Well Tom your machinest is not exactly wrong. Except that to a certain extent the individual makes his own coincidence and circumstances.

Pricing or estimating jobs properly and landing them is a little more difficult and demanding than many on the street would realise. Even from the perspective of being a preffered contractor.

The current arrangement sounds like it may enjoy a long term productivity. The contractor is right in that familiarity with the inside of purdue people and methology is a positive factor usually.

As you also enjoy this aspect of your business is also a very positive factor. With a little good coincidence it may also grow. Most people preffer to deal with someone they know rather than strangers as well.

One way or another it sounds like a good and self enabled transition from purdue. Older guys where once obsolite from societies perspective. That is either no longer true or some of us seem to be able to capitalise on the so called aging thing.

Perhaps society has smartened up and now realises that years and years of experience are prefferable to less. Even if some age related things seem to some as handicaps. We perhaps have already made misteaks we are not as likely to repeat. Our insite has further developed as well and usually only time can enable that,.

It seems that everything I touch these days has a possible commercial spinoff if I want it. Why this was not so in earlier times I kind of understand. The pressures and stresses involved with what I was always engaged in did not allow the time to slow down and reflect or visualise properly.

I have no choice now but to delagate things as I wil not commit the time and effort for some of them.

An ex employee told me years ago. To stop working as I was doing and just tell or delagate to others what to do if it allowed me more time to visualise things. He felt that approach would ultimatly create a lot of jobs.

Today I get a glimpse of what he meant. We really do not need the money so the motavation has to be something else to move forward with any of them. I found myself just relaxing at the beach this summer for example with the wife and family dogs plus plenty of guests. Certain things on the plate did not get done. Next year I may follow with the same program.

One friend and two aquaintances passed away in the last week or so. A lady at 52, a good friend at 65, and another lady in her early 60s. It makes or heightens awareness that being here is not forever. Plus you basically have no control of it.

Yet activity even if forced of a compedative nature in commerce is still required to maintain the mind such as it is. I am a believer to not do these things is a dangerous thing. Simular to not using your muscles. They will just atrophy.So can the mind. That is the motavation to always be doing something to me that has some challenge or other..I also appreciate my wife stayng active on many fronts as well.