First off, my previous journal is heretofore countermanded. You can not make $20 by providing me with a sales for my chair business because effective several months ago, JGE Car Seat Chairs is out of business. We have some old stock that we are looking for homes for, but we are not interested in discounting them and I have to trust you will take care of them in the manner they deserve.

Second, nobody reads my journals anymore- and why should they? I haven't been exactly an active DA member for, oh, the past 3 years. Its not changing, by the way. I'm too bloody busy working on my next idea for, uh, making enough money to survive in at least abject poverty? xD Anyone who tells you that working for yourself is the way to easy street is smoking something potent. It is the way to self fulfillment for the iconoclast, however.

My idea for income has led to the founding of JGE Glove & Safety, a purveyor of quality work gloves and safety equipment at a fair price at flea markets. For the most part this one seems to be working. I operate out of Cowtown, Columbus, and until the end of the year, Englishtown on Saturdays.

Its an interesting business, to my mind. Obviously, there are other glove sellers at the various markets. But most of them aren't worth a damn, and they don't sell safety equipment. They just sell the crappy 10-packs of blue coated and red coated gloves, plus crappy dozens of jerseys and those crappy leather palms that hurt your hands when you put them on. I have decided to stake out my territory by not selling any of the above. I sell quality goods, period, and satisfaction is guaranteed.

In addition to work gloves, I sell eye protection (Z87.1+ compliant, btw), noise protection, FR clothing, and ANSI 107 compliant hi-viz clothing. I don't sell the crap on that, either. If there is a standard for what I sell, it meets it. Just because I'm a high quality seller doesn't mean I'm high priced. It does mean I'm low profit margin, but that's fine. Real money is made in business relationships over time. I might sell at a flea market, but I am not a flea market seller and I don't have the flea market mentality.

I don't screw people out of money. Sure, its a good way to make money today. I don't want to make money today, I want to make a living and a retirement over the next 20-30 years. To build a business, you need trust. To build trust you can't screw people. Why the idiots selling around me don't grasp this simple concept, I will never know.

Anyway, I'm alive, generally well (if, uh, diabetic) and generally happy (if stressed out and tired from 90 hour work weeks, egad).