tis the season
we went to pier one last night (we still had a gift card from our wedding...a whole other issue about us and procrastinating and making decorative decisions). they are pushing christmas hardcore. november 1st and it's christmas at pier one. there were decorations. they were even playing christmas music. my only retort to this is a good old fashioned 'what the fuck?'
i just saw on the news the other day that a study conducted by a business school somewhere (how's that for a credible source) showed that profits don't increase with an earlier start date to the christmas season. so why are they doing it? maybe my friend ben could elaborate on this economics phenomenon...
another 7 miles last night, then oliver and i went to the dog park. he loves that place even though he thinks a lot of the other dogs are pretty uncivilized. he should talk though (if he could talk that is), he woke us up at 5:15 this morning to the sounds of him wretching up a hairball. that's our cat/dog for you.
i'll end this post with an excerpt from the memo stating that we will not be having a holiday party this year...
did i mention that two weeks prior a vice president graced us with his presence to tell us that we are a billion dollar company and that we are doing well/will be doing well into the future? then he told us all to buy stock (kind of our own personal enron moment i guess). i'm still trying to find out what expectations we didn't meet.
i just saw on the news the other day that a study conducted by a business school somewhere (how's that for a credible source) showed that profits don't increase with an earlier start date to the christmas season. so why are they doing it? maybe my friend ben could elaborate on this economics phenomenon...
another 7 miles last night, then oliver and i went to the dog park. he loves that place even though he thinks a lot of the other dogs are pretty uncivilized. he should talk though (if he could talk that is), he woke us up at 5:15 this morning to the sounds of him wretching up a hairball. that's our cat/dog for you.
i'll end this post with an excerpt from the memo stating that we will not be having a holiday party this year...
While we have all worked very hard this year, we have not consistently met our own high internal standards company wide. The decision has been made to cancel all company-sponsored holiday parties for 2006. This decision was not made lightly, but we believe it is the prudent course of action.
did i mention that two weeks prior a vice president graced us with his presence to tell us that we are a billion dollar company and that we are doing well/will be doing well into the future? then he told us all to buy stock (kind of our own personal enron moment i guess). i'm still trying to find out what expectations we didn't meet.
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