Being productive

 Last night I took apart three large instruments for the parts so now I have a good bunch of parts to list on Ebay now. And I realized that I needed to not just stay up late, but it would be best to do an all-nighter packing things and then go to the post office right when they open with the packages, FedEx too.

So I did this. One thing was ordered by a guy in France and ... we don't have it. And I can't cancel the order or even communicate with the guy so I'm just going to ignore it and eventually Ebay will refund the guy out of our funds. 

Part of the "unspoken job description" is that one must hate foreigners. Regardless of one's personal feelings, you've got to hate and distrust foreigners to survive on Ebay and if this were my own business instead of Ken's I'd simply make it so I don't deal with anyone outside the USA. If you were a filthy foreigner, you'd better have had a Good Red-Blooded God-Fearing Patriotic American buy the thing from me and send it on to you. Of course now there are re-mailing services that where the seller only sees a US address. Those are fine with me. 

The other unspoken and thus iron clad rule is the Non-Compete I'm under. I can't set up my own Ebay business unless I were to do something like rent an office a suitable distance away, use a completely different computer on a different network, different email address, etc. And I'd still not be 100% sure Ebay wouldn't ban Ken and I for life. This is all Not Worth It so if I ever set up on my own, I'll wait until I'm back home 2500 miles away.

I got the things packed except one that I put in the requisite hours looking for and could not find, took the things to FedEx first for a large box, then went to Paris Baguette where I got a couple savory pastries and a coffee, ate and drank, then dropped off the post office packages at the post office, and got back here. Then  I just went to bed. 

I woke up at 4 in the afternoon thanks to my neat little Sharp alarm clock. Of all the alarm clocks I've had, going back to the wind-up Micky Mouse one with the two bells on top we kids used to get up in time for school, this one's the best.