What do y'all do when away for awhile

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Needless to say, in my line of work I am so busy these days I'm having difficulty keeping all the balls in the air. I find I MAY get an opportunity once a week (usually weekends) to check out the board but sometimes two or three weeks go by. When I log in there's often well over a 1,000 new posts and 6 or 7 pages of listings. I simply don't have time to read them all although I would like to, so I scan the titles to find those that look interesting, check posts on threads where I have posted then "Mark all read". How do you handle situations like this?
 
Barry, you're busy because marginal businesses collapse in a time of credit crunch and zero growth.

What I do is go have lunch at Morris.
 
I usually come to the realization that for the time I AM around I spend too much time on the forums and that the world won't come to an end if I just mark as read and start over :yes:
 
bbchien said:
Barry, you're busy because marginal businesses collapse in a time of credit crunch and zero growth.

What I do is go have lunch at Morris.
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Funny thing is Bruce is that if they just collapsed my job would be a lot easier - just hand them over to the bankruptcy courts and my lawyers. My biggest work is trying to keep troubled companies alive by restructuring, downsizing, etc. The first six weeks of this year I made trips to Denver (2), Minneapolis (1), Houston (1), Fort Lauderdale (1), Philadelphia (1) and Baltimore (1).
 
Away? Awaaaaayyyy? You mean, as in leave the residence. You guys keep sending us the storms which just gather intensity on their way past y'all and we've taken the brunt in the East. There was one period when we had three storms within five days, all doozies! My truck didn't leave the driveway for nine days; I just walked to the bottom of the hill -- 800 paces, round trip -- to get the newspaper and snail mail.

But I've been getting a lot more settling-in done at the new house. And "Lawreston / Distinctive Views" now has a Maine State Sales Tax number; I'm doing more shoots; domain address is legitimate till 2011 and website should -- finally -- be done in the near future. Now I'll have to do a new business card because most of the data(below) is non-current.

The Written is passed, good weather shall come, I've talked with the DE who does most of the "rides" around here, so bring on the daily sunshine with the longer days.

HR
 

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bstratt said:
Funny thing is Bruce is that if they just collapsed my job would be a lot easier - just hand them over to the bankruptcy courts and my lawyers. My biggest work is trying to keep troubled companies alive by restructuring, downsizing, etc. The first six weeks of this year I made trips to Denver (2), Minneapolis (1), Houston (1), Fort Lauderdale (1), Philadelphia (1) and Baltimore (1).
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Well Barry if you get to Philly or Balt. again let me know ,i'll come visit with you . I'm in Harrisburg about 2or so hours away from both( By car) .
Dave G.
 
bstratt said:
Needless to say, in my line of work I am so busy these days I'm having difficulty keeping all the balls in the air. I find I MAY get an opportunity once a week (usually weekends) to check out the board but sometimes two or three weeks go by. When I log in there's often well over a 1,000 new posts and 6 or 7 pages of listings. I simply don't have time to read them all although I would like to, so I scan the titles to find those that look interesting, check posts on threads where I have posted then "Mark all read". How do you handle situations like this?
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Similar. In addition, I do three more things before marking them all read (I, too, can't keep up with all of them):

  • I look for threads that have new posts that have a little 'arrow' on the envelope icon:
    thread_dot_hot_new.gif
    That arrow means that I have a post in that thread, so I've previously contributed and there may be replies to my messages that I need to answer.
  • I look for threads that have a high post count (these threads also have a red envelope
    thread_hot_new.gif
    instead of a yellow one
    thread_new.gif
    ). A high post count doesn't necessarily mean the thread is a GOOD one, but at least it has generated some interest... whether or not it's GOOD interest to YOU can only be told by clicking through...
  • On all new threads, hot or not, I hover my mouse over the thread's title on the "New Posts" page to get the little yellow popup that has the first part of the first post, just to get a feel for what the thread's about. I save myself a lot of clicking through and browsing back using that feature. I've been surprised sometimes, though, when a thread diverges from the initial post. You can't always judge a thread by its first post.

Generally, any more, I get an hour or two on the weekend to try to catch up, and that's it. The tips above help me keep it under control.
 
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Well Barry I hope the next time your in Philly You will look me up. Thats about all I can add.
 
Adam/Dave, thanks for the offer but those trips are "usually" get a 6:00am flight from O'Hare, meetings all day, get back to the airport, wait on the runway for three hours due to O'Hare ground delays, take off, get home around midnight! Any time I do arrive the night before usually entails evening meetings with lawyers, consultants and receivers!
 
Ugh! we just got back. Flew the GPS 36 CTL 18 and found that RayJean(?) had given up. Took the FBO car to 'Rplace" which is in the TAT truckstop at I-80 and IL 47, whcih was really good. Problem with this arrangement, is that we all have to wait for each other to take the only car down there.....sigh.
 
Barry, I do kind of a blend of what you and Troy do. Things have become much more busy for me at work too, so I no longer have time to sit and check the board constantly. So, I try to see if there are any replies to my posts first, or replies to threads that I've posted in, then I start at the back and work my way forward, looking at threads that have interesting titles. That's a good tip Troy had about the mouse-hovering thing, I'll need to start using that. Unfortunately, that trick doesn't work on the iTouch.

BTW - if you have some free time the next time you're in Houston (I know, not likely, but still), let us Houston-folk know.
 
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