Reason for Being

Monday got off to a heat advisory start. It would be very toasty all week, with advisories through Wednesday.

We are starting to talk about rental season stuff at work, including how to rearrange the "showroom" to accommodate both rental instruments and the influx of step-up/used instruments we expect to get. Anything new is exciting to me.

After work on Monday I was supposed to practice and go to the gym, but I got off to a late start practicing and was interrupted by a customer partway through, so called it quits in frustration. To be honest, it's difficult to practice right now. Rehashing the same old scales and etudes is just no fun after a while. Circus music is more engaging and more of a workout, but style-wise isn't really relevant to anything as far as I know. It's just hard to be motivated when there's nothing on the horizon, or nothing specific to work toward.

En route to the gym I realized I'd forgotten to hit Walmart in the morning for tupperware and cheap workout headphones, so thought I'd run over there quick and grab these before exercising. But of course, in the evening everyone is at Walmart, and checking out took much longer than expected. Exasperated, I gave up yet again. I went to the Asian grocery and looked around for a bit, then went home and ate a bunch of cookies. Whatever, don't judge. All my clothes still fit, m'kay.

On Tuesday, Dirk (education rep) came in and did most of the rearranging in our showroom. Together he and Matt and I lifted the heavy service desk and pulled it forward, then Dirk got to work fixing up some of the slatwall that had come loose from the wall through the years. Once that was done, it was safe to move some instruments around. Matt also gave me a bunch of instruments to be put up and listed, none of which I got to do because there were other things that needed attention.

On Wednesday I got to meet the owner of BAC, Greg. Just to keep things straight, Mike Corrigan is the founder, and Greg is the owner. The company right now is sort of split between all of its parts: the custom instruments/repairs/factory, the sales/rental/repairs store, and the rentals/Rent My Instrument .com. We talked a bit about how we might bring all of those facets together, then Greg and Matt went to lunch.

On Thursday Matt was only in the store for a little bit, as he had to go to the factory to help with repairs and such. Kristy and I got a lot done, but I would have liked to have put more instruments up for sale. That can be a part of next week.

On Friday, Charles (Web Designer, Director of Sales) called looking for his pen, which had mysteriously gone missing. Logically, it had to be at the retail store, 45 minutes away from the factory. There ya go Charles, I mentioned you in my blog! How's that for free marketing! ;) Lol. Seriously though, Charles is the person I call most often when I have questions about our POS and other functions that I've not been trained in yet am expected to know. He's a cool dude. Thank you as always, Charles :)

This week turned out to be a wash practice- and gym-wise. It seemed like every time I wanted to practice, there was some interruption, whether it was a customer who thought we were open until 6, or a phonecall, or an unexpected charge on my bill (I'm looking at you, Laclede Gas/Missouri Gas Energy). I went to the gym only once all week, and though I had good intentions for the rest of the week, I was just not feeling anything this week at all. Zero motivation.

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