It is still very early and the Cubs could blow it again, but this year looks to be their best chance to win a World Series since the early 1900’s. 1908 was the last and I am not a Cubs fan but I think they deserve to win one. I have a very close friend who is a huge Cub fan and as a true blue Cardinals fan we have a standing bet that if one of our teams win the World Series then the other has to buy them a new team jersey. He has furnished me with 3 team jerseys since we started this standing bet and I think it is time for me to buy him a brand new Chicago Cubs merchandise, he is way over due.

I started looking at Cub World to see what kind of new jerseys that they have for sale, and I was really amazed at the selection of Chicago Cubs gear. I know that Mark Grace was his favorite Cubs player of all time and I think a new Mark Grace jersey would fill the bill, I am ready to place my order and send it to Big Ed as long as the Cubs hold up their end of the bargain. Cub World has a great web site at http://www.cubworld.com and any Chicago Cub fan will be able to find all the Chicago Cubs gear that they could ever want at great prices and the shipping was reasonable too.

As Hurricane Gustav rains its self out in the mid west three more storms are lining up to hit the United States. Hannah, Ike, and Josephine are all gaining strength and Ike is already a category 4 storm. I am sure glad the Gustav did not do as much damage as the weather service thought that it would. We have had a pretty quiet storm season this year and to get all these storms at one time is very strange. We here in middle Tennessee do not get a lot of damage from any of the hurricanes but a little rain sure would be welcome. It has sure been dry all of August and the start of September.

We have added a side business to our delivery business and we now have to accept credit cards from our customers. While I do not have a problem with a credit card, it is just another step we have to take to keep our customer service at a high stage.

To get started with accepting credit cards we had to purchase a credit card machine and get set up with a merchant account with our bank. The merchant account was very easy to set up we used a great company for all the services and the credit card machine, we used Card Service Sales to provide us with what we needed to get stared accepting credit cards.

Card Service Sales is a great web site with a lot of very useful information on setting up business accounts and overall about credit card acceptance. I would recommend them to any business getting started with accepting credit cards and the questions that arise from this new part of any business. Check out their web site at http://www.cardservicesales.com to see if they can help you get started accepting credit cards or answer any questions that you have about your current credit card machine.

Hockey season is just around the corner it starts not long after football season begins and that gets rolling next week. I have become a huge hockey fan since I moved to Nashville, Finding tickets to a Titians football game is next to impossible and very expensive, so I have started going to the Predators hockey games, over the last 3 years I have only missed a handful of games and even went to an away game in San Jose, now that was an experience. I love the Predators but this year it looks like I will only be able to attend a few games the price has went up to much for me to afford season tickets and that pretty much has me bummed out, I will go to as many games as I can afford and hope that next year things are better and I will be able to get my season tickets back.

Every year at the end of summer we get some blessed rain and now we are getting our summer rains here in Tennessee. The rains we are getting now are a result of Hurricane Faye, the same storm that hit Florida over and over again. I am very glad we are not getting the flooding rains but slow soaking rains that we really need here. We had a very wet spring and a very dry August until this week. Now everything can get green again and be ready as we head into the fall of the year and watch the turning of the leaves, a sight I love to watch.