OK, for anyone interested enough to read this. What you are looking at is a journal of the start of a new business. Topics will range from the banal to the mundane, but feel free to peruse at your leisure. Well, this is the start of a new year, and with it the start of new adventures and projects. The store is coming along. Signage is on it's way. It's located on the Tamiami Trail in Osprey Florida, a corridor between Sarasota and Venice. We are open for business but not yet advertising so it's been walkin for the most part. Going to start with some direct marketing postcards and ads in the local weeklies next week for Lazares Bazaar. There is lots of traffic driving by daily and a fair amount of residential neighborhoods. We are very close to the beaches at Casey Key and Oscar Scherer State Park is just down the road. Have been getting alot of help from my neighbor next door at Suncoast Auction Gallery. He does weekly live auctions and I often find great buys there that I'll throw on ebay. Lots of my asian items are coming through him. Hoping the ebay store will help boost sales for Toast Wireless (www.toastwireless.com) as well. My brother Ric at Promark Designs (www.promarkdesigns.com) is going to redo my Toast Wireless website and make it more professional looking for me. I still need to help Angel (www.angelalazare.com) with her Coaching website so that she can get going on her business as well. And with all this going on, we've gotten ourselves a new puppy a few days ago. A Boxer, Boston Terrier and Rottweiler Mutt. Very cute, very smart, very sharp puppy teeth. OUCH!! Lots of fun for the rugrats though. OK, running late to meet the fam this afternoon. So I'm cutting my first blog short. Will keep writing as I feel like it. Love to all. Stephan