A writers ramblings…By David Spangenburg
Sunday, August, 17th, 2:12 am…
……I’m still awake and locked into the tube. I keep channel hopping between the Olympic women’s beach volleyball and the Weather channel. May and Walsh are slamming it out with the Brazilian team and all the while tropical storm Fay is skulking about south of Cuba, getting ready to sneak in my back door.
My wife, Kate and I and Hazel (a friend) went out to see Tropical Thunder (seems apropos), Ben Stiller’s new dark comedy/action film. We saw it at the Cinema Café in Clearwater FL. It’s a great place, a restaurant inside a movie theater. You order food and drinks and kickback at café tables in stuffed swivel rockers on wheels. The movie was really great. Started out strong, laid back a little while it set up the scene and introduced the characters but once it shifted into gear again it was action packed and funny as hell, if you like your comedy dark. Especially Robert Downey Jr., who was notably dark! I don’t like to be a spoiler but I will say the Panda scene was a real shocker! We shared three appetizers, a pitcher of Amber Bock and a good time was had by all!
When we get home, we turn on the Weather Ch to see what Fay’s been doing. Fay is being Fay, still undecided about her direction in life. This is the first hurricane watch for us since we moved to Florida from California, almost two years ago. I must say that everyone here in St Petersburg seems blasé about Fay. No one seems anxious about preparing for a landfall. They seem to be in a wait and see mode. Not ones to over react, we’re more concerned if it’ll be over by Wednesday so we can go to Disney World for our anniversary vacation. My magic gut, says we’ll be fine.
So anyway, I’m watching May and Walsh and the Brazilian team, pretty much hypnotized by the action. There’s something about bikini clad women sweating, grunting and diving in the sand that piques my interest. Every commercial break I tune in Fay. When May and Walsh finally beat the Brazilians I decide to check my email before I join Kate in dreamland.
I got an e from Michael and Terry, saying that there’s a lot of excitement out the across the net about a big launch coming out this week. Kevin Wilke and Matt Gill, from Nitro Marketing, just released their Quattro Sales System and Automation Software.
M and T attached a couple of advance e’s from Nitro which explained the process.
“Quattro is a 4-step system.” “It compresses the lifetime value of the customer and gives you a HUGE increase in both the immediate value and life-time value. It basically puts the old “backend” theory of marketing (which is true, btw) on steroids and takes it from a horizontal process to a vertical process.”
“This is the fastest way for you to get a successful online business up and MAKING MONEY.”
It sounds great to me! However, “steroids” and “vertical” have brought me full circle and I leave the office and head back to the bedroom TV and the Olympics. No more beach volleyball, so I check in on Fay. She’s still tormenting Fidel and I’m finally tired enough to hit the sack, as they say, so I turn down the volume, set the sleep timer and drift into dreamland to the soft murmurs of the meteorologists……………………..
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