We’re back, after some travails.
Yesterday, I showed with two different clients, wrote five contracts, opened one escrow and moved 39 domains. I finished the day in South Phoenix, just as the mother of all storms was rolling across the Valley of the (cloud enshrouded) Sun. Y’all think you have weather where you are, but you ain’t seen a storm until you’ve lived through one of ours.
Witness:
That’s hail, forty-five minutes after it pummeled everything, followed by heavy rainfall, followed by still fairly warm temperatures. In other words, that’s some hardy hail. There are more photos here.
I left my clients soon after that photo was taken. The streets were paved with rushing rivers, and the trip home, which should have taken 20 minutes, lasted a full two hours.
Even so, the server swap was grinding on without me. We had a little trouble getting the (very big) BHB database back on line, but all else was pretty smooth. Scenius.net is down, and I have to make a host of minor fixes to some of my PHP files, but everything else seems to be normal.
Was all this worth it? We’re faster than a raped ape, and i haven’t done anything to supercharge our performance yet. It sucks when things don’t work just as you planned, but this — at last — was the right move.
Jeff Brown says:
OK, gotta give props when they’re earned. You’re officially as crazy a workaholic as Dad was — and he was from another planet. 🙂
October 7, 2010 — 8:49 am
Greg Swann says:
> You’re officially as crazy a workaholic as Dad was
Six to midnight, day after day, lately. I used to be able to go for three or four days without sleep, but I ain’t that young anymore. I notice that my stamina is better since I’ve been working out — which has been useful.
October 7, 2010 — 7:04 pm
Don Reedy says:
“Y’all think you have weather where you are, but you ain’t seen a storm until you’ve lived through one of ours.”
Should read: Y’all think you have real estate pros where you are, but you ain’t seen someone storm the beaches, take no prisoners and still find time to share a good story until you’ve known GS.
IMO, and once again, thanks so much for what can only be described as a Splendid effort, above and beyond the call.
October 7, 2010 — 9:00 am
Greg Swann says:
> IMO, and once again, thanks so much for what can only be described as a Splendid effort, above and beyond the call.
Bless you, Don. You are one of the bright spots on my horizon. When I want to remember what the world looks like, at its best, I think of your beatific smile.
October 7, 2010 — 7:08 pm
Jim Whatley says:
Try a Hurricane or BP oil spill. Hail melts.
October 7, 2010 — 2:28 pm
Greg Swann says:
> Try a Hurricane or BP oil spill. Hail melts.
Plagues of flying cockroaches and pushy tourists from Lawnguyland. You win. Florida has the worst of everything! 😉
October 7, 2010 — 7:10 pm
Crystal Tost says:
I live in Calgary, AB and we got pounded by hail as well resulting in record breaking insurance claims. There are people driving around everywhere with hail dented hoods.
Thanks for the post / pic 🙂
October 7, 2010 — 5:24 pm
Greg Swann says:
> There are people driving around everywhere with hail dented hoods.
Our gardener had much the same happen to him — dents all over his truck and the windshield broken. I have a house closing in Surprise, AZ tomorrow. Did the walk-through today. No evidence of the storm at all up there.
October 7, 2010 — 7:13 pm
Jeff Brown says:
It’ll only get better with time.
October 7, 2010 — 7:23 pm
Greg Swann says:
> It’ll only get better with time.
Alas, this will not be so. I wasted time and now doth time waste me. Getting old is contra-indicated. I’m always 19 years old in my mind, but at 50 I am too much aware of the things I cannot do, despite my teenager attitude.
October 7, 2010 — 7:40 pm
Thomas Johnson says:
Greg: Once upon a time there was a tortoise and this hare…
Slow and steady wins this one.
October 7, 2010 — 8:51 pm
Michael LaPeter says:
Hey Gregg,
I know it’s too late to help you, but if you ever start another website you may want to take a look at companies like Heroku (www.heroku.com), we use them for some of our sites and they make it insanely easy. Heroku is meant for ruby on rails based apps which I know you don’t use right now, but maybe something to consider for the next big venture of yours.
October 8, 2010 — 10:50 am
Tom Bryant says:
“…at 50 I am too much aware of the things I cannot do…”
Speaking from 57, it doesn’t get any better going forward : )
October 12, 2010 — 8:36 pm