Catching you all up to speed.

So, it has been a long long time since I have done anything with this blog, but I have had a lot going on.

That said, let me try my best to catch you all up to speed.

First of all, if you have not run into me already, I will tell you now…I am NOT moving to Lexington. I know that the talk a few months back was that I would be leaving to take a job with a company called Trusted Health Products. I did go for an interview in February, and I did get the job offer a month later, but their are a few things that came up that made me reconsider staying in Florida.

One of those things was the recent reorganization of the managerial structure within Best Buy stores. The talk for a while was that my position–Store Services Manager–would be eliminated…which, it was. HOWEVER, and new position called Customer Solutions Manager was created, and I will be making the lateral move to that spot starting April 27th. It is more up my alley, and I will be better suited in that roll, so the stress of work that made me want to pick up and move to Kentucky is no longer there. The other reason for NOT moving will be in the blog that is posted directly following this one…so be sure to check that out also.

So for those of you out there in Marion and Citrus County who think I left, I haven’t, so look me up and say hey sometime. I have a new cell number too…352.586.5724…send me a text message and let me know whats going on.

Ok, enough about the Kentucky thing…and on to MORE new stuff.

I have two new websites that I am working on, www.tampabayraysfan.com & www.thomasgemkow.com.

The first one, TBRF, has been what most of my creative focus has been centered on lately and I hope to turn it into the number one fan blog about the Tampa Bay Rays within the next year. I just need time (more of that in the coming paragraphs). Look for daily updates starting May 1st. You can follow the page on Twitter also.

The second site listed above will eventually replace the blog you are reading today, but that is a few months down the road. The goal is to make www.thomasgemkow.com one centralized place where I can keep all my thoughts, all my prior writing and all my current projects I am working on, in hope of landing some side work as a copywriter on the web. I really want to get into the internet marketing and web design industry, but I am doing it my way, which is home grown and learning as I go. Should be pretty neat, just keep checking them both out for details…they would have grown much faster, but their has been a huge lack of time.

When you do stop in, be sure to email me or leave comments, I love to hear feedback!

I keep mentioning that time has been tonight, but time is something that will be in abundance starting May 1st. I am moving to Lady Lake, which will put me about five minutes from work at Best Buy. Instead of driving 30 miles to work everyday, I will be driving less than which will give me about an hour and a half of extra time each day to work on side projects.

I will be living in a 2 bedroom 2 bath townhouse in a community called Caleb’s Place. It is a great place, and I will be showing you pictures pretty soon, they should be updated on www.thomasgemkow.com no later than May 5th or 6th.

This will be the second time in my adult life that I have lived in Lady Lake, and I know without a shadow of a doubt that this time will be a much more memorable experience than the first. The largest reason for that will be found in the next post.

I will be starting an actual tangible business sometime this summer. I am not going to talk much about it now, but it is something that will be beneficial to many, and I think it has limitless potential…and it totally UNRELATED to the two websites I wrote about in the prior paragrpahs.

That is all you get for now. If you think you can guess what it is, then take a stab, if you guess right…I promise I will tell you.

I guess I covered everything that is new from a career standpoint. Hope that my absence makes a bit more sense now. I hate to leave this page neglected because I know a lot of people checked it out pretty frequently, and I hope you continue to do so, and that you add the other pages I am working on to your bookmarks so you can watch my empire I look to start grow from the ground up.

Should be an exciting ride…so hang on and be sure to stop and say hello every now and again.

~ by tscogemkow on April 24, 2009.