All the reasons why

OK, here we go on this crappy blog. You want to know why I haven't been blogging, well I'm finally gonna tell you.

We went on vacation June 24th and came home on July 4th. July 1st, one of the guys that works for me, totalled my truck. My beautiful dodge. He was OK, but almost killed the passenger of the car he hit, when the other car ran a stop sign. I wanted to come home from vacation immediately. That was also the first time on vacation that I didn't take my phone to bed with me. So, I woke up to 13 missed calls.

Got home, everything was OK, but the lady was still in the hospital. Went back to work on July 5th. I went to see my biggest customer and was told that I had lost all of my glycol sales over 500 gallons. This was a blow, but not a big one, because these sales are what, when added to my regular sales, allow me to set new sales records for Dynochem, not where I actually make most of my sales.

July 7th, I lost the rest of my glycol sales to this customer, which IS where I make most of my sales and by that I mean most of my commission money. This was about 60-65% of my monthly sales. So, you can see the ramifications on my paycheck, and my head.

July 9th-10th. On the night of the 9th, late, I had to take Angie to the hospital in Denton for stomach pains. They kept her for 3 days, and treated her for Pelvic Inflamitory Disease, which she would have gotten from sleeping from someone other than me, or by me getting it by sleeping with someone other than her and then giving it to her. But they didn't tell us that at the time, so we accepted it without question. Oh, by the way, July 10th was out 13th wedding anniversary. I left her the first night in the hospital by saying, "Happy Anniversary, I Love You."

July 12th, I lost all of the rest of my business with my biggest customer, which added up to about another 10-15% of my business and commission. So I had lost about 70-85% of my total sales per month. And, I took care of these guys like they were my little sister. They wanted for nothing, lunches, service, someone to talk to, going to their weddings, all that shit.

I can't remember exact dates after this, but who cares at this point, I sure as hell didn't.

Next, I had to rush Angie back to the hospital to have her appendix removed. This was the cause of all of her problems. No, not sleeping around on either of our parts. That is something that we don't do to each other. I love my wife and she loves me, she showed me her boobies, and I love them too. Sorry, that was a cheap Waterboy reference to lighten the mood.

After that, my boss called me and my two guys to a meeting in Cisco to tell us that our company had been sold. This may not have been a big thing overall if I hadn't just gone from selling about $100,000 per month to about $25-30,000 per month. That's not enough to support 3 people and overhead and expenses and everything else that goes along with running a business. I knew that, but they didn't, and it sucked to have to keep that from them.

That was early August, and since then I have been looking for a new job. I have one and they don't. I feel horrible, but what could I do? I will have a spot for one of them soon, but not right away. Today is my last day in my old job and Monday I start with the new company. I will be taking all of my current customers with me with the exception of one.

I just found this out this week.

So there, now you know. This has been eating me up for 3 damn months, but now it is over. Blue skies and sunshine from here on out, right?

I hope so.

Tommorrow, I will tell you about my dune trip that lasted from Saturday til Tuesday with my boys. It's a much better story, I promise.

J