edison wrote:

>Unless you have operated a small business, you probably cannot truly
>appreciate just how much can fall on one person's shoulders. It is not lack
>of planning, it is lack of resources.
>
This is certainly true... we now spend a great deal of time planning on
resource acquisition and allocation. Why, it never occured to me until I
was asked this afternoon but suddenly we needed two masonry nails -- it
was critical -- and though the kind lady in the hardware store across
the street from the job would give four for a nickle we chose to go with
a quarter because we expect to have to return for another critical
moment. We also needed to hoist with a well wheel 900 brick up a 30 foot
wall and being short of help (labor resource deficiency) my son and I
lifted brick. Not exactly what we have in mind but then again we can't
leave the site (a problem of management resource) and we get bored easy.
We are also short a vehicle, so when the dog got put to sleep my wife
rented a car to go to the vet. It is also a problem when we get up early
and start driving down the road then suddenly realize that we forgot to
put gas in the car and now we are stuck in traffic in the Hamptons and
no gas station anywhere in sight. We tried an alternate route this
morning and found that it took the same amount of time. Though we hooked
up a hose in the bank basement to get water it turned out that the
expensive hose I recently purchased is defective and blows water all
around  the room, including on bank records. We switch the hose out and
we have the same problem not quite as severe and son ties his new hat --
discount off-season price on kool hat bought the week before -- to the
sink in order to deflect the water. Meanwhile the mason and helper, not
speaking good English and not aware that we have invested 3 manhours in
'hose' and one good deflecting hat no longer deflecting sun from son's
head, causing other resource problems --- they climb down the roof hatch
into the bathroom and fill up from the sink. Everything going smoothly,
son sees a rainbow -- crew appears to think I am daffy "Mr." trying to
show them colors in the sky -- yet blue sky all around is nice. We are
wondering what resources we will not have available when the hurricane
arrives on Friday. After twelve hours we bought beer then buried the
dog. I'm told the frig is on the fritz and I'm wondering if dinner is
postponed for lack of resources. I'll end off by reading three or four
pages in the Day of the Triffids.

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