Things began like any other day, with the kids catching the school bus and Mara going off to work. Luckily she took the Escalade. She didn’t know it then, but with everything that would happen that day it was probably what saved her life. When the Data Recovery was finished, and the Escalade was finally returned, we were in shock. It was a gorgeous morning in Chicago, without a cloud in the sky so I didn’t mind taking the mini-coupe . My drive is much shorter, so I always take the Honda. All of a sudden the wind started blowing out of the southwest, big gusts. I didn’t think anything of it. If I would have put the radio on, like I did every morning, I would have known about the tornado, as I found out later that the warnings were everywhere . Unfortunately I was not listening to the radio, instead I was listening to an audio book . Mara had just gotten to town and the thing hit right in the center of downtown. The tornado made a path of destruction through the epicenter of downtown . The tornado took off part of the Nieman Marcus building as well as the Trump Tower . My wife stopped the car in the middle of the road and ran into an old building to hide in the basement, which thankfully saved her life . Almost two weeks later they found the Escalade and returned it in the condition it was in, which it might as well have been a matchbox .
I couldn’t have been happier for Joe, his business was doing really well . It was doing so well in fact that he won an award for selling the most cars in Wisconsin in one year . The only problem was how to keep all these great customers. We decided that we needed a computer system to organize all of the customers information, where we would know where they live, what they bought, and how long ago they bought it . Currently we’ve been keeping yellow copies of the purchase and warranty receipts in folders marked alphabetically. Recently, though, we’ve obtained so many new customers that we’re running out of room, both in the folders and in the office! We have all racked our brains on what we need to do and how we should do it . What the most frustrating part of all of this is, is that we know what needs to be done, but everyone is offering to do it for an astronomical price, that we definitely cannot afford . Then, one afternoon, a young man wearing a suit and tie and carrying a briefcase walked into our dealership. He introduced himself as Mike Tervey and told us that he had our Data storage. He mapped everything out for us and even suggested a store that we could buy the software from, he was amazing with us and I don’t think we could have pulled any of it off without him ! Hopefully we impressed him enough with our skills that he will come to us when he needs a new car . As for right now, we are still searching for the espresso machine.

“Look at this, will you!” Brian was pretty stoked about his music. He’s got over 30,000 artists and tunes on his computer. I have an outdated computer so I am happy if I have the opportunity to download music, let alone pictures and such . I couldn’t believe Brian’s collection. He doesn’t have any particular taste in music, so his collection can be impressive to anyone with any taste in music . He loves every one of them, from the New Pornographers to Death Cab for Cutie and back. “This is the perfect Data storage!” He wailed, pronouncing the last two words very slowly and emphatically.