6:15am - Cell phone (Blackberry Torch) alarm goes off for the first time. Give Herb a good morning call and make sure he is up and around to make it to MU by 6:30am. Hit snooze.
6:30am - Cell phone alarm goes off for the 2nd time. Get up, shower, get dressed, feed Rocky.
7:30am - Get to Apple Grove. Open the clinic. Write up daily duty board. Flip through my notebook and to do list.
7:45-8am - Check-in today's surgery and dental patients and start answering the myraid of phone clients calls.
8-9am - Read and respond to client and vendor e-mails. Print Mapquest directions (because I forgot my Garmin) to Brooklyn, MI for a bi-monthly Veterinary Practice Managers Meeting.
9-9:30am - Quickbooks Accounts Payable and record deposits.
9:30-10am - Write a recommendation letter for Rachel Papoi (former employee and recent college grad).
10-11am - Check-in and out appointments, answer more phones.
11am - Leave for bi-monthly practice manager's meeting. This time it's at Columbia Animal Clinic in Booklyn, MI.
12pm - Arrive at CAC, get a tour and head to lunch meeting at the Beach Bar on Clark Lake. Topic today is Inventory Management. I left with lots of ideas and motivation to revamp our Inventory control at AGVC.
2:30pm - One hour drive on a beautiful fall day back to Apple Grove.
3:30pm - Back to work. Make website edits, upload our Fall Newsletter and send out a mass client e-mail on the rise of Leptospirosis in dogs. Receive inventory. Work on updating our PPE and OSHA resource manual.5:00-5:30pm - Close. Run end of day reports. Run the back-ups. Delegate projects for the rest of the week.
5:30-6pm - Pack up my things and Rocky and hit the road. Surf the radio stations for the next 236 miles, talk on the phone to Brooke and Jenny and lots of check-in calls from Herb.
10pm - 4 hours later...arrive in Oxford. Rocky & I are home until Sunday!
So, 3 states and 6 hours in the car today and I'm not even a 'traveling salesman'!
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