 And I'm back. I hope you guys found that enjoyable or at least not unenjoyable Again, I don't consider myself, you know the greatest, you know put name of whatever your favorite musician is here I'm not that guy most likely, but I do like creating stuff and I am happy with some of my work at least I pump out a lot But hopefully I didn't you know run off a bunch of you guys who who just thought that my music was horrible I just need a little break It's a long day So I'm just going through stuff found this recently It's a 256 megabyte flash drive Geek squad, you know best buys little thing I got this on the back. It has the date of manufactured date or copyright date of 2014 copyright copyright on I guess the look of this. I don't know Yeah, so I got this you know Over 15 years ago close to 15 years ago But I bring it up because one 256 megabytes and it probably cost me 25 bucks back then It's just amazing how far we've come and although I'm not a big fan of Geek Squad services because seriously Hmm gonna say this probably gonna insult some people out there I wouldn't trust these people with my computer if someone is good with computers They're not running around fixing other people's computers doing something useful with computers That being said anyway the Geek Squad There is one thing that I like about them and a few other products are like this And this is just one that I have on the back here. There's a little caution a warning this Geek Squad comm that says Despite being excellent for transporting files. This drive does not increase your capacity for mental telepathy Obviously a joke and true at the same time because you want to put something false on a product like this But I always found that funny that and there was a another one. It might have been the same product Maybe on the outside packaging. It said something like This this product is great for transferring files But should not be used as a flotation device and I love when companies have sense of humor like this Even though, you know, I'm not a big best buyer Geek Squad Fan, I just love companies that put little jokes like that take the time for humor and stuff 20 years ago. I was working for a company in town In an electrical company we install lights. I spent a little bit of time running wires But for most part I was programming the lights. They were Lutron systems, I believe is what they were called and I would you know program the lighting system so that Basically, I think I talked about this. I've talked about this before Every light in the house or each every set of lights were run to modules in the garage Or someplace usually the garage there where there's a panel and each panel would have these modules Usually two per panel and each module could handle it was either four or eight sets of lights And we had relay modules and dimmer modules and dimmer modules were a lot Both both were very expensive back at the time and again in my house I got little zap outlets Which cost about five bucks each where these things were I want to say our cost before we would charge for insulation and to the Cellars I think our cost was like eight hundred dollars per module not counting the panel and running in the wires and all that stuff And that was for the relays and the dimmer ones were more expensive Um Anyway, I think it was no it wasn't when I was working there. I'm complete. I was working somewhere Might have been Yeah, it was there. It was there. I went back into the warehouse. So I worked for an electrical company We you know install lights and I did the programming when you press this button turn on these sets of lights Uh and dim them to this percentage over this amount of time. There's mostly data entry I wasn't really writing very much code or really any code. I used coding concepts You would do if then statements, but it was in drop downs I wasn't actually typing out the code although I could pull the the file it generated and see the code in there And I wish I knew more about programming back then but I used to mess with those files. That was fun anyway I go, uh I worked for this company and then there was the the sister company or the parent company Basically, there was this audio company. They did audio systems and houses And that company kind of bought the company I was working for and they were they were in one building So I go into the warehouse for this audio company and they have all this audio equipment And one of the boxes on the side It was for I know some audio device a receiver or something like that and it said it said on the side of the box Do not You know, this device is great for for audio output, but do not fry or saute this receiver or whatever it was And I looked at I go I go that is hilarious and whoever I was working with it goes Oh you this company you read through their owner's manual. It's just loaded full of stuff like that And I just love again when companies have sense of humor like this. What do you guys think? um, you know things like you know That this the usb drives great for transferring files, but uh, isn't good for increasing your mental telepathy capacity um If I ever owned a company of any type I would definitely do humorous stuff like that Obviously gotta be careful. You want to make sure that like this your statement is true Uh, you don't want to say something that could be uh portrayed as real and is not Obviously, obviously this is not going to increase my mental telepathy. It's a it's a true statement Uh going back to like uh geek squad and best buy it, you know back in the day back in the late 90s I worked for circuit city two different occasions one time in customer service one time in the computer department And uh, I was a horrible salesman uh for circuit city For those of you don't know what circuit city is. It's like a big radio shack No, what's funny is people used to get us mixed up with radio shack all time And they really were a very different radio shack was a very small place you go to get electronics You can buy uh, they would sell sell around a few of them. They would sell cell phones um and uh and Portable phones and radios circuit city had a department for that but we also, you know, we sold music We sold vacuum cleaners refrigerators circuit city did a little bit more. It was a best buy It was like a best buy best buy was our only real competition back then and there wasn't one here in town Now I live in Naples, Florida, uh, which is a very um Uh It's an expensive place to live. There's there's a lot of rich people here I kind of live way out in the outskirts of town Which I like because I got a big property for a lot less than if I was in town But we because of the the rich people around here That's one of the reasons we had the top one of the top stores top store in Florida One of the top stores in the u.s as far as sales for circuit city um and uh problem with that was uh a little bit after I started working there and we were the top store uh You know headquarters decided this is such a great store We're going to take each department manager and make them a manager at their own store Which in theory is a great idea But all that really ended up doing was turning our store into crap because we just started hiring managers off the street Who had no clue what they were doing uh to do certain to approve certain returns We would need a manager to swipe their card and type in their code And we had these managers who had no clue how our systems work because they were just hired off the street They didn't work their way up And so basically we would just call them over and they would you know go to swipe their card And then they look at the screen and they didn't know how the system works So half the time we just said swipe your card give me your code and I'll do this for you So the managers so our store kind of went to crap The the managers we had before were mostly very cool people They were great to work with which made it a great work environment Which is one of the things that made the store so great And again, they just separated them all out into different stores Which might be good for those other stores but turned our store into crap and again one of the main reasons The sales were so good is just because we lived in a good area for selling stuff And we didn't have competition the closest thing was a Best Buy up in Fort Myers, which was 45 minutes to an hour away So yeah, that's sir could say obviously they're all gone now, but it just it just went down hill after that And again theory, it's a good idea. This is a great store. The management was great Let's spread them all out But all it did was turn the store to crap and again sir can see isn't here anymore because I'm surprised Best Buy is around still I mean literally it's it's a place to go to test things out before you go buy it someplace cheaper Either online usually or even I much rather buy stuff at Walmart the return policy is better price is usually better But whatever So see a circuit city, you know, like I said, I worked there twice the second time I worked in sales first time I was in customer service second time in sales I only worked in sales for a couple of weeks. So the first week Working in sales is just training. So I'm back watching videos learning how to be a salesman Then they put me out on the floor and I was a horrible salesman and I worked completely off commission So I barely sold anything that first week. So when I got my paycheck what they did was They just brought me up to minimum wage, which sucked because that was one of two jobs at the time Another job I had was was down in the same shopping center working at g and c general nutrition center where I made nine bucks an hour Plus commission, uh, and I was averaging with the commission, you know, like 11 bucks an hour This is 20 years ago and I'm 18 19 years old. So, you know, 11 12 bucks an hour is pretty good And when I worked at g and c again, I was making nine dollars an hour I sell a 20 dollar bottle of vitamin vitamins I would make two dollars commission and usually it was buy one get one half price Uh And so you usually sold two so I would sell, you know, two bottles of vitamins I'd make four dollars on top of my nine dollars. Well, circuit city wasn't like that Circuit city was commission only and I could sell a two or three hundred dollar computer monitor And I would make a buck fifty, which was horrible. So that first week I didn't I didn't make it to a part and they had to pay me at least minimum wage Which was like I don't know 575 or something at the time. Well the next week I sold a little bit more I did a little bit better So I should have been a little bit above minimum wage Well, because I was below minimum wage the the paycheck before they took the difference out of this So I made minimum wage the second week. I was like, you know what? Goodbye Uh, but one of the reasons I I would consider myself not a good salesman Is I I didn't really upsell people I would if I felt like they needed it But this back and most people were still on dial up dial up, you know High speed internet was kind of a new thing, you know cable internet dsl Most people didn't have it But I would have these old people again I live in Naples where not only is there a large rich community. There's also it's also I think, you know, a majority of the people who live here are over 70 So I'd have these older people come in and they just want to be able to email and get pictures of their grandkids And they're on dial up And they would come in and be like, oh, I got this computer I want to upgrade to a faster computer so that I can download things faster I'd be like, well, you're on dial up Getting a faster computer is not going to make you download the images any any faster They might load a little bit faster once they're downloaded But but even then I mean back then loading a picture I mean most pictures if you had digital camera were, you know, vga resolution 640 by by um 480 So it didn't take long for pictures to load. They just took a while to download and I'd be like No, I really do not recommend buying a whole new computer because it's not going to make it any faster because your problem If everything's running fine, except for when you're downloading your email Upgrading your computer is not going to help because it's because you're using dial up and uh, and I felt like, you know, I was being honest also Uh digital cameras are relatively new. A lot of digital cameras were only vga But then the one, you know, the higher ones were 1.2 1.5 megapixels and uh, you know, I would Show people I had different cameras. I printed up using a printer Uh, a very nice hp printer at the time and showing the people the difference and it's like, okay So if I take a picture of someone's face with vga resolution or take the same picture with a 1.2 megapixels, you're not going to see much of difference now If you're taking pictures of people like a group of people that that one megapixel camera would make a bigger Difference in seeing the detail of people's faces, but a close-up shot like this, you know It's not going to make difference. I you know, I try to explain that to people and I talked about how the printer is really important back then You know, I love the hp printer. I have and I would always upsell that and that was that was That printer was probably like three four hundred bucks for for this hp printer back then and um I loved it. I loved it, you know Personally, I don't print photos anymore. It's cheaper just to get them printed somewhere like sam's club or something like that You don't have to worry about it messing up halfway through I mean, I didn't check the prices of of printer or Photo paper in years My price still have some in a Georgia's because I don't use it. I don't know. Do you guys do you guys print your own photos? I don't even keep up to date on technology on that. I mean back in the day So I had the inkjet printer printing photos problem with that is if it got wet at all The ink would run if you try to put it behind glass It would kind of stick to the glass you guys know what I'm talking about You print up an inkjet printer on photo paper You put it in a frame behind glass and the the ink would kind of stick to it So it looked if it you know places it would stick another it just didn't look right But at the time they started coming out with printers that would print a clear coat Over the images after printing some printers would do that and then they would have ones that would also Actually develop. I think it was sony had one where it would actually have chemical paper and like develop a photo on there I don't know what the technology is now. I mean Do do ink jets do is it normal for them to do coatings now? I don't I don't even know. I don't print photos Uh, I think it's just you know, most people just get them printed right if you're going to get it printed I mean at sam's club. It's probably under a dollar for an eight by ten Where at least back in the day a decent photo paper was over a dollar a sheet Plus the cost of ink which is expensive people complain about gas prices I mean think about how expensive you you spend, you know, I don't know 20 to 30 dollars easy on a little ink cartridge this big um So yeah printing so much better doesn't this isn't going to fade as much as the inkjet ones So anyway, I was talking the past working at circuit C was was awesome at least at first Um, but you know it got old after a while Uh, but yeah, so so yeah, I only worked a couple of weeks in as a salesperson Uh there and then I just said, you know what forget it and I was still working over at G and C Again making $11 or $12 an hour, which may not sound like that much in our days Since people are pushing for like minimum wage of $15 an hour Uh, I I don't even know minimum wage is what seven something an hour now Uh, so it's two dollars more so than it was back then But uh, yeah at 19 and I was only I was only working oh and then You know shortly after that I was still working at G and C Uh When I stopped working at G and C the next thing I did was was photography I used to do real estate photography around town. That was an awesome gig. Um I would charge 25 a job and you get five shots if the house was Over a million dollars You would get 10 shots and it would cost $50 if it was a certain distance from where I live I charge an extra $10 and there were some realtors like I remember this one husband and wife team they had There was this big high-rise condo where every single one of those condos was over a million dollars It was at the outskirts of town and they would call me up and I'd go do two or three of them at a time And I'd be done an hour. I just made 150 bucks easy Um, which was awesome and it was just digital I just dropped the discs off at the realtor office and they upload to their website and stuff um Then I eventually came to an end when at the same time back then they had the virtual tours Which were similar to like the sphere photos you do with google now and just the guys would go there They would have a wide angle camera and they would take all these shots put together and you go online They would have a little flash interface that you could look around the rooms And those people were already going out of the house is doing this like hey for ten dollars more We'll take your photos for you. I'm like, well, I'm not going to go out to people's houses for 10 bucks a pop You know, it's not worth my time. So that that was short lived. I did that for maybe a year And then and then I also made extra money at that time going working for the realtor Realtor office where after I would drop off the photos I'd actually come in and organize them in their database for them Which was something else I did And that was interesting because they had a printer there and it was big, you know professional grade printer and a computer when it was hp and you know, it would It was uh, it took toner, you know, it wasn't it wasn't inkjet. What do you call it when it takes toner? It's A laser jet laser jet. Yeah um, man, it would print photo it would print those forms fast and You know with photos little flyers and stuff and you know, it wasn't as good a quality as inkjet But it was pretty good and it you know could print I don't know 50 or 60 of them. It was like one a second something like that But I was told that the printer the copier itself was 20 or 30 thousand dollars And then you needed the hp computer to go with it, which was another 20 thousand dollars So we're looking at 40 50 thousand dollars worth of printing material and that thing broke every week I'd say every week to every other week. There was somebody in there, you know a technician fixing it I mean it got good use that thing was constantly printing Um, but I hate printers. I hate printers with a passion. I love computers. I hate printers I mean, there are times where you need physical copy stuff But if I can keep it digital that is awesome and if I need to print photos I much rather have someplace to print it and not have to worry about paper jams things aligning properly You know with the cost at ink Not using your printer for a while and the and the heads getting clogged up anyway so let's go inside and uh Look at something else. So I'm going along. What do we I don't even know what time it is. It's been what four or five hours now. I've been streaming here Okay Let's see