try to see her win.

Exciting times. I wonder if Donald Trump or Diddy do things like this or do they pay people to attend things like this for them?

Saturday, November 18, 2006

Tranisition Update #3

My mailing lables, #10 stationery, #10 window, #9 Business Reply & #10 Business Reply envelopes are in. Now all I am waiting for is the 1st page. I expect that
shortly.

Sunday, November 12, 2006

Transition Update 2

My new #10 stationery & window envelopes are shipped and should be in Monday/Tuesday. My first page is in production, I expect end of the week. I have another vendor working on this product, I hope to see by Friday. I also have this vendor doing #9 & #10 Business Reply Envs, I hope to see this along with invoices by Friday as well.

The new company business cards for the Partners are all ordered and have already started to come in. I expect all cards in by Friday. Then we will look @ordering cards and possibly note pads to staff below Partner.

I am using Mobile DB to track the new company cards as well as notepads for the original company on my Palm TX & TE. I am considering buying a fuller featured DB like Smart List to Go to synch W/Access. I need to think of how I would use.

I also order toner for our printers and we have 12-13 Tax Return printers located on 4 floors. I modified an Excel sheet, synched w/Docs to Go to tally up how many LJ 8100, LJ4250 toners to order and how many spent toners to be picked up for recycling.

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Got My Vote On

I got up a half hour earlier than usual and voted. I was only gone from the house about 10 minutes. I am glad the election is over. I commute to downtown Chicago and have been hounded by the politicos for the past week. On Monday Judy Baar Topinka (JBT to me) was standing by my train and I shook her hand in front of numerous TV and newspaper cameras.

I used the new e-voting machines today. In Kane Co.(IL) they use a scroll wheel which highlights your choice and then when that choise is highlighted, you press a button like "Enter". Pretty easy. I can see how some technology challenged folks could have some trouble.

Monday, November 06, 2006

Transition Update

I began ordering business cards for the new company and submitted 1st page stationery samples to our print vendor. I input the new cards into my Purchasing d/b and for kicks used Mobile DB so I can have a version on my Palm. I may use it to keep track of passwords and some inventory issues.

Sunday, November 05, 2006

What I am listening to

I picked up the new Beck CD, Information So far I like it, I need another or 2 before I decide how much. I recorded an Austin City Limits featuring Sujan Stevens and Calexico that I am looking forward to seeing. Sufjan Steven's CD,
Come On Feel The Illinoise is a nice effort.

Saturday, November 04, 2006

Busy week

I have a busy week ahead @the office. One of the firms I am associated with has been merged and that means stationery and business cards to be ordered. It pretty much will occupy my time this week. To take care of the business cards, I am converting the data from one firm in an Access d/b and exported it to Excel. Here I'll print it out and check off vs a list I have of people who will need cards. Then comes the long ordering process. Lots of data entry. As that is completed over a couple of days, I will export the Excel sheet to a new section of my Purchasing Database, also in Access. This d/b is on our network (the other one was not) and we also order memo pads and have a 2nd firm that has cards so I can integrate all this info into one d/b.

I have to get 1st page stationery, 9x12, 10x13, 10x5 mailers, lables and business reply envelopes ordered.

Thursday, November 02, 2006

On Message!

Finally an on topic post. When there is a need/desire to use a Minority Business Enterprise( MBE) vendor, the web is an excellent source for information. I use the City Of Chicago's site.
Using an MBE/WBE (Women owned Business Enterprise)can be a requirement to do govermental business as well as an effort to fulfill a firm's social responsibility goals.

Future on message topics will address how to use databases in the purchasing process,
as well as using web 2.0.