Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

3 Letters for business communication


Letter of request: Requesting a meeting with someone from a houseing contractor

Dear John and John,

We recieved your letter inquiring about our services and ability to fit the needs of your company. We at Automation Concepts think that this would be a great partnership.

I have enclosed the information you have requested. In addition we would like to invite you to see what the latest technology can add to experiance of the perfectly built home.

Feel free to call on us when you are ready to meet and discuse our future oppertunities blah blah...that doesnt sound quite right...


Claim letter:

To whom it may concern,

Upon receiveing and inspecting our recent order of 10 50 inch Sanyo LCD TV's, it has com to our attention that 3 of the ten were not the correct model and were of a slightly smaller size.

Checking our packing information shows that a quantity of 10 of the model number 50LTV06 were to be recieved. inspecting the boxes shows that 3 were model number 36LTV06.

We refused shipment of the 3 36LTV06 and hope that the 3 50LTV06 TV's can be shipped oto us in a timely manner.


Adjustment letter:

Monday, March 27, 2006

On the board again...

Joe, who I have only briefly meet once: yeah, so I am going to this skatepark in Allentown, do you want to go. Me: Yes

Was there really any other answer to that question? I guess the exchange was actually a bit different more of him telling me how to get there as if I did not have a choice. I do have a choice... OK, I don't have a choice. What I have is a weakness for skateboarding. Given the opportunity I will choose skating over just about anything at all. Its really not a choice actually. Its more of a calling, or even a beckoning...



Anyway... So I went to PennSkates. It has two sections. The bigger section has the back and forth set up you might see in X-Games type environment. The problem here is that the bikers didn't respect the flow that the park could of had. They just sat on one of the main middle platforms so they could hit this huge jump area... There was a little bit of the back and forth that the skaters were on. It had two smaller ramps that you could ollie over and down and then hit the big wall ramp and come back to the starting. Then there was a big wooden pool, very intimidating for me... That's were the guy that invited me skated most... Anyway lets back up a bit.

When I first go there I had to buy a kingpin and in my crazy haste to put it together I put the baseplate on backwards... It felt like it took forever to get it together... So I tested the tightness by going over the small ramps a couple times and getting the truck back to what I liked. Then I heard some one calling my name and found that Joe had found me by looking for an older skater... shheshh

He was up at the pool. I avoided the flying bikes and got up to the pool deck. We said our Hi's and I took look at the pool and missed my kneepads alot. He said did you go back to the mini yet? I looked around. It's down in back he said. Thats were I will be. I went down this slopey slate thing and into the back room. It was a sad little area that looks like it had been rearanged to fit the mini ramp into. It looks nothing like the picture on there site. It may have been a fun spot with out the mini ramp but everything had been moved around and made an akward little spot in back of the mini were little kids could try to hit the grind bars but it was only like 20 feet worth. next to the mini they had a little back and forth set up with a small not-so-fun box in tthe middle.

The mini was nice. I could feel the couple kinks which through me a couple times at first. Also one side of the coping near the wall was sticking out more than other places and it killed me everytime I would go up to do a truck stall. Actually it would stop just about anybodys run once they hit it. I got right back in to the skating rythim though. HItting some nice smiths and jsut haveing a good time. The only other people skating the ramp were other in there late 20's and 30's.

It was a very good time Joe said he would let me know when they were going to go out and I was free to joing them anytime...


Tuesday, March 21, 2006

A Good Will Letter for my Fantasy Company...

Again , this is a goodwill letter from our fantasy company project.


1st draft


Dear John Doe,

It has come to our attention that a you were responsible for putting J&J Housing Contractors in touch with us. We would like to extended our thanks.

As you may know J&J Housing Contractors has many exciting cutting edge housing projects under way. By way of your recomendation we have been invited to setup and supply the technical automation of at least one of these projects. This is a great new avenue for our company to head in and can only help to grow our business.

To extend our thanks we would like to invite you to choose any add-on for your current system and we will supply it free of charge. You can contact my self or my partners at 800-666-7777.

Thank you again,

Chris Faulkner
Automation Concepts.
Co-Founder

Thursday, March 16, 2006

Goodbye SunRocket, Hello Skype and Welcome back Verizon

www.sunrocket.com , www.skype.com , www.verizon.com , www.fandango.com

Well SunRocket turned out to be unrelieble for our needs. I will still use them if was just me. I would still recomend them, @ $20 a month its hard to beat. I made sure to cash in my 20 bonus points for $10 in fandago gift cards

I installed SKYPE on my iPAQ and bought $10 in Skype-out minutes. Since I used PayPal they gave me an extrea 3 minutes. So during lunch I drove to an open hotspot near by, I think it is the World Gym, and called Sarah. The fist call was really choppy and realy could not talk. I turned on the auto-gain and tried again. this tie it was very acceptalble and the quality will more than suite my needs for a quick call home from school or my secret hotspot near Genardis ;o)

We are going back to our old Verizon phone number. I never really let it go since we had to have the line to keep the DSL and we used it for a back up to Sunrocket. So it was like $12 just for the line plus Sunrockets $20. The freedom package from verizon is @$40 so it will be @$20 more. In removing all the extra phones and Sunrockets phone adapter I did get rid of 4 extra things plugged in. 2 phones, and answering machine and the Gizmo (sunrockets phone adapeter).