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Its finally over!  The doors are closed to the public.  The sign on the front of the building has been taken down and we’re well into stripping the building down to the bare cinder block walls.  We’re just a few days worth of shipping away store fixtures and I’ll never have to stop in utah county again!

I got a good sense of what I’m in for at my new store the other day and I’m positive its going to be more work and a worse job than what I have had before.  Still I guess I should be happy.  For one, I still have a job and among a recession thats a good thing.  Another is that the worse the job looks the more I’ll shine when I do it well.  (Just a chipper way of saying I’ll have to work my ass off.)

A couple of weeks ago I promised I’d put up a photo of the pavers I bought.  I finally managed to get the palm hotsync software re-installed so I can get the photos off my phone onto the computer.  (I hate cell phones, but I love the palm treo 650…)  This little beast does everything I need for an organizer and it has the phone built in for emergencies.  I leave the phone turned off, but its nice to know I have it in a real emergency.  So far its replaced my watch, my alarm clock, it works as a portable mp3 player should I need one, and a portable video player.  Most cell phones do all that now a days, but this beast has done it for me for going on three full years now.

My 700 or so new Lodgestone Pavers

Anyway, I don’t have a whole heck of a lot going on this week.  Its my fifth or sixth straight week of working 20+ hours of overtime.  It’s great for the paychecks, but really makes it hard to talk about anything but what I worked on last week for the blog…

I did make a really stupid decision yesterday that has bugged me most of the day today.  As the final teardown of the store commences we find ourselves throwing out things that we couldn’t readily find a buyer for.  One such thing is a pair of Network Server Cabinets that held the stores datacenter computers.  The servers go back to our network IT department, but the cabinet was to be disposed of.  Once we were done selling things it turned up that our cabinets were unsold and had nowhere to go.  I happen to know the store paid between $3000 and $4000 dollars for these two cabinets about two and a half years ago.

My immediate thought was not to let them throw away these cabinets, but rather to claim them and sell them myself on ebay.  So thats what I decided to do.  I loaded these very expensive monster cabinets onto my truck and dragged them home.  Here’s where the stupidity comes in though.  I don’t have a place to store them until I sell them.  I looked on ebay and these cabinets should sell at $500 used without a problem, but it might take a month or two to get them sold.   I’d also need a way to ship them freight.  (not going to happen)  So after a days debate and trying to figure out if I could convert them to pantry storage or a very obscure dvd cabinet I decided there’s just no way I can use or store them.  The final result is that I did what my store would have done.  I called a scrap metal guy and told him to come get em.  They won’t be an eyesore in my driveway by tomorrow.

I suppose it wasn’t as bad a decision bringing them home as I make it out to be.  Still I pride myself on not doing things like that.  Just the thought of making a few hundred bucks by doing an easy cary it home and ebay it move seemed like a good idea.  If I had a garage it might have been.  Oh well, done is done.  On to the final days of cleaning out the building and I’m on to a new chapter in my life.