Happy Birthday To Me (the day of)
This is the result of us trying to take the existing name off the boat last weekend. Between Sunday and Monday I called no less than 5 marine companies who claim things from “boat naming” to “fiberglass repair” and beyond. Today is Thursday, and one person called back this morning - finally.Unfortunately he told me “I don’t really do that stuff because you never know if it’s going to take 1 hour or 2 days.” He was nice, and honest about it. It continues to confuse me how so many small business companies remark about the economy downturn resulting in slow or no business, yet here I am ready and willing to hand anybody whatever amount of money they want for a seemingly simple task to be done, and nobody is even calling me back. Throughout various things recently, it’s actually been difficult to get skilled, employed people to do what they want to get paid to do. That’s all I’ll say about that.
So, with limited internet search results to the matter, I walked into the office of my marina and grabbed a business card off of the counter. Made a call, left a message, received a call back within 1 hour and although there was a slight language barrier, I think somebody is coming by later today or tomorrow at 9am to look at the situation. I have high hopes that this hard-working, phone-call-returning person can help me out, otherwise I’m giving up and spray-painting over entire back end and taping the new name to it. Kidding.
Since I was already at my boat during my lunch break, making that phone call, I decided to chill out for a few minutes. Time to drink an ice cold beer and respond to facebook comments - which have been awesome and hugely reaffirming that even people I haven’t seen or spoken to in so many years care enough to still go out of their way to wish me a happy birthday. I am sincerely grateful for each comment from family and friends of all kinds, they actually all mean something to me.
Just as quickly as my beer was drank, a random thick fog rolled in so I went back to work. I took tomorrow off of work to make a four-day weekend (thanks to the holiday Monday) that I’m very much looking forward to. My mom is visiting, the weather should be pretty good, and we’re definitely going sailing… even with my transom looking like it does right now.