12:10 – Wow almost 7 straight hours of driving, but I feel very productive. This is my first stop as I am very hungry (especially considering the delicious aroma that the bio-bunny puts out). My Davis friend™ that I am doing the road testing for I think felt a little sorry for me. He gave me some cash for food and inexpensive lodging (I have to keep an eye on expenses, right? That’s one of my goals for my 2007 “financial fitness” ™ plan.
I took a brief rest stop at the “Jail House Motel & Casino” in Ely, NV. I know from a lot of you haters™ that you will find some irony in it, but the sign out front said “20Oz. Porterhouse Steak and All this Fixins for $5.95”. Since I am now on a budget™ I need to watch prices and this seems like the best protein value around. I’ll go heavy on the veggies to stay within my modified vegan™ dietary constraints.
Fortunately this little motel/casino has a WiFi hotspot and the people are very pleasant. I am able to moderate the posting as I efficiently travel to Utah. I am truly a multi-tasker™ now!
While I was on the road I listened to my messages and returned calls. I am not yet able to divulge all of my activities, but I can say that I had some good and some bad news. First the bad. About an hour ago I tried calling the Chicago funding source and I was told by their receptionist that their business trip did not go as well as planned. There were some complications involved and they are currently conferencing with the law firm protecting their interests (I know how important that is in a business environment!). The receptionist said that it could be as long as 72 hours before they would be able to contact her, but she would pass along my message. Sweet!™ Things are moving in my direction. I can feel it.
Next, I talked to the Rio Ranch Realtor® and she said that unexpectedly her credit card processing had been completed and was functional. She said that her new website (I don’t yet have a link, but stay tuned) had received over 20,000 hits in the first 24 hours! Sweet™ deal for her. I explained that I had considerable experience in dealing with sponsors and I could offer her some tips to avid the pitfalls I had. She politely said that it wouldn’t be necessary. She already had 78 “subscriptions” and 4 bookings. She really, really wants me to let her use the Rio Ranch property until it is disposed. She stresses that with her current momentum, she could be able to pay me maybe $2,500 a month in sweet passive income™.
I’m not sure what to make of that. G™ was a little concerned that whatever her new venture was that it sounded shady. No more gray area for me! I am strictly going to be conducting my affairs along ethical/moral guidelines. However, the $2,500 passive income could allow me to possibly save this property from foreclosure. That would be sweet™ and might give me some leverage to begin paying back the dirty pennies™.
Maybe if I explain this opportunity in financial terms G™ can see the value it has and how it may be my way back to salvation™.
1:00 - I am on the road again. I am pleasantly full and feel surprisingly invigorated by my modified vegan™ dietary regime. I truly believe that if I continue this regime and add an exercise program, I will be big™ in just a few short weeks. I tried to compliment my modified vegan™ meal with carrot juice, but the waitress just gave a weird blank stare. I settled for apple juice (I’m still abit skeptical of Alar on produce), and decided it was all good.
I’ll be on the road quite abit so I’m not sure when the next update will be.
Stay tuned.
(PS – I feel more productive by disciplining myself to provide you with more detailed and consistent updates of my daily activities. What do you think?)
(PPS – for those of you checking, I have had 11 calls from CashCall since leaving Sacramento. Thank God for caller ID. I really do want to talk to them, but right now I have several promising ventures – Chicago lender, Hard Money Lender, and now the Rio Rancho profit sharing opportunity. I simply cannot commit to a repayment plan until I see how these things shape up.)
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BAD NEWS IN UTAH
4:30 – I can’t believe my luck! I arrived here with only 1 refueling (I averaged 43.2 miles per gallon). It seems like much longer than the 10 hours it took, but I read somewhere that long haul truck drivers use amphetamines sometimes to stay awake longer. Not me. I have decided to treat my body as a temple. No foreign substances or artificial ingredients.
On the drive, I listened 2 two truly life changing books on take (the bio-bunny has a cassette deck – sweet! ™). The first book was a 1953 book psychology, paraphysiology and the impact of diet on mental processes. If you can believe it, they actually advocated consuming small amounts of radium as a dietary supplement to invigorate certain thought channels in the brain. That part is not for me, but I came away with some new ideas to help me channel my inner focus and outer psyche to maximum potential. I think that there have been certain subliminal messages (exacerbated by the haters™) that have kept me from blossoming into my full potential.
Making a list and prioritizing it is the key.
The second book “29 Inner Secrets Of The Most Successful Billionaires And How They Got There” was 100% on target. I am glad I listened to this one after the first book as it really fit well into why I have a tendency to procrastinate. No more. From here out, prioritize and organize.
Just as I reached the Nevada/Utah I conferenced the Utah buyer and my team member™ to confirm our meeting time. I had unintentionally written the meeting date down as for today/this weekend. It is actually next weekend – I am a week early! You see, this just verifies the wisdom that I had gained on the drive here – I must pay closer attention to detail, and prioritize. All was not lost. The bio-bunny performed better than expected, and….
I got a call from the Rio Rancho Realtor®. Her website meter is going crazy with hits and she is up to over 100 subscribers and has tentative booking for 6 private “client seminars” for this weekend. She is desperate to use the Rio Rancho property. I tried to press her form more details about exactly what the “Limitless Ladies - Beyond Exotic and in Your Home” concept is about. (I’m pretty sure it is like that ‘women helping women’ pyramid scam from a couple of years ago which is why I am uneasy with the concept).
She politely says “no, it’s not a pyramid scheme, and it is definitely not aimed just at women. She tells me she is not quite 100% comfortable discussing the details on the phone.
I can understand that. There have been various times in my business career when I felt that I was just on the edge of hooking a super sweet™ deal up and I didn’t want to discuss it. I tell her that I am in Utah and after a brief rest I could possibly drive to New Mexico and meet her personally. She says that if I agree to meet her at the Rio Rancho property, she can pay me an initial $500 fee to use the house just for this weekend and possibly more.
Now I know I really could use the extra money, and using a vacant house for one weekend for $500 doesn’t seem at all like it could be anything bad, right? So I tell her OK, as long as we have a meeting and she fully explains her concept and that I have final approval.
4:45 – Check into a Motel 6 for a few hours of shuteye. I have another big drive ahead of me in the bio-bunny. I want to be fresh and in tip-top condition. I ask at the front desk if they have an exercise room, but to my disappointment. No.
4:50 – Call my Chicago people. No, they are still unavailable and the secretary says she doesn’t think they will be available until Monday afternoon. Just my luck.
5:40 – Call one of my business partners™ regarding the potential sweet deal™ that would generate the passive income™ I’m looking for. My business partner™ says he definitely has a source for a hard money lender™ that wants to stay in the background – sweet! ™. He is handling some of the preliminary details, wants to avoid any lose™ ends, but is concerned that before closing the deal the hard money lender might want to see my financials. I tell my business partner™ that I have not had to do that previously in closing on property. Isn’t there a way to do some sort of “stated financials” transaction (I know what you are thinking at this point, but I don’t feel so shady with the passive income™ being as much as it is – perhaps just a slightly higher rate, of course it would reduce the cash flow, but every successful titan had to make initial concessions.) My business partners™ seemed very upbeat at the possibility of raising the interest rate to offset my financials.
That is what I call out of the box thinking™.
I fully intend to handle this in an ethical way™ with no shady dealings™.
I really want to run all of this by G™, but she is unavailable. OK. My inner psyche is now in full sweet deal™ mode.
I am in!
I know I can turn this into a positive™.
By the way, since I only brought enough fuel for my Utah trip and a 25% reserve, I am a little concerned about the trip home. I’ll call my friend™ in Davis and ask what recommendations he has for an extended range trip. It will also give me a chance to give him a road test update on the performance of the bio-bunny. I think there is a future for this bio-fuel, if only he can reduce the day old Chinese food smell. I can’t imagine how someone’s garage might smell after a few startups in cold weather.
OK. I’m positive™ focused™ and looking forward to my day ahead. Now to get some shuteye. I am sure I am on the road to redemption™ and salvation™ for sure.
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10:07 PM - Cr### I slept too long! I just realized the the Realtor® ladies in NM are expecting me in leass time than it takes to drive from here. On the one hand, I can sleep until tomorrow and continue my disrupted early riser™ ideal regimine, and impress the “ladies:, or I can forego the early riser™ regimine and get fully rested (perhaps with a proper modified vegan™ nutrition break) and be fully rested and prepared to conduct high level business.
My instinct is to arrive fully ready to disavow any participation in a “women helping women” pyramid scheme (no more schemes for me™). I have made the executive decision to get a good night’s rest before making my next (near) trans-continental treck in the bio-bunny. A least like I feel like a low-carbon (part Chinese) pioneer!
So with that, good night to all (even the hater™ who I think are somewhat envious of me now that I am on an intersteate adventure!)
I’ll let the Rio Rancho Ladies know I’ll be there by noon.
