In all my blogging, I have tended to focus on the side things of life. I mention a business here and there because they are hobbies - much like all the posts about movies. I realized recently that what I haven't mentioned at all is REAL business! The REAL business that I am in is computer services. My best friend Davad Sneed and I run a company called Technical Services Consulting (TSC.) It is a full-service technology company that helps our clients get the most out of their computers.



How do we do that? Well, primarily by keeping them running. No technology is useful if it doesn't work and our primary goal is keeping the customers' equipment up and running. When a client has a computer issue, a service call is made and their problems are solved. Dave is in charge of the operations and I run the back end accounting and marketing. We outsource some of the work to subs that we have worked with for years and can trust. In addition to the repair and maintenance, we can do everything from cabling for networks and phones to setting up the entire network - server and all. We offer consulting services for our clients to assist them in choosing the right technology and to make sure the transistion will be as smooth as possible.

We have a steady customer base of clients that have been with us for a long time. They stay with us because at the end of the day, we really do care about their issues. We do not just punch a clock and forget about them. They know more than anything they can count on Dave as he is the face they see most often. Our practice grows steadily and slowly because we are not interested in growth for the sake of growth alone. (Been there - done that) Instead, we are interested in adding quality clients who can benefit from our services.

At times it seems from reading these posts, all I do or all I care about are these side things like mystery shopping, filmmaking, movies, etc. That couldn't be farther from the truth. The bottom line is that I just have an active home life. I don't watch much TV, I don't sleep much, my hobbies are these side things. Some people are bowlers, some people watch a lot of TV, some people are serial entrepreneurs that must keep balls juggling to feel alive... that is me. No matter where the other ventures lead, TSC - its future incarnations, or at the very least - Dave, will always be a huge part of that adventure. You are given one or two REALLY good friends in your lifetime and when you find one you need to hold on.

I am not saying any of this because Dave occassionally reads the blog - he already knows where he stands. I am saying it more because I have a lot of readers who don't know where he stands and might not even know he exists. They need to know that everything I do exists 'because' of friends like Dave and if there is one lesson hidden among all these mindless rambling posts - it is probably best stated by a poem I wrote a long time ago:

Friends are FOREVER,
A bond that NEVER breaks.
CARE and UNDERSTANDING,
Are what a FRIENDSHIP makes.


Friends are ETERNAL,
They LAST through thick and thin.
They LOVE you just for who you are,
And not for where you've been.


Written 1974 - Age 10

Hey, I know it is a little dorky and a lot mushy - but I was TEN YEARS OLD!

Another poet set his take on the subject to music and it is one of my favorite songs...

"I ain't lived forever but I've lived enough
And I've learned to be gentle and I've learned to be tough
I've found only two things that last to the end
One is your heroes the others your friends

Your heroes will help you find good in yourself
Your friends won't forsake you for somebody else.
They'll both stand beside you through thick and through thin
And that's how it goes with heroes and friends "

Heroes and Friends - Randy Travis
- posted by Chris @ 10:32 AM