Mixed Bag

How To Sell Your Business Without a Broker.  Catchy title.  Book has lots of twists and turns with a completely surprising ending.  Wait a minute that describes Durango Two Step, not a boring business book.  And believe me, if you are not interested in selling or buying a business, this book is dreadfully boring.  It includes mostly useless information about how businesses are valued.  Such things as capitalization rates, multiples, discounted cash flow analysis—wow, stop it’s too exciting.  And of course, there are the exciting chapters on due diligence and normalizing earnings.

Enough said.  If for some strange reason you are interested in the subject of this book it is now available on Amazon.  The e-book is $9.99 and the paperback, which should be available in a few days, is $17.  If you not interested in the subject matter, it has no value at all.

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Facebook still thinks I’ve done something wrong and has locked my account.  It’s still there, but I cannot access it– just in case I wanted to commit additional offenses.  Oh well.

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I’ve lived in the same house for about eighteen years.  The house is thirty-seven years old and many of its parts are still original.  Yes, there is a constant demand for repairs.  When we first moved in, we had some AC issues and randomly called for a repair person.  It was a local company, and the guy fixed our problem and became somewhat of a regular at our house.  Almost from the beginning, that was eighteen years ago, the guy was saying you really should replace that unit.

Air-conditioning is one of those things that on a really hot day you would pay almost anything for relief but on a cool day, not so much.  If you don’t need it the cost feels remarkably high.  Procrastination won and the same AC in in place today and the same repair man regularly makes an appearance.  He has gotten a lot older, and now talks about me replacing the AC before he retires.

I think about the things I will spend money on; more streaming services, food of any variety, landscaping (except trees) and new technology.  Maybe it’s because they are less expensive and you pay many of them in small increments.  I’m also a budget person.  I develop short-term and long-term budgets and if the expenditure is not in my budget, I have problems.

I could add to my budget for a new car, big new TV, even new oven, but new heating and air conditioning—not highly likely.  Unless, of course, it’s not working.  So, the only time I think about the old HVAC is when it is broken.

The curse of procrastination is that it will catch up with you, probably at the worst possible time.  Damn, I should have taken care of those brakes months ago and now I’m streaking down this mountain road; oops.

Obviously, having poor AC is not the same as dying on the mountain road with no brakes.  So, you just keep postponing, until the guy who comes around every so often say the magic words; your old AC is officially dead.  But until then I will just ignore the whole thing.

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Due to Amazon my readers are all over the world.   I’m not a several million-books sold author but have sold (or given away) hundreds of thousands over the years.  A surprising number of those readers are in Great Britain, Australia, Canada, and Asia.  And I hear from them on occasion.  For some reason that surprises me, maybe because I live in my Denver bubble and don’t think about other places too much.  The comment from these readers usually is regarding the locations and how they enjoy reading about those places, New Mexico in general and Santa Fe in particular.  Thanks to everyone for being a reader wherever you live.

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Speaking of unique places Durango Two Step is on track to be published later this summer, I hope.  Expect to have the per-order up soon on Amazon.

Thanks for being a reader!