Seems like it's been forever.

I've been working with two other men, both Albanians, to set up and run a tile installation business--Millennium Tile. History is that I was at Starbucks one day about a 1-1/2 yrs. ago and noticed them sitting at another table. Since I was wearing my official Patterson shirt, they approached me and asked for work. We had a few little jobs, so I gave them a chance. After a few months, they came to me with the proposal that I act as CEO for their business, which at that time was disappearing due to lack of work. Since then we have been slowly building to the point of bidding commercial projects, the last of which was over $61,000.00 just for the tile work. Unfortunately, we haven't landed any commercial contracts, but there is some residential work to fill in.

Needless to say, I haven't had a lot of spare time lately. These commercial jobs have bid deadlines which usually fall within two to three weeks from the time I find out about them, so we have to scramble. Not quite sure where all this is going to lead, but hopefully I can parlay this into some "moving money" and, with communications the way they are today, still be able to work the business from Montana. (By the way, Genti and Columbo are expert tile mechanics, so I won't have to lay any unless I want to.)

We're still on for Montana. Cindy has made it clear that she's ready to leave Florida and, as long as she is working and holding her own, I might actually reach the goal of $10,000.00 to move with. It's feasible, but I will have to work a lot of Saturdays to make it.

Any road, I am counting down the days until next Friday morning when I fly out of Jax and head to Rochester. Looking forward to seeing everyone there. I can almost smell the steaks grillin'.

P.S. The staples came out of the head recently. Looks like everything is healing fine. Time will tell if it knocked any sense into me.