Tuesday was to be a Crash Day

Well it is Tuesday and I slept in until 8am, that is 2 ½ hours later than normal. I was going to have a lazy day today after 2 full 11 hour days getting to and from the show and doing the show itself. I had some goals, which I barely met. I first did some emails and puttering around and then decided to pick up my credit card that was forgotten last Friday. Well now that I am a seasoned Tube traveller, I actually got there in an hour verses the 2+ hours in the adventures of Friday. I thought I saw a women at Oval station that looked like Liz, and my immediate reaction was to duck, but I used reason and kept motoring. I picked up my credit card, put on my glasses and looked through the documentation for a pin number. No pin number, I said my goodbyes and left. While walking down the road, I realized my glasses were still on my face and I couldn’t find the case to put them in. So after a 5 minute delay of “I couldn’t have left them...,” I went back to fetch them.

My account charges me £60/hr which is fine if I only use her for 10 minutes but bookkeeping start up costs have been more than budgeted for. So a few months ago I looked for a UK bookkeeper on eLance.com and found a person that, so far, has fit the bill (pin intended). I decided I wanted to meet her. Looking at the map, it was 2.8 miles and seeing how anywhere you want to go takes an hour I decided to walk. I had two main roads to go down. Seeing how I buy a daily pass for any bus or subway, I had the bright idea to take the bus as far as it would take me down the road. This would save me some time and legs. So I saw a bus coming and waited. When it was close, I realized once again I was waiting on the wrong side of the road, so I snaked across the road (yes dear, I looked to the right first) and made it for the bus. I got on the bus only to witness it turning left at the next intersection. It stopped about a ¼ mile down the road and I figured I saved about 6 steps.

I finally stopped and met with Li and her brother for an hour and then left for back home. It was now 3pm and I had to meet someone at 4pm.


Now that I walked the route and saw the buses going all the way down the other road, I decided to give the bus another try to save time (and legs). I jumped on...but couldn’t find my ticket...and I was slightly embarrassed as he kicked me off. When I got home I finally found it in my top shirt pocket.

On my way home I found a couple of interesting signs. They call a road with 4 lanes a Dual Carriage Way.

I arrived a 4pm and was to meet Tony, my logistic company owner to meet him for the first time. He was fortunately about 15 minutes late which gave me time to check my email and do a few chores outside that I wanted to do to be able to get it off the fridge “to do” list.

I had a good visit with Tony and he offered me a beer or a coffee; I took the coffee. This was my first coffee in over a month. We talked about moving some of our product to Spain and about marketing more of Europe. I really like him and his organisation and am blessed to have them. They warehouse our products and shipped them out for us.

The rest of the evening was finishing the cleanup at the front and catching up on emails. I finally got to be at 11:30pm and set my alarm for 4:45am

Good Night