Awake and spinning...

Have you ever fallen asleep on the couch? 10 years ago I would have just woken up and went to bed and been fine the next morning. This happened to me last night. My girlfriend got home from work and I was sitting/laying on on couch. I thought I was comfortable but obviously I was not. I awoke this morning to a nasty headache and awful neck pain. It's amazing how resillient our bodies are at a young age and how not-so-resllient they become.

I have also been twittering lately. Twittering? What is that? It's another one of those Social Networking, or Web 2.0, type sites/devices. It was created by a guy named Evan Williams. I read about this service in Inc Magazine last month and I had to check it out. This guy takes practical things and makes them varitable necessities. Evan is also the creator of Blogger which, I believe, sold for $30m. This program is totally web based and allows peolpe to communicate via a large amount of user supported and created applications and, most importantly, via SMS messages. I can see the usefulness and overall practicality of a service like this and so do hundreds of thousands of others. Twitter's job is to answer the ever present question, "So, what are you doing?" People can sign up and "follow" other users and their updates are delivered via SMS right to their phone. Have you ever tried to coordinate by phone what you're doing with a group of friends? How much time does that take? If you're me and my friends, too damn long. Deciding dinner can take 30 minutes. All one person would have to do is get it started with, "Home from work, what are we doing for dinner?" and all of their followers would receive that message. From there they could post responses and all members would receive them. Very cool stuff. I think it's a pretty neat part of the whole Web 2.0 concept and I think I'll be sticking with it. See me here: http://www.twitter.com/mrwebguy or my workplace at http://www.twitter.com/daytonalagoon.

More later,
Joe

Home from work and first Blogger post...

It's been an interesting week at work. Business is up, we're making money and things are good. We're coming off of Spring Break here in Daytona Beach and now we're in the middle of BCR (Black College Reunion). It was an event that had over 100,000 people in the past and now scrapes by on about 10,000-15,000 people tops. The city essentially started denying event permits to, I guess, control some of the rediculousness that was going on.

I'm not a person who throws around the term "racist" but it sounds it to me. It's really pretty uneventful but whatever.

The waterpark is off to a great start this year and I'm l00king forward to the summer. It's not every year that you can say that. This year is definitely an exception. I'm projecting a 21-24% across the board increase in sales and about an 8% reduction in operating costs. I thought the coinage was going to come from a major reorganization of how we're staffing the facility, but I don't think that's the total answer. I think if we pay more attention to our general operating supplies costs and closely watch how we're spending the R&M (Repairs and Maintenance) costs we'll do just fine. Food cost is another area of concern and I think Sysco is screwing me -- I'll handle them accordingly in another month or so at the food show. I'm actively shopping 2 other purveyors to see how bad Sysco is benind me over. I'm thinking Sysco will be in-line by May 1 or we'll cut WAY back on our ordering from them and transfer that business elsewhere. We'll see what they think about that. I made them a promise last year that if they screwed me, and I caught them on it, they'd be sorry they did. Stand-by for more on that front.

The weather is starting to turn bad so I should probably get off of the computer.

More later,
Joe