Things began like any other day, with the kids catching the school bus and Mara going off to work. Luckily she took the Escalade. She didn't know it then, but with everything that would happen that day it was probably what saved her life. When the Data Recovery was finished, and the Escalade was finally returned, we were in shock. The sky was bright blue in the morning, and after Mara left, so did I. My drive is much shorter, so I always take the Honda. All of a sudden the wind started blowing out of the southwest, big gusts. I didn't think anything of it. If I would have put the radio on, like I did every morning, I would have known about the tornado, as I found out later that the warnings were everywhere . But I had an audio book in. Mara had just gotten to town and the thing hit right in the center of downtown. It ripped down Main and over to fourth street. The tornado took off part of the Nieman Marcus building as well as the Trump Tower . Mara slammed on the brakes and ditched the Escalade. She ran into the old bank building, which is why she is alive today. It was about 10 days later when we got the Escalade back. What a mess.
I couldn’t have been happier for Joe, his business was doing really well . We sold more cars last year than any other dealer in the Madison area. The one downfall of winning such a great award as a car salesman is, how does one retain customers . We kept on meeting and discussing the most inexpensive ways of getting some sort of computer system, on which we could keep everyone’s names, addresses, date of purchase, and all that. Currently we’ve been keeping yellow copies of the purchase and warranty receipts in folders marked alphabetically. As of lately, business has been so great that we don’t have much room left to keep these paper copies, all of the files and folders in the office and storage rooms are full ! Joe and the other salespeople have been racking their brains. What the most frustrating part of all of this is, is that we know what needs to be done, but everyone is offering to do it for an astronomical price, that we definitely cannot afford . One lazy afternoon we had a guy walk in with a briefcase, looking very professional . He introduced himself as Mike Tervey and told us that he had our Data Storage Solution. He showed us the outline of the database he could implement for us and referred us to a store nearby where we could purchase the hardware. It was so easy! Hopefully we impressed him enough with our skills that he will come to us when he needs a new car . Has anyone seen the coffee machine?

My friend is seriously obsessed with his music, he could not stop telling me all about it . He’s got over 30,000 artists and tunes on his computer. I’m lucky if I can download anything on mine, but I usually play compact discs anyway. I couldn’t believe Brian’s collection. He doesn’t have any particular taste in music, so his collection can be impressive to anyone with any taste in music . His taste in music ranges from The Beatles to New Kids on the Block to Death Cab for Cutie to Nirvana to Aerosmith to Billy Holiday . “This is the perfect Data Storage Solution!” He wailed, pronouncing the last two words very slowly and emphatically.