Dear Friends,
You may have already observed our total lack of blogging lately. It seems my staff has decided we need to find flaws and make them go away and we need to do some upgrading. None of that seems to be out of the ordinary. Bloggers do it all the time. Apparently, they know what they are doing.
We are approaching from a short learning curve. I became suspicious when my staff started referring to “major surgery”. The concept of major surgery, has nothing to do with our physical health, I can assure you. As I understand it, it refers to whacking out some codes that are not doing what we intended.
If we suddenly drop off the face of the internet, you will know the “procedure” as unsuccessful. If we look very weird, hopefully it is fixable. Whatever happens we are not going to give up. We will remain calm and positive and everything will turn out fine in the end. Unfortunately, I cannot put a time frame on it.
Sage advice indicates we start back at the beginning and go from there. That being said, I want to show you where we were at the beginning:
Your friend,
Fisher
Dear Friends,
One day, just before the holiday rush, I got an important message in my email box. The mail was from a dog. As most of you already know, I am keen on giving advice to critters who have unresolved issues. This time the dog, Mr. Chewy, just wanted my opinion, not my advice. As you may know, I usually have an opinion about everything. This dog got my attention!
Disclosure 1: Mr. Chewy said we could could use a $50 coupon for reviewing his site and posting it on our blog. Heck yes!
We gathered around the computer to check out his site – staff woman, Wart, Scooter, and me. Wart uses a certain litter and food to ward on using the box and ward off tossing his cookies. I am just a satisfied cat, easy to please. Scooter said she would take a look with the rest of us. Scooter, we determined is somewhat of a scanner because her input capacity lasts about 10 seconds. I have the final say-so on what we order.
OK, ready to view the website with great hope of finding what we all wanted. The site is self-contained and very easy to follow. We skipped the dog sections, but I am sure they are equally abundant with great choices. Wart’s litter was there so he demanded it, I agreed and my staff chose the 37lb bag. Staff woman really liked the neat package of canned gourmet food, with flavors like “Cowboy Cookout”, “Southern Delight”, and “New England Boil”, all of which brought back memories of her favorite places – not that she gets to eat any of it! I picked out a package of gourmet treats, just because I like the idea of gourmet treats. And, Scooter…Scooter? Where is Scooter? Egad, cat.
We were having such a good time and checked out. Oops! This is where everything could have come to a complete stop. The staff forgot to put in the promo code when she charged the order. Oh, no! She decided to call Customer Service to cancel it immediately and start over. It was on New Year’s Day and what were the odds of anyone in CS answering the phone?
A good omen for the New Year 2012: The phone picked up immediately and the “sweetest young woman” cancelled our order and put it through again with the promo code. Best customer service experience in the last decade, for sure! (Note that memory does not go back past 10 years.)
We ordered on January 1st and received the food package on the 3rd, and the 37lb litter package on the 4th – right to our front door! We are hooked on Mr. Chewy!
Disclosure #2:
Staff woman as cat
Disclosure #3: Mr. Chewy did not ask us to become a regular customers – we choose to be regular customers!
A huge array of great products!
Your friend,
Fisher
Fisher: Hey Wart. Wake up. Today is the day we need to turn in our New Years resolutions.
Wart: What are you talking about?
Fisher: I told you we got a memo, remember?
Wart: I thought you’re the boss of operations around here.
Fisher: Well yes, of course I am, but we need to humor her.
Wart: Where’s Scooter? She has to if I do!
Fisher: We will do ours and then find her. I will start.
Fisher: New Years 2012 – I resolve to be better about helping my staff with the work she does on my behalf. And I resolve to get back to my advice column, and learn about G+, and I also promise to not just whop you for no apparent reason, and I will try to teach Scooter how to focus. OK. Your turn.
Wart: My aren’t you a chatty catty today. OK, I should be nicer. My resolution is to listen to your advice when you give it to me (whether I ask for it or not.) That’s enough, right?
Fisher: I guess so (and I choose to believe you mean it.) Let’s go find the kid….
Scooter. Scoooooter. It is time to make your New Years resolution….
I already did and I resolve to be free to be me!
My friends,
I have no idea what “there is a pony in there somewhere” means, but my staff woman says it often. I hear it a lot lately when she walks into her office.
Do you know what it means?
Your friend,
Fisher
not a creature was stirring
But on Christmas morning, the gifts were discovered and we are happy cats!
nom nom nom. Santa was here!
from Fisher, Wart, Scooter, and Jobi
Dear Friends,
My good friend Matt over at pet364 just sent me a cool Christmas surprise – “The 12 Dogs of Christmas.” I am so pleased with his good dose of Christmas spirit, I thought I would add a little twist at the end of my post. (And, no…it is not that kind of spirit with a twist.)
The 12 dogs of Christmas graphic was created by Pet365 – a UK stockist of brands like Hamish McBeth who make leather dog collars.
OK, here is the twist. All non-canine critters, let us gather together and see what we can come up with. I will start with Day 3 = 3 tuxedo kitties. Use the comments to add yours and if we have multiples on any (or all) of the days…well, the more the merrier!
Your friend,
Fisher
