Things began like any other day, with the kids catching the school bus and Mara going off to work. Luckily she took the Escalade. At the time, she obviously was unaware of what was going to happen, but the decision to take the Escalade is why she is still here today . When the Emergency Backup was completed, we received pictures of the damage and couldn’t believe our eyes . It was a gorgeous morning in Chicago, without a cloud in the sky so I didn’t mind taking the mini-coupe . My office is right down the road a little ways so I always take the mini-coupe . It seemed as if an instant after my thinking that it was a beautiful morning the winds started blowing and my car basically started shaking and veering all over the road . If I would have put the radio on, like I did every morning, I would have known about the tornado, as I found out later that the warnings were everywhere . But I had an audio book in. Mara had just gotten to town and the thing hit right in the center of downtown. It ripped down Main and over to fourth street. The tornado took off part of the Nieman Marcus building as well as the Trump Tower . Mara slammed on the brakes and ditched the Escalade. She ran into the old bank building, which is why she is alive today. It was about 10 days later when we got the Escalade back. What a mess.
I was really happy that Joe’s business was booming. It was doing so well in fact that he won an award for selling the most cars in Wisconsin in one year . The one downfall of winning such a great award as a car salesman is, how does one retain customers . We decided that we needed a computer system to organize all of the customers information, where we would know where they live, what they bought, and how long ago they bought it . The method we are using right now is outdated and probably horribly inaccurate, as it is all on paper and it is only what the customer purchased and what date they purchased it . As of lately, business has been so great that we don’t have much room left to keep these paper copies, all of the files and folders in the office and storage rooms are full ! Joe and the other salespeople have been racking their brains. What the most frustrating part of all of this is, is that we know what needs to be done, but everyone is offering to do it for an astronomical price, that we definitely cannot afford . One lazy afternoon we had a guy walk in with a briefcase, looking very professional . We all wondered what he was doing here because it was obvious he wasn’t in the store to buy a car, he eventually told us that he was there with a Data storage. He mapped everything out for us and even suggested a store that we could buy the software from, he was amazing with us and I don’t think we could have pulled any of it off without him ! Hopefully we impressed him enough with our skills that he will come to us when he needs a new car . Has anyone seen the coffee machine?

My friend is seriously obsessed with his music, he could not stop telling me all about it . He’s got over 30,000 artists and tunes on his computer. I’m lucky if I can download anything on mine, but I usually play compact discs anyway. I couldn’t believe Brian’s collection. He doesn’t have any particular taste in music, so his collection can be impressive to anyone with any taste in music . He loves every one of them, from the New Pornographers to Death Cab for Cutie and back. “This is the perfect Data storage!” He screamed, one can feel the excitement just emanating off of him when he listens to music .