Digressions

The Dancing Handiman

2009-03-08T22:13:00.001-04:00

My little darling Teani

2009-02-14T12:42:00.000-05:00

Teani
September 1999 ~ January 2009

In this picture, she appears very intent on something; it was a plate of pancakes.

I love you and miss you, Teani.

2008-04-30T00:39:00.000-04:00

The baby of five finally turned 18!

2008-04-11T13:27:00.000-04:00

Ryder unloading his bag. This is probably one of those pictures i don't want to show to his mother.

Goodnight, Bud.

2008-03-20T22:01:00.000-04:00

Goodnight, Bud. Your 74 years walking this earth will never be forgotten ~ you touched too many lives for that to happen.

http://www.memorialobituaries.com/memorials/memorials.cgi?action=Obit&memid=189935&clientid=atchle

Drama outside our office window

2008-01-08T00:00:00.000-05:00

Two hawks were fighting in the air a couple of days ago... one fell hard into the bush, feet first. Don't worry, Kitty's curiousity was all the motivation the hawk needed to escape his entanglement.

We GOT a check from Google!

2008-01-07T22:51:00.000-05:00

Woot! High Five! Those Google ads on the bottom of our website have really paid off for us ~ not only in terms of bringing the sweet little googlebot our way on a regular basis, but now in cold hard paper that deposits nicely in the bank.

It might be good to try different ad strings on some of our other pages, but all in all, i'm very pleased with how it's going. Try searching for vacation rental software in Google, and you'll see why we're so pleased ~ and we didn't spend any money! ...can't sit on our laurels, though, it's a daily effort to STAY on the first page (especially when it's done organically ~ without pay-per-clicks).

I don't care if Google runs our competitors ads ~ that's why i add a line of text above the ads that ASK our web visitors to "check 'em out". You know Eddie and i love every chance to stand up and overshadow Entech, First Resort, Property Plus, RDP, Escapia, Rental Network and ALL those other property management systems that were programmed by someone who's never been yelled at by a guest over a TV .

Note to self:

2007-12-31T17:26:00.000-05:00

Tina: don't make any new year's resolutions. You're under enough pressure as it is.

Slap us if we...

2007-12-31T00:07:00.000-05:00

...fall in to the corporate trap that we've recently eye-witnessed. The pattern we've seen over and over is one of growth, staleness ~ then implosion.

The culprit seems to be oblivious microcosmness. We've shaken our incredulous heads as we've wondered how some corporate giants have managed to stay alive even though they weren't aware that their pants were on fire.

We have actually had to say the words "why should we dumb down our software" to one company (who's initials are Pegasus) when they couldn't grasp the meaning of 'really real time'.

The fact is: the various corporate gangs will probably survive in mediocrity ~ never realizing how close they came to being great. Or worse, realizing too late that they were left behind.

The great ideas coming from their trenches will only be barely audible voices that are too little to matter. And, if they do embrace a hot idea ~ it's meetinged senseless into an unrecognizable ghost of the original ~ plus, now it's too late because t o o m a n y meetings took t o o l o n g...

So, do you promise to slap us? We don't want to get stale or implode.

Tina and Ryder Lee Ogle

2007-12-30T23:07:00.000-05:00

Reece Cannon has a first cousin: Ryder Lee. Ryder was 4 months old when these pictures were taken on Christmas day, 2007.

Tina and Reece Cannon Ogle

2007-12-30T23:03:00.000-05:00

Here is one of my darling grandkids, Reece ~ who will be six in February 2008!

Help us out! Review our software online! Pretty please...

2007-02-05T15:32:00.000-05:00

Would it help if i pointed out that the more installs we do, the better off you are ? What would it help, you ask? I was hoping it would motivate you to go to http://www.xomreviews.com/vacationrentalmanagementsoftware.com and fill out a short review of our software.

Feel free to add a link-back to your site in the comments box (the signature box isn't long enough for a URL).

Glad i was sitting down

2007-01-30T13:42:00.000-05:00

There is stunning news in my email, this morning! A short story i wrote and posted on www.DivineCaroline.com was chosen for the lead story on their launch day!

This all started when my little brother (who thinks he's so big now because he has a hotshot job in Europe as an executive with MySpace) sent me an email link to a new project that Laura (his precious wife) has been working on while her project was in BETA (you all know that BETA is one of my favorite words from me calling you and asking you to test run a BETA program).

Fiction would come easily to me (due to my wild wild imagination), but my real life has always been so much more interesting and way funnier than any fiction i could ever conjure up out of my brain.

They may have created a monster. You folks should join me in reading and publishing your own experiences in this new forum provided by Real Girls Media.

1099 Time

2007-01-27T16:39:00.000-05:00

It's that time of year, again, and some of you all are new to preparing and printing your owners' 1099s from TCSReservations.

You need to make sure you are using the FIX1099.exe for YOUR version. You either need the version marked 5.1 if you are using a version named 5.1.0.+ or the one marked 5.0 if you are using 5.0.0.+ (fill in the + with your build number). Go to Windows~>About in TCSReservations and there you will see your current version.

Once your data has been imported into your version of FIX1099, you can add, remove, change, edit, etc. anything you need to. Press the Insert key on your keyboard to add a new line.

There is a very nice step-by-step one page tutorial and both FIX1099 programs available for download at Support.ReservationsByTCS.com.

Welcome new members to the TCSReservations Family

2007-01-24T21:26:00.000-05:00

We actually found a use for my old whiteboard. It became evident that Eddie, Dustin and i needed something "on the wall" to help us keep track of several new installs.

We've met Grizz and Lyn from Dale Hollow Lake (Jamestown) Tennessee, Anita Carey who lives in Rochester, New York (it's always snowing up there when i talk to her), John from Glacier Park, Montana, Steve and Philip from the island of Cyprus, Greece, Vic and Cameron who are operating out of Walland, Tennessee, and then our old friend, Tommy Goolsby, who is new in the overnight rental business up the street from our house.

We installed Tommy the same way we installed the Cyprus folks ~ working from home in our pajamas!

The Debut

2007-01-22T09:39:00.000-05:00

This was intended to be published by noon on January 21, 2007. Intense 50th birthday activities seemed to interfere with this goal, but here it is now published on January 22nd.

Let's talk.