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If you’re in the market for a new or refurbished AS/400 system, iSeries or i5 then you need a reliable company to provide it for you.

Whilst it’s easy enough to buy new, if you want a refurbished AS/400 or iSeries machine then it’s vital that you can depend on the company that you source it from. This means that you’ll need a company with experience of refurbishing midrange hardware and that can help you with the small but difficult to solve problems in areas such as device addresses and cabling through to the more complex end of the scale.

We just had one of these days when everything seemed to go just right.

To begin with, we’d some people drop in who might be interested in buying our place. Early days yet I’m sure but at least they seemed to be making all of the right noises.

Then we realised that we were going to have a problem with our Swiss trip this Friday as the car insurance would run out in the middle of it. So we called the previous insurer and they, for once, came up with the goods in terms of the certificate that we needed to hand to the new guys.

Next problem was that the car needed re-registered as that had already run out. Off to the garage and they not only handed us the new papers but had the new license plates on as well within 30 minutes.

Onward to the new insurers with all the paperwork and we didn’t even have to queue!

Finally, we’ve managed to close our place down without somebody booking when we want to be away ourselves.

Oh, and we’ve even got ourselves booked into a lovely place just outside Geneva which we thought would have been gone by now!

Although, hopefully, we will be off to Switzerland this Friday, we’re definitely going to be heading for Barcelona in about two weeks.

Yeah, I know, sounds like the life of a jet-setter but I can assure you that we’re definitely not in the jet-setting crowd! In fact, we usually end up eating in McDonalds when we’re in Barcelona which doesn’t strike me as being a hangout for the jetset to me.

However, in that this time we know a couple of weeks in advance that we’re going to some research to find a more suitable Barcelona restaurant in advance. If nothing else, I’m sure that we can do a whole lot better than McDonalds with even a few minutes research. Who knows, perhaps we’ll find out which restaurant that the jetset go to and stare in the windows whilst we’re eating our Big Mac 🙂

As you may know we’ve been quietly plugging away with On a Postcard for a few months now but haven’t really done anything to promote it other than mention it here now and again.

Still, I was surprised to find that we were offered the first paid posts on it the other day. Not a spectacular payout to be sure but I was amazed to get anything at all for a blog that was only born on September 1st and which I’ve only started posting regularly to in the last few weeks.

Sadly, I’m a long way from being able to list “professional blogger” as my occupation but it’s yet another (small) step in the right direction.

If you’re looking for a commercial logistics company (ie no residential moves) then look no further.

LGI service the markets in Mexico, USA and Canada with road haulauge including the likes of Mexico heavy hauling with all the specialised trucks that you would expect including vans,  flatbed, stepdeck, double drop, removable gooseneck and other specialized heavy haul trucking.

If you’ve something that you need moved around North America, they’ve all the equipment that you’ll require thus taking away those nagging little worries about non-specialised outfits that just do commercial logistics as a side-line to house moving and just can’t deal with the peculiar things that businesses often need moved.