There's an old adage that's used a lot in sales that says something
like "you never stop working" . last night it seemed the karma wheel might
spin it for me.  Tuesday was a long day where I had an 8:30 AM meeting in
Charleston South Carolina and at 530 meeting near downtown Atlanta Georgia.
After the 530 meeting concluded hydrovac 100 miles north to get closer to my
early morning destination (Phantom Auto Works).

Anyways, I stopped at a Ruby Tuesday's for late supper and sat at the bar
where I could watch television.  The guy next to me had his laptop open and
was searching his map program to find the best route to and industrial park
in Atlanta.  After a little chit chat we started talking about computers,
and software.   I helped him find where he was going and suggested that he
try the Microsoft streets and trips software with the gps attachment.  We
were then talking about his database contact management tool and we look at
what he was using.  I asked him if he typed in all of his reports or if he
spoke them in using a speech program.  I got the classical "deer in the
headlights "look.

I showed him where the speech to text program was located in Microsoft word
indoor opened up a whole new world to him.  After we finished eating I took
him out and showed him how this streets and trips gps program works, and how
the speech to text program works.  I handed him one of my business cards and
told him to call me if he needed some help getting it working right.  He
handed me one of his business cards and after looking at it I knew the karma
wheel was spinning.   Seems He is in management at ESAB. I told him I was a
hobbyist who liked to work on old cars, especially Studebakers. I told him I
wanted to buy a tig welder.  Not necessarily a new one, but a good use one
or a trade in, or a demo, or a repossession. I gave him I desired specs and
he said he would check into it personally and give me a call.

Jeff (Only time will tell.) Rice

PS: This was a 'speech to text' post....