I know I haven’t done much writing this week. But I don’t have any progress to report on the Wellness and Strength front, and work has been busy, busy.
The exclamation point on the week is that we fixed our one big mistake. Several years ago, we bought a couple of inlets for a certain aircraft. We thought we could sell them pretty quickly, so we got ‘em and paid to have them certified.
They’ve been sitting here since. Today we finally sold one, which pays back the capital it took to buy and repair both. That’s a big shot in the arm for us, and totally out of the blue.
The other aspect of this particular transaction is that business in November and December was uncharacteristically slow. This is how things started for us in December 2007. Six months before the rest of the world figured out we were in a recession, our sales fell through the floor. I was getting a little concerned that we were starting that cycle again.
As it worked out, it’s just a hiccup. Things started picking back up in January on the sales side. Collections didn’t get any real help until late February. We went on an aircraft buying spree at the end of last year, so I was really sweating things in January and February.
But, just as March brings Spring, severe weather and Easter (at least this year), it is also bringing some much needed money, momentum and (at least for Yours Truly) peace of mind.
I’m getting too damn old to worry about money.