Another Friday Evening

One would think that a man with my good looks, charm and great wealth, would have a schedule so full that he would have to juggle events just fit only a half of things he was invited to in on a Friday evening. At least, that’s what I would have thought, especially here in Las Vegas. There are so many things to do, and yet, I can’t think of a thing to do or who to do it with.

Now take a Thursday, when I have too many things to choose from that I end up working late and miss them all. That’s the way most of the weekday evenings go, but the two nights I have where I don’t have to wake up early, Nothing, nada I can hear the crickets.

The challenge for me is that I am too busy during the week to set up anything to do on the weekends. My friends all think I am a workaholic so no one calls me and at this point in time, I am between wives.

Truth be told, I am working an extreme amount of hours these days working on the redesign of my company’s web site. The effort I am putting in is really staring to show and at the is rate, I am going to be bale to present it to the public sometime in early turn of the century. At least that is the way it feels, but my design team assures me that by July 1, we will be good to go.

But that is enough of me talking about me, why don’t you talk about me for a while.

All kidding aside, if you know of something to do on a Friday or a Saturday evening invite me, I might not be the life of the party, but I clean up quite well and make a cheap date.

June 18, 2011

Good morning today is Saturday, June 18, 2010 and it is a beautiful Saturday morning here in Las Vegas.

I’m just waking up. And I am thinking about having some coffee. So I’m going to get up, and walk into the kitchen and make myself some coffee.

It’s an interesting thing, I’m actually recording this blog post using Dragon dictate and then I’m copying and pasting it into my blog. I find it’s a lot easier to talk than type. How fun is that. It even spells better than I do.

Unfortunately, today I have to go to the office and work. The new websites coming along and I have so much work to do to get it ready for the public. It really looks good to me. I have done multiple websites in the course of the last 14 years with SoundBroker and this is by far the best of them all. It is easy to use, intuitive and user-friendly.

Time to moving, More to follow…..

Update on the updated SoundBroker.com

“You can’t hurry love you just have to wait” Holland-Dozier. It seems so simple and yet so complex. I can hardly wait to introduce you to this amazingly beautiful and simple to navigate web site.

The first version of SoundBroker.com was released to the public in 1998 under the moniker members.aol.com/cashlandy, then in few weeks I was forced into creating cashlandy.com and since then there have been numerous updates and modifications. All designed to enhance the usability and the functionality for the end users. I remember having the site up and running from concept to reality in 2 days. Those were the days. I started the design and implementation of this version in November 2010 in hopes of introducing it at NAMM in Anaheim. Will I make it in time for Infocom?

This version of SoundBroker.com not only improves the usability and the functionality, it also improves the overall aesthetics of the site. This version removes all the clutter and replaces it with a clean fresh design that provides super fast and intuitive handling for our members.

With the introduction of the Platinum Membership Buying Club, not only will you be able to navigate the site with a few simple clicks of the mouse, but you will find unbelievable savings and for the first time you will be able to link directly to the selling member without having to go through The SoundBroker staff.

I know we are almost there, maybe even be able to make the change over before the weekend.

My 60th Birthday Party at Stirling

Turning 60 has it’s advantages & disadvantages. The advantage is that you get a senior discount at the movies and in Brazil you can go to the front of any line at the bank or grocery store. I don’t have the guts to pull that off at the grocery store, but I did at the bank & the movies. The disadvantages to quote Will Rogers, “You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.”

I partied in 5 different cities, San Francisco, Las Vegas, New York, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. Here are some of the photos.

NV Las Vegas Sun Reports: $3 Taxi Fare Increase

Taxis want to cement $3 credit card fee for fares
http://bit.ly/kLIVAR

My comments:
Anyone that gets in a taxi has the option of paying with cash. That is true. However today, most people don’t carry that much cash, thanks to multiple factors, one being the ease and security that a credit or debit card provides.

Having said that, Charging $3 to use a credit card is an outrageous ripoff. $3.00 on a $10 dollar fair is 30%. What other industry adds a 30% charge to their price? I can understand adding in the extra cost of the % that the credit card companies charge in to the price on the meter so that it works out, so the taxi doesn’t lose money, but at most that would only add 3 cents max (The fare would have to be $300 for the charge to be $3.)

Can you imagine going into a Starbucks and buying a coffee for $5.00 and the cashier tells you that will be $8.00?

The problem here is that when one gets in a cab, they need a cab. I know that money is tight, but how can anyone justify such a blatant surcharge? (I thought I read somewhere that Las Vegas taxi fares are the highest in the US already.)

Just another example of how dysfunctional and out of touch with its people our government has become.

SoundBroker.com V6 Coming Soon

I was just informed by my designers that the newly redesigned SoundBroker.com is ready for Alpha Testing.

It will be an intense labor of love for me to fine tune it so that we can go to Beta and release it to the public.

I am very excited that we are headed into the future with a vision of greatness and a purpose to offer more services to our members than ever before.

Jan Landy is Making it Happen