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How many times have I complained (or just commented) about being soooo busy? I don’t even know. Ever since I left SCO and went back to school, I recall thinking quite often “I can’t possibly be any busier than this” but it’s not true. I think there’s some mathematical equation we could come up with that will tell you how much busier you could be without exploding at any given moment.

But that’s not what I’m really worried about. What I’m really concerned with is keeping the bills paid and keeping Main10 growing. A little while ago I came to the conclusion that I couldn’t do both. I’m not willing to just throw in the towel and give up on it just because it needs more money to keep growing.

So I did the next best thing, I removed myself from the payroll so that the company could use that money better. Course that doesn’t exactly help me with the “paying the bills” part of my goals does it?

So, the solution: I started a day job. I get to work early and work through lunch so I can leave and get to Main10 before the close of business. Everyone has done a really good job at picking up some of the slack so that the company can still function correctly.

Bottom line? Yes once again, I am busier than I think I have ever been. And am I sooo busy that I couldn’t fit anything else? Sure seems like it. But I am determined not to let golf suffer (too much anyway) this summer. If I have to get up at 6:00 AM on Saturday so I can go hit a bucket or something then I guess that’s just what I’ll have to do. So what else can I add? I’m almost afraid to ask.

So I actually watched the Mac keynote yesterday. After I watched the play-by-play on mac rumors live. and I caught my self several times being excited like the people who were actually present. All I can say is “wow”. I don’t know how they can pull it off time after time after time. They let all the rumors build and build and then somehow, they don’t disappoint. and the whole thing has the feeling of a rock concert. Something like what the Monkeyboy could only dream of.

And I was actually thinking of doing a blog post on how the iPhone saved me $20 to $50 the other day and saved the day completely.

Ok, fine. so I’ll tell it.

So my wife has a bunch of plants that she started from seed and grew in the window starting in February. And she has weeded them out (no pun intended) so that we only have the best ones to plant in the garden when it’s finally ready. Well all we have this really REALLY bad clay. All the advice I have received is to blend in LOTS of mulch. Like a trailer full. Problem is, I don’t have a trailer and I don’t want to buy one just to pull mulch. So my good neighbor comes over and says, “Hey I have my brothers trailer for a couple days, you wanna borrow it?” So we say yes. We’ll have it through Saturday. Perfect.

So Saturday we had this big expedition planned to go to the landfill and buy some mulch. So we get there, it closes in 30 minutes. So Yanilza runs up to the front of the line of trucks and trailers to make sure we’re in the right place for mulch. Yes we are, except they are out of mulch. They say that the one in Provo has some. “Great, where’s that?”

So as we take off to find the Provo landfill, I think to my self, “Self, what if they are out too?” So I pull over and whip out the trusty iPhone. – map search landfill. No results for Provo. Hmmm There’s a place in South Jordan. – called them (by tapping the phone number in the listing. How easy is that?) They’re out too. Not finding any luck with maps. – jump to Safari. – Google “Provo landfill”. Bingo! There’s the website. Who would have thought that a landfill would have a website?

Ok, so turns out, that the Provo landfill is no longer really a landfill. It’s a giant pile of dirt with a road up to the top were they accept green refuse and sell mulch. Lots of mulch. They even had this cool mulch plus – the upgraded mulch. It comes with fertilizer.

And as I’m sitting there, driving down the road with my load of crap (with old wood and dirt mixed in) I realize that I never would have found this place, I would have had to find a different trailer, I would have wasted half a tank of gas $$$$$ driving around looking for a dump or driving up to another dump without any mulch.

How much money did my little technological wonder just save me? I haven’t really added it up but I suppose I could. I’d just whip out my trusty iPhone with it’s ever useful calculator and figure it out.