How to get me to buy something from you – Be recommended by the person I’m buying a gift for in the first place.

How to get me to buy something from you twice – Get my order to me very quickly, have good product, and reasonable prices.

How to make me a lifelong customer – Give me a call after my second order, even through it’s your late afternoon/early evening, advising me that my chosen shipping method might not get my order to me by Christmas, then eat a chunk of the upgraded shipping so that this isn’t a problem.

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How to get me to stop donating to your charity – Send me, in the space of 30 minutes, two voicemails, three phone calls, and two texts, all with the same verbage about why you need money from me.

I like a nice reminder every so often, but using the spam firehose is not conducive to getting me to come across with a credit card.

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Well, my long vacation is probably officially over. I started onboarding at a new job on Monday. So far, so good.

It’s a semi-longterm contract, so I can’t totally take my eyes off finding something permanent. However, if it works out, it’ll be a good fit for quite some time.

Either way, my plans to retire as a reprobate have to be put on hold, at least for now.

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We woke up to find that the 2 to 4 inches of snow we were promised turned out to be 4 to 6 inches.

The puppy thought was just the most awesomest thing ever, and demonstrated this by running laps around the back yard for 30 to 45 minutes at a time throughout the day.

She’s currently laying on my office floor, snoring loudly. I guess she’s just all tuckered out.

The older dogs were not quite that excited. Sophie, Princess of Planet Dachshund, was downright unimpressed.

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Note to self – When shopping for a new desk to go with your new job, take measurements of your office and take the tape measure to the furniture store.

In other news, I’m going to be rearranging my office a bit. The new desk is L shaped, and the L juts out about seven feet. Nice and cozy, but definitely creates choke points in the middle of the room.