My side business has had some interesting changes in the last few months, in August we got our own space, an office in Saint Paul with access to a conference room for bigger classes. We have been teaching fairly regularly, although not quite as much as I need to be able to stay in the black. In an effort to diversify what we offer I set up agreements to be a drop shipping dealer for several companies that handle first aid and tactical supplies. This I hope will help by being a revenue stream outside of classes we teach, I did have to spend a bit of money in order to get things set up, so I am a little worried about that part of things, but at the end of the day I know I can sell everything at cost if needed and move on from there.

I am changing how I do my permit to carry classes, switching from a scheduled 8-hour class to 4 hours, which is better in line with the time it takes me to go through the information. I have set up my first Advanced first Aid class for late March, hopefully, the snow will be out by them so we can work outside. I am getting ready to start with my Korstog created courses, although I haven’t had a chance to schedule one of those yet, it’s coming. I need to find some committed folks who want to be instructors because I can send them out to do classes while still bringing in some revenue; unfortunately, the people who have said they want to be instructors have not panned out.

I am rapidly realizing I need a vacation, one where I don’t have to interact with anything or anyone so I can get my head screwed on straight, makes me wonder if going to the holiday inn down the street for a day and a night to spend some time writing and avoiding outside stimuli is appropriate, mostly because I don’t actually want to go very far, I could also just finish cleaning my garage, or the spare bedroom so I can go there and work on things. heck, I could just bite the bullet and get a comfy office chair and go there for a while, eat cereal and work on projects I have been setting on the back burner for years. I also need to fix our stairs at home, a task I am both looking forward to but also dreading. I am considering doing that over the Christmas holiday, especially if I can get Mrs. ZM and Little ZM out of the house. lots to deal with i guess