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Hi everyone. Just lett'n ya all know that we're back from Orlando 8(

OK, I got several pics up. About 33 and there are more I'm just not posting them. Click on the pics above and it will take you to my photo album or video.

It will be set up as a slideshow. You can stop it manually and just click through on your own if you wish so you can take your time and absorb the pics 8p Simply click on the Pause || button until it displays the Play arrow |> , then click the forward arrow |>|> and click through at your own pace.

From there just click on the "Vacation" link on the left and scroll through. You can look at the smaller pics which will load faster and are a bit crisper OR you can goto full screen view. The pic take about 3 secs to load and arn't as crisp, but I think it's very good quality. You'll see the next page loading up in the lower left as a value of percentages.


brb with a post in a day or 2.

-Bob

SOOoo OUTTA HERE , Yo !

Full Tank 'O Gas_________[./] Check
6 pairs of Clothing_______[./] Check
Money in da bank ________[./] Check
Maps ________________[./] Check
Cameras & Charged Batts _[./] Check
Take out trash __________[./] Check

Good Time at Universal !_[./] CHECK

Soooo OTTA HERE _____[./] CHECK

New Hair and Glasses

Well I don't really have much to say right now. We have a few more days till we head to Orlando. We also both got new glasses. Kind of bad timing with the trip coming up among everything else, however if we didn't buy them now I am not sure we ever would. Our glasses cost us $715. That is a hard pill to swallow. Believe it or not that is more the 1/2 off to and doesn't include the doctor visit. so w/out my insurance we would have spent about $1600. Actually we would have spent anything 8p. We both got very nice new glasses. Veronique, always one for the best of taste, seemed to naturally pick out one of the most expensive pair of glasses. She was in conflict to pay so much, but I told her to get what you feel happy with b/c they will be on your face and apart of your life for the next 2 years..or so. This is her 1st pair of glasses. WE also both got the full (or should I say FOOL) proofed lenses.. You know, scratch proof, glare proof, transitions, blah, blah , yada yada.

Veronique recently changed har hair style whadda ya think ...
(Clicking on the pic pulls us a Larger Photo. It probably wont fit completly on your screen 8p)

BEFORE ..



AFTER ..



Us Together at The Cleveldar (South Beach) BEFORE:



Us at Finnegans Way (South Beach) AFTER :



-Till Later
-Bob

ps. The pics don't seem to come up as fast or as well in IExploer as they do in FireFox

One Week

Till we head to Universal Theme Parks !!

YaaaaaY ...

Numbers

We went the Cheesecake Factory at Cocowalk (scroll down to the pic at the bottom) where we met a financial volenteer and his wife that helps with the SBA and SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives. Although he is not retired, he owns a financial business.

He gave us alot of valuable information. There are several changes that I need to adjust. Some items I didn't think of and others that need more real life percentages. For example merchant charges which I was told where at 1.5%, but according to his wife who owns a high end retail store in Boca Raton informed me that there are also fees attached to those merchant charges that I was told of so in reality the percentages are more like 3%-5%. I have to adjust my rent, utilites yada, yada ...

He also thinks that my gross sales is to high. I am not convinced. Gaming is a 10 billion dollar a year market and going up. The month of March showed an industry increase of 32% .. that's an increase of $2.5 BILLION in ONE Month !! I have my figure calculated at about 20 units per hour. Which seems on target, actually under target. The assumption is that one person will buy one game at a time. But I have witnessed persons buying 2-3 games at a time, or games + accessories and related gaming materials. These are the factors that are not weighed in and to which I must make clear in my figures. Never-the-less I am going to refigure my model to 7 sku's per hour. It will look more in line with what loaning institutions may expect and if I need advance working capital b/c the demand supersedes my cash flow then I can always seek additional working capital, which will be easier to acquire with an already established business showing high demand.

There are other changes that I need to make dealing with employee's

I have also started on the website. I have spent literally days on it, but I think I've finally started to make some headway. I still have MUCH work to do on it and I hope to have a beta version up in a week. That's a lot of work, so if I do manage to get something up it will not be completed. Maybe I should say I'll try to get a "Closed Alpha" test site up by then 8p

-Till later
Bob

CDK

Veronique and I talked with Wesley, owner of CDK Mortgage located at the shops at the bottom of Portofino Tower , which is at the southern most point of South Beach. The inlet also leads to the port of Miami and the
South Beach Marina.
IN addition 2 more towers will be going up in the area surronding Portofino and the office :

Continuum
and
Apogee

Veronique met Wesley at Pearl and we had a brief conversation with him when we went out to a birthday party for the head chef of Pearl and Nikki Beach. He asked us to stop by and we finally got around to it. He is willing to take us out to events and parties with realtors and other professionals and noteworthy persons. He even has a company yacht and he seems genuinely interested in helping us succeed. This is Wesley’s 2nd company that he has started and has his main branch in Chicago. I believe that he can be very helpful not only with brokerage, but also in meeting the right people, investors and assisting in the start-up activities and funding of the business that I want to start. We touched on it briefly at our meeting yesterday.

I have been working on the website for my business and it is coming along well, but there is much work to do on it. I have got in contact with a SBA S.C.O.R.E. accountant volunteer to help me tweak the financials.

So hopefully events will start going our way.

Nikki Magazine

Veronique asked me to post this picture. It is supposed to be shown in an upcoming issue of Nikki Style Magazine.

Nothing new to say atm. Just passing some time at "work". I've been working on the financials and I am trying to sent an appoitment with an SBA accounting rep. I hope to have submittable to a lender with in the next 4 months.

Sometime soon Veronique and I are hoping to visit with a developer who is building one of the many (and I mean MANY) condos going up down here in FL to get a job. A good paying, professional job. We are hoping to meet with him at lunch with a associate that she meet at her job at Pearl. I hope something opens up for at least one of us, we really deserve a break.

And we found an exciting apartment complex with a Amazing location, although the neighborhood is a bit ... underpar. The apts are huge with 2 bedrooms just over 1700 sqft, costing $1500 mthly for the mid to higher floors with the views. That is Really good for this area. There is also a One bdrm conversion, meaning we can make the extra space into another bdrm/den that goes for $1275 on the higher floors with 1500 sqft of space. They have 8 foot ceilings and windows that look over the bay towards the beach and the city lights of Brickell ave, plus huge terraces to sit on. All units of Jacuzzi tubs and washer/dryer IN the unit /Drool. Unfortunatly ,at this time all units are sold out and there is a waiting list. We are looking at other places, but it is hard to find anything comparable. Other decent apts of this size and pricing are about 20-30 minutes west or north. We are months away from moving anywhere else, but are keeping our eyes open now to be put on any lists such as with Hamilton.

Hamilton on the Bay

-until next time, when I might have something to say 8p
Bob