Happy Valentine's Day, Friends!

It's difficult to celebrate today while we’re in the midst of a heavy tax season but here's a fun (and true) little story about love, romance, marriage & monogamy:

When President Calvin Coolidge and his wife Grace were being given simultaneous but separate tours of a prominent chicken farm, the First Lady asked her guide whether the rooster copulated more than once a day. “Dozens of times,” she was told. 

Armed with this juicy little tid-bit, Mrs. Coolidge said to her guide: “Tell that to Mr. Coolidge.” 

Feeling a bit uncomfortable, the tour guide approached the President to inform him of Mrs. Coolidge’s revelation.  When told, President Coolidge hesitated for a moment and then asked the guide:  “Same hen every time?” 

When the guide said, “No Sir. A different hen each time,” the President responded: “Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge.”

Sorry, I couldn't resist.  Hope you enjoyed that fun (and true) little story.

Voice Mail? Who needs voice mail!!

Hi All,

There was a severe storm that rolled through our area on Wednesday and, as a result, our office building has suffered some electrical damage.  Our power was out for a few hours and the internet connection was down for about 24 hours, but we’re back in business now.

It’s pretty reassuring to know that surge protectors work and, at the same time, it’s pretty alarming to learn that when surge protectors get fried they don’t protect the things that they are meant to protect!  Fortunately for us, we’ve only lost a network adapter and the voice mail component to our phone system (plus, of course, a few fried surge protectors).

The network adapter has been replaced and our voice mail system is in the process of being replaced.  If you happen to call our office, you won’t be able to leave any voice messages until the problem is fixed.  

What’s even more unfortunate for us is that it appears that our ten year old office phone number may have been someone else’s before it was assigned to us!!  If you call here and don’t get an answer, you will be confronted with the following message:

“The voice mail box for New Castle Recycling is full.  Please try your call again later.”

New Castle Recycling? Really!?! That’s not even close!  We’re trying to get the phone company to change that message but it’s been a 10 year battle and we don’t think it’ll be resolved anytime soon.

Accordingly, we wanted to let you know that your best bet to reach us after hours in the next week or so would be by email.  Here is a link to all of our email addresses:

http://www.franty.com/contact.html

Thanks very much for your patience.  Best regards,