inside chon

planes are disgusting

Last Friday I took a flight to West Palm Beach to visit a customer. My flight was of course delayed coming home, and once I did get in the air it was incredibly bumpy. I take planes quite a bit so I can handle the flying part fine, but one thing that continues to bother me is how disgusting the planes are.

Am I the only one who looks in the cracks between where the seats are bolted down? What is the gunk that lives in that spot? Does anyone really use the pillows that have been stored in the overhead bin? On the way home from Puerto Rico someone puked in the barf bag and left it in the seat behind me.

Shady computer repair

Being in the technology consulting business I've pretty much heard it all : 'the last guy that was here charged an arm and a leg' or 'he was here for 4 hours, put his arms in the air and said he couldn't fix the problem billed me and left'. This story in Orlando Sentinel is probably the best one yet though.

The tech takes the machine, she never hears from him again and the company offers her a discount for her next service call! Not as good as the Geek Squad guy filming the lady taking a shower but still pretty damn good!

Link: That's not just geeky -- it's plain wrong -- OrlandoSentinel.com.

Updating

I used to blog all the time, but for whatever reason I stopped some time ago. Fast forward to the present and I've paid for a year of Typepad and posted twice. I'm going to start making an effort to post at least once a week here to update people on my life - its good to talk to yourself.

I got into a car accident on Monday after someone ran a red light and hit the driver side of my new Camry. It sucks but I do have to say that out of this whole thing I have learned what a great company Progressive is to deal with. From the start it has been nothing short of the white glove treatment. They towed the car, got an estimate, and gave me a rental car right then and there. I haven't had to do anything (and from what I understand won't have to do anything) until I pickup my repaired car on Monday.

Business has been going good lately. I've hired a new employee to take on most of the residential work while I focus on the commercial business. This has been my biggest year yet in terms of business, and it's only getting bigger. Now if I can just find time to launch some of these web projects and get some of that passive income coming in.