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DESIGNER KISSES

I’m glum about your sportive flesh in the empire of blab, and the latest guy running his trendy tongue like a tantalizing surge over your molars, how droll. Love by a graveyard is redundant, but the skin is an obstacle course like Miami where we are inescapably consigned: tourists keeping the views new. [...]

A quick recap

Friday – Airport, then Citris Grill for yummy miso beef salad.

Saturday – Museum of Natural History at the University of Utah, then Oasis Cafe … then a homecooked meal of chicken, sautéed in olive oil and garam masala spice, with feta, hazelnut and butternut squash ravioli, accompanied by spring greens salad with a homemade [...]

Jason Chaffetz is an idiot

Jason Chaffetz is the freshman Representative from Utah’s 3rd Congressional District; primarily southwest Salt Lake County and Utah County. He has been documenting his first year in Congress for CNN.com. The except below is from a recent commentary on the economic stimulus package, which Rep. Chaffetz claims will do nothing to help the average American. [...]

Communication Day

Much to our surprise, today was Communication Day at work.

Management buttered us all up by bringing in a good lunch from outside, before telling all of us that we are getting no raises, and no bonuses this year.

Even though my division is pretty much the only one in the company that actually made [...]

Historical perspective

The financial system | What went wrong | Economist.com

“A COMPANY for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.” This lure for the South Sea Company, published in 1720, has a whiff of the 21st century about it. Modern finance has promised miracles, seduced the brilliant and [...]

Speaking of Adnausea …

From the Wall Street Journal (subscription required):

On the Web, Signs of a Click Recession Google Feels Pinch As Ad Growth Slows; Sweeter Deal for Yahoo? By KEVIN J. DELANEY February 27, 2008

Internet advertising may be showing itself more vulnerable to a consumer slowdown than many in the industry had hoped, according to new [...]

Catching up …

It’s a good thing I’m not planning on retiring anytime soon … with the way the markets have been moving the past few weeks, I’m only $195.00 “richer” than I was on January 1st … pretty much every dime I’ve put in, along with my company match is gone; altogether, about a 16% loss.

On [...]

Market “corrections” …

So the past couple days, the stock market has been down; including a little mini-crash (or “market correction”) yesterday … what does this mean? Well, for me it means that since Friday, I’ve lost almost $4,000.00.

So what do I do? I take the opportunity to rebalance, shifting some money out of my stable value [...]

Holiday Parties

My company’s holiday party is tonight … and where am I?

At home, in bed, watching TV and typing this blog entry. And for once, it’s not because I’m feeling anxious about showing up … I pretty much just flat-out do not want to go.

Tomorrow is the day that we find out what our [...]