Leah’s Cafe

Was at this particular bank today, second time in this month, was told the bank’s computer system was down and the transaction couldn’t be carried out. Was asked me to go in another hour or two. They could have done things manually like it used to be and enter into the system later, couldn’t they? May be they are just lazy and took the downtime as their well deserved break!

I bet they won’t think it’s fun to have downtime so often if they are running their own small business. May be the bank needs to look into getting Sophos to minimize the possibility of any attacks from virus and/or malware and to be able to recover as quick as possible if there is any future attacks.

In the competitive business world, it’s SO bad to tell your customers that they have to come back another time, for they may just walk out and never return!

Have been doing house cleaning myself, mopping the floor, cleaning the kitchen, scrubbing the bathroom, vacuuming the carpet and cleaning the bathroom vanities are tiring. Did I tell you I hate house cleaning? :-)

Don’t know what happened to the part time cleaner! Hasn’t been able to get in touch with her for a few weeks. When contacted, her cell phone rang until it got into voice mail. Looks like she has just evaporated from the surface of the earth, though most probably she had moved to another town.

Over the weekend, my mother told me that my brother and sister in law had given away all the baby stuffs including the car seat and baby clothes. They had kept all this at the spare bedroom in my parent’s house for years.

Since their youngest daughter is already 8 years old and our family is not going to have a baby anytime soon, so it’s better for them to give to someone who needs them!

It’s quite funny that among all my uncles, the eldest two uncle who are in their 80s and late 70s are the healthiest among all. My forth uncle is in his late 60s, lives very healthily and exercises daily, but he has high blood pressure since his late 30s.

My fifth uncle is three years younger than the forth uncle. He is a smoker, lives very unhealthy lifestyle and never exercises, he is diabetic since his mid 50s. His diabetes gets really bad the last two years, my cousin has to inject insulin to his body system everyday to control his diabetes right now. This diabetic supplies are not cheap, luckily he is rich!

In fact, he would have died two years ago if he has no money to go for a major surgery to remove a tumor found in his brain. The tumor was so big that it had started to press on some nerves and caused numbness in his left hand and left leg. He had to go through physiotherapy to learn to walk again after his surgery.

You could say it was a near death experience for him. You would think he would live more healthily after that. But he said: I would rather died if I have to abstain from so many food and can’t do so many things. :-)

There are piles of paperwork to sort out this week. There are a few things are going on concurrently now. There are all urgent and need to be done in timely manner so that when I leave for IL, there is no untied ends let loose.

We have paperwork related to the business that we just sold, immigration related paperwork and all the financial related paperwork that needs to be taken care of during our absence.

Have you ever purchased any furniture online? Once upon a time, the idea of shopping for furniture over the internet seemed as crazy as buying your clothing online. But now the online sales of apparel has fetched higher value than computer equipment and software, the idea of buying furniture online doesn’t seem so far-fetched.

The only way we can truly tell whether we are getting what we want is to examine a piece in person, so that we know it’s comfortable, durable and has detailed finishing. Barring that, you best bet will be buying it from a reputable dealer, study the listing carefully, call and ask questions and then make sure they have a return policy before you purchase.

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We spent the first half of last year wrestling with the decision whether to close down the preschool. We decided in June and it was folded up officially in August.

The big boy has delayed his plan to return here for the umpteen times, we decided that it’s better for me to move to IL to be reunited with him. That decision was made before or around Thanksgiving. The disposing of “stuffs” started then.

Everything has gone on rather smoothly after we made the big decision. Sold the first floor of the tutoring business in November 2007. Moved out of the first floor and sold some of the furniture, one thousand over children story books and the Montessori materials in December 2007. Sold more books and furniture in January 2008.

Was caught up with all the CNY activities during the first half of February. Last week of February, got an unexpected offer from a prospective buyer who had made an inquiry and had seen the place many months ago but didn’t get back to us!

By the rate it goes, our ties with the business will come to an end before April. Once we are done with the transfer of name and licensing, we will hand over of our present students to the teacher whom we are training to take over the SWR classes.

Things seem to sail smoothly, sometime I can’t believe it myself, that we are able to dispose everything (ok, almost everything) in such a short time frame. Considering the struggles we went through in the last few years, it feels very much like the light at the end of the tunnel !!

There are more and more vehicles running on the roads and inevitably, accidents happen more frequently. We read in the newspaper and saw on the TV news almost daily that there were some fatal accidents. And, there were quite often involved a truck!

The families who have their loved ones injured badly or died in such accidents may find this a traumatic and horrendous experience! Many may not look into engaging a truck accident lawyer to claim damages while they are grieving. If your loved one was involved in a truck accident in Nebraska, you may seek out the help of a Nebraska Truck Accident Lawyer. Demerath Law has attorneys who are able to offer their experience in handling personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits resulting from such accidents.

It’s trues that money cannot bring the people back to life but any damages claimed will probably make life easier for the surviving, especially if the people who were injured or died were the sole breadwinners of the family.