Lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer

Where are the lazy days? I don't seem to have as much time to write in here in the summer. I'm running up and down the road during my lunch hours picking up my kids from summer camp and bringing them home. Then I rush back to work for the rest of the afternoon. I come home take my son to either soccer camp or boy scout camp, come home fix dinner. Before I know it, its after 8 pm. Meanwhile, I just want to lounge around the pool, bask in the sun and relax. But part of me wants to get into a project I am working on for after I terminate my employment in a few weeks.

Some of my current co-workers are "busy" taking vacations at periodic points during the summer. I know that a lot of New Yorkers go to the Hamptons during the summer and it is often impossible to make contact with them on Fridays (unless you have "personal" relationships with them and can call them on their cell phones.

What are your customers doing? Can you make deals during the summer, or are too many people away from their offices to get final approvals? I've been wondering how much business gets done before September. What sort of CRM program or analysis tracks when people take vacations and the optimum time to make a sale?

Costa Maya Dreaming

It must be all the Southern California rain today. I can't help but think of the sunshine in Mexico. Although I just had a vacation, one of the best vacations I ever had was at Mayan Beach Garden. Mayan Beach Garden Inn is located 20 km north of Mahajual. They had great cabanas and the food was excellent. Check out their recipe for chocolate molten cake and banana pancakes. Yum Yum. If cabanas aren't your style, the wonderful hosts there can help locate other places for you to stay. And speaking of wonderful hosts, Marcia and Kim are great examples of good customer service. They go out of their way to make your stay the best it can be.

More New Years Eve Photo

The day really was beautiful:

New Year's Eve

I went cross country skiing today with the family -- very good physical exercise. The area was beautiful. The sky was very blue and cloudless as I looked at the gorgeous snow-covered mountain and snow filled trees.

This vacation is wonderful -- except when I keep thinking about work and waking up in the middle of the night and thinking about the back-log that I will be facing. O Happy New Year!