Interesting Opportunities
Today I was faced with two interesting opportunities that truly made my day. The first was when one of my employers handed me $600 and said, “go over to Best Buy and pick up a computer for me,” and the second was when Joey and I received an email from Cleavage Creek Cellars. They were emailing to inform us that they would be sending us free samples of their wine for the article I posted on Yourwiseguy.com.
Being a programmer, Website designer, and blogger, knowing the ins and outs of a computer comes naturally to me. I have built over a dozen PCs in my head and get excited about large sticks of ram - that’s what she said!
…Ahem, being as excited about computer hardware as I am, I rarely get to actually indulge myself in it. I have never purchased or built a custom computer in my life. My macbook was a Christmas gift from the folks and my desktop is an emachine frankenstein. The only custom things about it are it’s graphics card and power supply (which it can barely handle as it is).
You can imagine my delight when my boss, who has hired me to redesign his company’s Website, handed me a wad of one hundred dollar bills and told me to find the best computer I could find for a decent price. It was like Christmas morning! I hopped into my little car and rushed all the way to Best Buy. After about 45 minutes of spec and price comparing, I had a brand new emachine and Asus monitor.
I tell you it was like a dream come true, and it truly was the first time I had ever gone out and bought a computer like that! And from now on I will be using it to build the Website I have been hired to redesign.
The second unique opportunity I was faced with was an email from a representative of Cleavage Creek Cellars.
On Saturday I wrote an article on Yourwiseguy.com about vineyards using their profits to fund charities. Cleavage Creek Cellars sends money from their wine profits to various breast cancer research centers. They print pictures of breast cancer survivors onto the labels of their wine.
Anyway, I featured them in the article and had Joey email them just to make them aware of it. We weren’t asking for anything, just putting it out there.
In response to the article they have offered to send us some samples of their wine so we can review them on Yourwiseguy.com and spread the word! How cool is that? Needless to say, Joey and I are extremely excited!
Today was packed and I couldn’t have been more busy (as a matter of fact I still have tons to do before I can call it a day) but these two little events have made it all worth while. Doing what I do, going to school, working hard on Websites, and blogging for my brand and myself are all worth while because they are what I love to do!
I tell you, though, Yourwiseguy.com can still be a pain in the ass sometimes… Thanks for reading!
