Santi Ficarnos

Every winter I go to the mountains of North Carolina and ski and ride snowmobiles, this year I have decided to add a snowboard to my winter fun gear. I looked around to find the very best snowboard available and what I found was very exciting. Burton snowboards are the very top of the class and that is the route that I want to go with my snowboards.

Christy Sports is by far the leader in snowboards and other winter equipment and the best thing is the are having a sale right now on the gear we need for our winter adventures. Check out their web site at http://store.christysports.com to get your Burton snowboard or any of the other great items in their inventory.

In our business we print about 500 sheets a day, some days a bit less some days a bit more. In printing that many pages we use a lot of paper and ink. We had to find a better way to get in cartridges than buying them retail. What I found was InkJetDeals.info they have a wide variety of ink printer cartridges for sale and the prices are a lot lower than what I was paying retail. inkjet printer cartridges are not cheap I was paying around $60 each to buy new cartridges. The web site lists sites to buy your printer cartridges from saving up to 80% as a small businessman I can use the saved money to buy other supplies.

I use a HP printer ink cartridge in my business and I love the price on this web site it saves me around $20 per cartridge. I love my printer it is very dependable and the only down side is the expense of buying new ink about every 6 weeks.

InkJetDeals has information on all the major brands including HP, Dell, Brother and Lexmark and many more, check out their web site at http://www.inkjetdeals.info to get all the information about the kind of printer cartridge that your printer uses.

With the high price of gas and other items rising right along side gasoline it is so very important to save money where we can and this site helps me save money every day.

With our business being a delivery service we use vans to do most of the hauling of the newspapers. Using vans can be a bit expensive including the cost of the vans and the fact that they use more gas than the smaller vehicles, but vans save us a lot in the fact that they haul more and for the most part vans are very dependable.

One variable that is common with all the vehicles we use is car insurance, no matter if it is a van or a car you need to have good insurance and finding good van insurance is not as easy as it sounds. Van Insurance can be very expensive if you do not find a good insurance carrier.

The Insurance company I use is the Auto Net Insurance Group, they have fantastic rates for work vans and their service is fantastic. We have had no problems since we began using them to insure our work vans and that is one huge relief off our minds.

One of the things that I love about this Insurance that if within forty eight hours if you find cheaper Insurance they will refund your money, a guarantee like that gives me peace of mind that I have the very best van insurance rates when I use Auto Net Insurance Group, and as high as prices are getting now every penny that we can save is so very important to our small company.

In our delivery business we have one very significant problem, we deliver newspapers at night, so finding addresses that are not well marked is a huge problem. In some of the neighborhoods we deliver into this problem haunts us nightly.

After doing a bit of searching we have found a solution to our problem. Golight has a very nice spotlight. This great light is perfect for our business, and Larson Electronics has a huge selection from which to choose, including the “Go Light” that I want to purchase.

Check out the Larson Electronics web site at http://www.magnalight.com to see their complete selection of Magna Lights they have on hand, including the “Go Light” I have selected. They have everything from spot lights to flash lights and everything in between. The remote control spot lights are also very nice, and I am thinking about purchasing one of them in the near future.

In our business the inability to locate an address in the darkness of night can be very frustrating and this great light will help us to combat that. I love the fact that the black case color matches my Tahoe and will look very nice mounted on my truck. I think if you are looking to purchase spot lights for your fleet of vehicles, this web site can put you “into the light,” so to speak.

We recently had a coworker pass away and I was the person who got the sympathy card to pass around to give to his family. He had worked for the company since moving here in 1998, and apparently suffered a heart attack Wednesday night. His wife called to tell us yesterday morning and we are all in shock - this was so unexpected and he will be missed by all of us here.

Our Human Resources Manager is out on vacation, so I shopped for the card and decided that we might as well order some nice sympathy cards to keep on hand for future use. One of the sad aspects of working for a large company is that yo share a lot of life’s tragedies with your fellow workers as well as the good times like birthdays, new babies, and other reasons to celebrate. If we are going to keep a selection of birthday cards on hand then we might as well be prepared with cards for the less happy occasions, too.

In a time of sorrow the need to say something comforting to the survivors is a very human response. We need to express our caring for the person who passed and offer comfort to the loved ones left behind. Something that I like to include in a sympathy card is a little story or memory to share with the family.

My mother had wonderful social skills and I have to admit that the little I know I got from her good example. At my grandfather’s funeral, I listened to what the people said to my grandmother and to my mother as they were greeted at the funeral home. I decided that the best thing to say to someone’s spouse or parent is to just say, “This is a sad day.” or “We are all going to miss him very much.” Just saying something simple and heartfelt is good for me to express my feelings without getting choked up or mumbling or saying something stupid, and it is good for the family to hear. That’s what I write on the sympathy cards, too - just a simple one or two sentences that let them know that I care.