Jet Lag

Was it yesterday that I posted that we were gonna clean some rain gutters, then wait for a snowstorm?  Seems like last month.  We all (Gerardo, Angel, Felix, Edgar, Eliseo and I) woke up at midnight to start plowing.  We finished an hour ago.  We plowed everywhere at least twice.

Oh, by the way, it's Thursday, 4:00 p.m., and I'm a little dopey.  My body and my brain are very tired, yet I know that it's still daylight out and therefore I have a bit of an adrenaline thing going on.

I have never traveled farther east or west than two time zones, so I guess I can't say for sure, but I believe this is what jet lag feels like.  So now I'm gonna "Google Earth"  the Eiffel Tower.  The Pyramids.  Sydney Harbor.

Snow Services

Wow.  What a busy summer it's been.  I haven't given myself time to post anything since whenever that was in May.  It's so nice now (December) to have some unscheduled time.  Time to relax, get caught up on my reading, bug my family, and wait for snow.

Speaking of snow...  In the description of our snow services, we emphasize that we only charge our customers for the work we do.  "Of course," you'd think, "How else would you do it?" 

In areas of the country where it snows a lot, and even in Park City, for example, snow plowing contractors bill their clients for seasonal coverage, say from December first through March first.  The clients pay for the entire season up front, with charges being based on historical snowfall averages.  Some years it snows a lot, and the customers get a good deal for their money.  Some years there's not much snow and they pay for a lot of nothing.

Down here in the Salt Lake Valley, however, it hasn't really snowed that much in recent years.  So I feel that it's more fair for us to charge "per push," in other words, for each storm.  Some years it snows often enough, and sometimes we have to plow more than once per storm.  In those cases, we make a decent income, and our customers still pay only for services they actually receive.  Other years (lately), there's not so many storms, and we have to tighten our belts.  But at least I don't feel guilty for charging our clients for nothing.

Having said that, I'd like to add  "Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!"