Our summer has been all about camping. Leave work early, pack the van and the trailer and have my legs kicking up around 8pm after putting everything together.
There is always one weekend I look forward to because the people around this camping are just plain crazy. This year’s theme was ‘from the World’. People got dressed up in their ‘representative’ country and brought representative food.
I represented Mexico with my family. For a reason or another, the smell of Tequila always hazes my recollection of Mexico… So Tequila and Nachos it was.
We had a great time and as usual, well into the night. The kids got up at 9h30 am and I had to thank the Mexican Gods. I asked my wife if we could sacrifice her on a pedestal but she declined. I will find another way to make it up to you guys!
I hope nobody has time to read my blog as they are all on vacations with their kids 
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8 five years old for 4 hours…piece of cake….except after the sugar rush from the cake….
What can I say, it was a blast!
I seem to be phasing in and out of blogging… Why? Well, I find it’s a mix of availability of my time and my interest in it.
As an entrepreneur, I usually focus on single topics for weeks until I find the answer I am seeking…either positive or negative. I don’t typically watch tv and have no clue what is going on on any reality tv show. Thus I find I have the same ‘attitude’ with blogging. I start reading and reading and reading and I start back writing again.
I strongly suppose I will follow the same pattern in the same future!
So what has been happening in my life and at Electronic Time Capsule. Well a fair bit, I am still involved in a Lapointe Drainage (an excavation company) and we are currently working on building the largest water park in Canada. It’s pretty amazing to see it happen. Electronic Time Capsule will be going through it’s first major changes/alterations in the upcoming weeks with addition and changes I can’t comment on!!!
Personally, my spouse flew off to Cuba for a week and last week I took care of my brothers kids for 4 days… So it’s been busy but frankly a lot of fun.
Zoé and Alexis looking for easter eggs!
When I created this service, it was from my angle. A first time father who couldn’t write what he wanted to his daughter in her journal as she might read it when she will be 5. The alternative was a bunch of sealed envelopes with a ‘do not open before’ date on it…
We all know what happened in back to the future… Marty did put the letter back together but that’s beyond the point. I strongly suspected she would open them up before the date.
This being said, the reason why somebody uses my services i.e. the angle they are coming from is not a question that is asked when you sign up for the service. I do know there are different angles out there because I have heard them in trade shows, I have heard them in the market study.
If you are willing to share your angle for using my services, please let me know, either by responding to this post or by simply emailing me at david@electronictimecapsule.com
If not, whatever your angle is, I am happy that you find my service useful.
For me it’s all those small moments…
One of the thoughest jobs I find as an entrepreneur is hiring and firing or laying off individuals. Yesterday I laid off one guy and also took a 1988 Kenworth off the road. The rig didn’t say anything, it just rested it’s metal and fiberglass body as it had done it’s time.
As for the individual I laid off well it was another story. Individuals have pride, families and lives. I know it comes with the territory but I don’t think I will ever be able to remove that felling from my stomach. I don’t think any ‘boss’ ever likes firing/laying off people.
I guess I must have dealt with it properly as this afternoon we got a new contract which required us to re-hire this individual. We called him at noon and he was in by 12h30.
Thanks, you know who you are.
Because of my involvement with my in-laws business (www.lapointedrainage.ca ) I have being versed on a brand new industry that is…way different from anything I have experienced.
I was at a Drainage convention last week and it was bizarre. For one I didn’t understand anything anybody said because the lingo of this industry is new to me and second because none of the presenters had any knowledge of the basics of presenting. This made for long presentations and too much coffee.
What is there to say about the drainage industry except it’s misunderstood if not completely unknown from the public in general!
I think 4 days away on business once in a while is actually a good thing for an entrepreneur. Traveling permits me to think beyond the day to day or the evident issues and really work on planning and the ideas germinates in my brain. The fact you also don’t have to deal with human resources also removes a lot of the clutter.
It is also a good reminder to enjoy your time with the kids as you miss them so much. I am pretty sure I am good for another 3 months now!
