What a Beautiful Weekend

The weather has been amazing the last three days. The sun has been shinning, blue skies and it's been about 50 degrees (10C). It felt warm to me so for the last three days there were no layering of clothes. I opened up my bedroom windows and let the cool breeze come in.

I spent Saturday checking out the tiny state of Delaware. Delaware was the 1st of our 50 states. It is an interesting state. It takes about 4-5 hours to drive from the top to the bottom and about 3 hours to drive from the southeast side to the southwest side. The farther you go south in the state the more farm land you find.

Delaware is a sales tax free state. I went to the Christiana Mall. That mall has every store under the sun. I haven't seen so many people at a mall since Clinton was president! It was wild!

The state of Delaware has income tax and it is 5.95%, which isn't really all that bad. That tiny little state makes almost all of it's money off of franchise corporate fees. Delaware has the most favorable "blue-sky" laws. Which are laws for taking a company public. Hence, the big players are Delaware corporations; Google, Apple, Sony, to name a few.

There is also a huge retirement community in Delaware which I thought was surprising.

I wanted to go back next Saturday and check out some more, however, the weather websites are calling for snow next Saturday in Pennsylvania and Delaware. I wish I could say that the weather man might be wrong, but with technology today they seem to be up with their game and pretty accurate.

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I'm Gearing Up for My Next Move

One more last move. That doesn't mean that my world will stop revolving. It just means that I will finally have a home base that will not need to be relocated. I will be able to hang the pictures on the walls and know that I will only have to move them should I really want to, not because I have to move.

Once that I get settled into my home I plan to kick up the traveling a bit. And I am super excited about that.

I was thinking that it would be great to be all moved into my new home my Memorial Day weekend! That is the weekend that I left California and also the same weekend, almost 24 years ago, that I first moved to California. How appropriate to be moving into my home.

I don't think that I am going to stay in Pennsylvania. My work with the state of Delaware has increased significantly since I moved to the east coast. I am considering making a move to that state.

Yesterday I began going through boxes and deciding what will actually make it to my new home. Not much, that I know for sure. I got enough stuff together, for Salvation Army, to fill my car trunk twice.

BTW, did you know that there is a Salvation Army in Queenstown, New Zealand? I had no idea that they were world wide. I was in Queenstown, New Zealand in December 2008, right around Christmas and the guy was standing outside of the store with his bell and red kettle, just like they do here in the states. I thought that was wild!

The skies are blue and the sun is shining down on the white ice and snow. This winter season has been one that I have never ever experienced before.

Ciao

Greetings from Delaware

My road trip did not go as planned. It's really no big deal. I have found that the key to living a smooth life is to be flexible and go with the flow no matter where that flow may lead you.

I was sitting in the airport in Los Angeles waiting to get on my flight and my phone kept ringing. It was actually my work phone that I transferred to my cell phone. A problem arose at the Delaware Secretary of State with my business. While sitting at the airport I decided that I would need to address this issue in person.

Since I was already packed and a formal business meeting wasn't what I had in mind, I had to find the appropriate business clothes in Pennsylvania before going to Delaware.

On Monday morning I arrived at the Delaware Secretary of State's office. It was nice to be able to put a face with the many voices and emails from the last 16 years.

After spending time at the Corporations Division I decided it would be beneficial to my business to set up a presence in Delaware and I spent the rest of the day doing just that. Upon my return to California I will formally qualify my business to do business in the state of Delaware.

Over all, the problem was one of those things that propels you and your business to another level quantum style. It was totally unexpected, however this time next week my business will be much better off had the problem not occurred.

Hummm..... funny how life works.... real funny....

The picture was taken at Rehoboth Beach in Delaware.

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