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Tom Gardner wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@tacks.com:

Using the same application for email and newsgroups is just plain crazy. Sooner or later you will end up 'oversharing' with the group . . .

If you don't mind, I'd like to interrupt a bit here and tell you that I once heard two or three ladies talking about chewing-up about a half pound of cabbage because of its painkilling effects. I think you should try it Tom. It works.

Sorry, posted by mistake.

Oh well, no big deal. One of my best methods for collecting old debts.

No Malcolm, I don't say that. Staying quiet about not getting business is EXACTLY what you DON'T want to do. Telling everyone about money problems is good.

Telling the lawyers and accountants that your in a rut and need ideas and to improve in business is good. Continue to tell as many as possible and one or two of them will help you dig out.

(if you don't make money, the lawyers and accountants don't, so its a you-scratch-their-back-they-scratch-yours deal)

I tried like hell to call you but didn't have your number anymore. The guy in Hamilton, Ont. was very nice about it, though. d8-)

We just sold to a company in Canada, very innovative transaction and some of the details are still in flux. I obviously want them to pay all the building expenses in a timely fashion as we did toll manufacturing for them for months. Canadians come from a COMPLETELY different business culture! But they, like most people I guess, don't respond well to legal speak so you accidentally see my tack...which seems to work. I imagine it will take time but I have retired from the industry and am very happy with the deal. I have been doing some consulting and I still maintain the full machine shop and have leased out most of the building for a positive cash flow. On to golf, fishing and teaching shooting!

Use my first name AT my old business name dot com

My business rule #3, do not do business with Canadians.

I somewhat wish you had told ne earlier! I just need a translator sometimes. And, they just live under a different set of stars. Not good or bad...just different values and priorities. I've learned a LOT!

Why not?? Except for possibly Quebec we are every bit as easy to deal with as Yanks and Southerners. Most are honest to a fault - of course. like with Yanks and Southerners there are some crooks in the mix..

And doing business across the border is not terribly onerous, and is actually easier for Americans dealing in Canada than Canadians attempting to deal in the USA.

And right now your Greenback buys 15% more up here.

Where in Canada is your buyer? And is he/she Canadian Canadian, or recent immigrant??

I used to think so too, until I had several bad experiences on ebay, people not paying and leaving bad feedback for no reason.

All kinds of that s*it goes on south of the border too - as well as sellers selling defective crap and not standing behind it.

Best of luck to you, Tawm. Will you continue to be a lesbian, or was that business-driven, sweetie?

Having been screwed BIGtime by folks 3 times now, I no longer do business with people who put the IXOYE fish on their business cards.

A well established older company and has been a trading partner for years. They had the best of three offers.

I'll ALWAYS be a lesbian!

I have a few things I want to patent so I'm working on prototypes and training the dogs to nap properly.

That's what all of us here at RCM wanted to hear!

Cool and HUH?, respectively. Oh, I get it. If they don't shut up, YOU can't nap properly. Please remember to keep active, or you'll be dead within a year. The death rate of recent retirees is staggering. I went to my first dermatologist appointment yesterday and, while he was freezing things off the old bod, he told me of the friend who retired last year and is already gone. Perfectly healthy when he retired, he lost something and was gone within a friggin' year! So, use it or lose it, sir.

Alls ya gots to do is move out into a clearing in the woods and build a new house - heated with wood . Add in a few chickens , a beehive , and a large garden and I guarantee you'll stay active . I didn't work this hard when I worked for a living !