Check in's here are getting longer and longer apart

[Jim Davis <Madno@xxxxxxx>]

Well, I'm not checking in here as often as I used to. Other than Mark ( who=
 barely posts) I'm the only one left still doing alarms.=20
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I'm guessing Les is lying on the beach someplace with a drink with a little=
 umbrella in it, reminiscing about conquests by looking at all the young li=
ttle sweeties in their bikini's walking by.=20
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Doing a lot of service calls. Lot's of my systems are getting older and old=
er (like me). Smoke's keypads, contacts all needing replacement. Doing odds=
 and ends mounting and setting up people's smart TV's , computer networks, =
app's on cell phones for the technically challenged. Customers doing renova=
tions, need rewiring. Trying to get everyone to arm/disarm their systems fr=
om their phones. ( Using Napco Starlink Connect cellular devices) The main =
hangup for most is having to pay more per month for the cellular service. B=
ut if it cost me more it's gotta cost them more. But my monthly monitoring =
income is increasing and just did an across the board increase.=20
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Cost of doing business is just going out of sight here in New York. Conditi=
ons in Manhattan are not good and the Sanctuary City crap is starting to mo=
ve to the suburbs. I don't know how the suburbs got included with the NY Go=
vernor and NY City Mayor declaring NY City was a sanctuary city. They unlea=
shed this monster and now it's too late for them to take it back. So now th=
ey're pushing at the boundaries of the surrounding suburbs to house illegal=
s. I'm thinking that if I wash up on shore on the Riviara In France and cla=
im immunity that maybe they'll put me up at the Hilton right on the beach. =
I can't imagine what these hotels in Manhattan are having to deal with. Not=
 a person I talk to that's been in Manhattan isn't totally disgusted with p=
eople living on the streets and being constantly approach for handouts and =
having to deal with the smell of excrement in the streets and subways.=20
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Hoping my area doesn't go to hell in a hand basket before I check out. Gott=
a get somebody in office who isn't beholding to their contributors that'll =
influence their national decisions after they're elected as has been the no=
rm in this country too long. On the other hand, I think that anyone smart e=
nough to get us out of the trouble this nation is in, is WAAAY too smart to=
 run for office. We're seeing what politicians who have everything to lose =
can do to anyone they want to discredit.
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But anyway, I'm not looking to cash out of this trade just yet, but age bei=
ng the predictor I'm guessing the  Times-a-commin,  =20
Hope you guys are doing ok,