Where the heck have I been?!?!

[RoboGeek]

Well, business took off so good I had to buy a new shop (beats renting - twice the space at the same cost!), and a new (very old) house. So I have been playing Bob Vila and replacing plumbing, carpet, some electrical, tile etc. The shop is about halfway built and is a full-on retail PC sales and service shop. We still do network security as our backbone, but I can beat any local retail shop by a good 20% so I thought.. why not?

So the 21st is the opening date for the new shop, and after a few weeks of getting settled and finding lost goodies I'll be back to answering the OBDI, electronic and basic questions.

This has been a very hectic 6 months.. thanks for your patience and be sure to drop by for the housewarming and open shop parties. Pizza and beer will surely be lurking around waiting to be consumed....

[arthansen]

Where is your shop?

Oh, and Congradulations on getting your own place. Good Luck.

[RoboGeek]

Its new location is:

BNS
308 S. Daniel st
LeRoy, Il 61752
(309)962-2329

The shop is in the lot next to the house.. can you get any more convenient?
If everything works out right there will be a BNS sponsored sprint car in the front of the shop.. otherwise it will just be the #1 UMP car with the old sponsorship. Business Network Solutions will remain very active in the local racing community no matter what..

Get off your asphalt - Dirts for racin'!

[Magic_Chicken]

It's about damn time you showed up! lol

[Screamn03]

I was wondering what happened to you. I see your posts all over the place in some of the older threads but that was before I registered for the board. Congrats on the new-to-you house and the new shop .

-Mike

[RoboGeek]

I'm just hoping things slow down a bit soon.. I'm getting wore out. Today the display cases go in so hopefully I'll have the office part set up pretty quick - then I have to hook up all my PC's and figure out what I have stored on which one. As the nodes on my Beowulf cluster died, I just moved data to whatever was still running.

I'll post some pics of the renovations later.. here's the house though

http://mysite.verizon.net/res0ofp6/house.htm

[Magic_Chicken]

Holy crap! Transplant that house to California and it'd be worth anywhere from $200k to $1mil + depending on location. Nice steal! I need to get out of Cali!

[Screamn03]

Holy crap! Transplant that house to California and it'd be worth anywhere from $200k to $1mil + depending on location. Nice steal! I need to get out of Cali!

Same here, Ca sucks sometimes.

I can't believe you got all that for 65K, nice.

[RoboGeek]

yea.. I moved here from Cali.. thats why I'm in shock from what we paid. Also in Cali I paid $2000/mo for a 1200 sq/ft shop.. plus a ton of business-related taxes. Here I have 1000 sq/ft for $343/mo and I own it. All I have to pay are state sales (ROT) taxes on my retail part.

And as usual.. my display cases weren't installed today - but I now have everything within a few thousand feet wired for cat 5. Phones and PC's are now ready to be hooked up.. as soon as I have a place to hook them up to!
I need the carpet guys and the display cases so I can install the workbenches and the wiring rack.

On the bright side I did find my burner and some disks with software today. I also found 2 PC's I didn't know I had.. lovely 486-100's that may soon become routers

[Screamn03]

lovely 486-100's

Holy crap, that was so 1992 for me. LOL, those were the days. I remember playing Flight Simulator 1.0 and the Monkey Bannana game in q-basic. Dude, don't do that again, got scared there for a second about what I though use to be "cool". Dammit, now I feel old and I'm only 20. That sucks.