1 year

Well on July 25th 2006 we celebrated 1 year since we openned Ham & Cheese. So we have passed the statistic of 3 out of 4 businesses fail in their first year. We haven't failed yet.

On another note I have decided that it is useless to continue this blog on a regular basis until I can blog by sms from Latvia or we get internet in the Sandwich Shop. When big things happen I of course will try to write about them, but as for the everyday stuff I just can't keep that going anymore.

Thanks for reading!

Best Day Ev..ar

Today we hit a new high in sales. I am really tired, but I had to tell someone so there you go. Goodnight.

Hockey

Well the chaos has begun. Old town is a wash with Scandinavians. You can follow all the action at www.hokejs.lv.

More Work

My usuall day.

Sleep, Work, Eat, Email, Blog, Wash, Sleep.

Rinse, Repeat Wipe Hands on Pants.

Thats enough for today.

More Posts

Well I am posting again, but I don't really have anything to say, but I thought I would let you know about what my plans are for Easter. Tomorrow I have to work, but after that I am heading to Madona by bus. There I will spend Easter with Lena and her family. On monday morning I we be back on a bus to Riga inorder to go to work. Sometime next week is my birthday, but it looks like I will have to work on my birthday. We have been presented with an opportunity to sell Sandwiches at a sporting event which would be huge for us. I wasn't really planning on doing anything for my birthday anyway, because the next day is the grand ball of Lena sorority so we will celebrate there. If I remember I will take some nice Easter pitures to post. Wait for them.

Spring Has Sprung

Well just as soon as the snow hit the ground it melted and spring started, but of course with spring comes rain. It is also Palm Sunday or as it is known here as Pussywillow Sunday, because Palms don't grow this far north and pussywillow have been used for thousands of years here to ward off evil and sickness. Anyway, that is you knowledge dosage for today.

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I want this to be my new profile picture, but it is too big. I will have to make it smaller somehow.

Lets blow the dust off of the blog.

Yeah so I guess it has been a long time since I have blogged so I guess I need to make up for lost time, but of course as always as soon as I start writing I forget what I was going to write about. It sucks that I can't blog from my phone through sms. Anyway, It was snowing here yesterday. SNOWING IN APRIL. Yeah... I don't know how much more of that I can take, but today was a great spring day. (place tinfoil hat on head) Overall I that that whoever is contolling the weather machines is just screwing with our heads (remove tinfoil hat). As far as the business we have a new website now and it looks better then the old one. Sales are increasing, but so is the amount of crap that surrounds the shop like crap on a bug. Since I haven't blogged in forever and a day I don't really know who will read this, so I guess I can say whatever I want and know one will notice. Give this huge opportunity I draw a complete blank like an sheet of paper. OK well I will wrap up this joyful wondering through the receses of my mind. I hope all is well.

New Years

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Hi there.

I don't know what to write, but I just wanted to let everyone know that I'm still alive and well. I don't know if I posted it before, but here is that link to the Sandwich Shop. www.ham-cheese.com.

NASCAR?

OK, OK, OK, so I can't post everyday like I wanted, but I'm posting now so back off. As you can imagine I have been really busy, but I bet you can't guess what I'm doing right now. I'm watching NASCAR. I don't know what the heck is going on, but from a broadcasting point of view they have to have atleast 3000 commentators, and all of them are WAY too into the racing. But I guess it is a red state thing. Anyway enough of that it is night time and almost time to go to bed. This weekend is going to be a working weekend so who knows when I'm going to be able to post again, but I'll try.

Title

OK so I missed a day, but I was busy. Yesterday was a regular day like I haven't had in a long time. It was full of work and school. It is back to the grind and no sign of relief ahead. It looks like I'm not going to have a day off until we open in hopefully two weeks. My work life is now filled with the little things like toilet paper and light bulbs. It is the little things that we have been putting off because we knew it would just take 2-3 days to take care of. Worrying about the little things also means that we are in the home stretch. Most of the big things are either taken care of or finishing. OK well now it is back to work.

New Shoes

Today, Lena and moved around a bit and I met up with Gary to see what more needs to be done with Ham & Cheese before we open. There is still alot to do and it is days like this that make openning day seem so far away, but it will be here soon we just need to keep our noses to the grindstone and everything will work out. After meeting Gary, Lena and I went to see the Anton Corbain Exhibition. He takes artistic pictures of famous people. I liked it. Lena says she liked it too. From the exhibition we went to the mall to look for an airmatress for when Adams comes to visit, but they were all out so we are just going to have to wait. In the mean time I bought new shoes. Overall things are going well, tomorrow it is back the Sandwich Shop.

Summer Sun

Well the midsummers festival is over and Lena and are bedridden due to the sun poisoning recieved after falling asleep on the beach. The party itself was great and I hope to have pictures up somewhere for all to see. Other than that nothing else is really going on. Sorry so short, but my face hurts.

Hey Hey

Hey Hey everyone look at me I've got internet at home now. Lena and I decided that this really would mak everything so much easier, with work and school. The price is right and it is cable internet so it is fast. Of course this means that the night before the Jani celebration we are staying up and playing for the internet and more importantly the internet functions on alot of my Mac software. What this means for you guys is that I will finally be able to keep up with all the posting. So stay tuned for all the latest.

Wow it has almost been a whole month

I can't believe that it has been that long since I've posted. You will have to forgive me, because I've have been so busy that I even haven't had a drink in two weeks. OK thats is not as bad as it sounds, but I have been really busy. The Sandwich Shop now to be known as Ham & Cheese is around three weeks away from opening. Things are going really well of course everything has it's ups and downs but the overall movement is a good one. In other news today I acompanied Lena to the airport. She is going to a conference in Pottsdam, Germany concerning cultural management. She will be back on Sunday. I really don't have time to rant as I usually do so this amount of information will have to do for now. It might be that the next time I post the Shop will be open.

Everybody! Everybody!

Everybody! Everybody!

Here is a link to the homestarrunner website for those of you who don't know or for those of you who have forgotten I strongly encourage you to catch up on your strongbad emails. I am going to try and post everyday again like I used to, but I'm not promising any awe inspiring posts. Most of them will probably be just like this.

Back to the Grind

Well now that Aris has left I can return to the stress filled routine that is my life, but before I do that I wanted to post, because I know that the last few posts have just been quick ones, so I wanted to have alteast one normal post before I start running around again. Overall things are going well the sandwich shop is alittle behind schedule, but it is nothing of major concern, because now that we have found a place next to the University of Latvia our target audience is students who will only be there in the fall, so it gives us a little time to work with and set things up so that everything works great. In other news school is also going well although, due to health problems with the professor's mother last week and this week we won't have lectures, which is good, because it gives me time to catch up on all the work and reading, but of course I only wish all the best for the professor's mother. Due to school, I haven't been keeping up with my Lettonia responsiblities, and hopefully this week I will beable to let the guys know that I haven't forgoten about them. In fact tonight is an important night which I will beable to attend, but this weekend is a larger event that I won't beable to attend. In other news my uncle Dzintars in coming to Latvia on Wednsday with his family, I don't really know how this is going to affect everything that I have to get done, but I haven't seen them in a long time and it will be nice to catch up on how they are doing. In news that I had completely forgoten, the Kentucky Derby took place last Saturday and I missed it along with all the pre-coverage. Today I read everythiing I could in the New York Times about what happened and when the next race in the tripple crown is. the problem is that the race is run at 6 pm EST which means 02.00 (2 AM) here, so it dosen't look like I'm going to see that one either, but hopefully I will have time to read what is going on, maybe I can fine a copy of the New York Times somewhere. Anyway, I guess this post is long enough, and I think I have run out of things to say so I'll just stop.