It is hard to believe my son has been working for the company over a year now. For those of you who have been keeping up, my son Nick is our youngest warehouseman. After Nick made some poor decisions last year, Greg and Debbie agreed to let him come in and work part time. What a difference a year has made! Not only is it great working with him, he has really matured over the last year.

After much thought, I would like to inform all of you wonderful Quickscrews customers and supporters that I will leaving my family business, to move to Antarctica to study the March of the Penguins. Just kidding, I’m not going anywhere-- I love this business and can’t stand the cold. April Fool’s!

I have often told people how I started Quickscrews over 25 years ago. Rarely do I ever explain why I did it. As a young man coming out of college at age 24 with a degree in business I started out working in a construction company as a cost analyst. I worked for a small privately held company where the owner and his partner were very active in running the company. I worked in the operations department which was responsible for running the crews that were doing the building.

At this time of year it is nice to take a few moments to reflect on how we are doing. I have been working hard this year on improving both my professional and personal life. In business I often take a good deal of time to analyze what we have done; then evaluate our options and lastly design a course of action consistent with the results of those processes. I find I rarely do that in my personal life. I will try harder. As my wife, Deb and I were raising 3 boys who were two years apart there wasn't a whole lot of time for analysis, just a whole lot of doing.