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29.1.08

Yahoo Disappoints[?]



So I'm reading through business stories on CNN and what headline should appear but ""Yahoo disappoints, to cut jobs"

But Yahoo only disappointed Wall Street analysts. It didn't disappoint anyone else. The company saw its profits jump 10% over last year. That's double-digit growth.

And so what is the company doing to react to the fact that investors' expectations were on the high end of the company's estimate?

They are going to lay off 1,000 people! It's absurd. And do you have any idea of how many more houses could go into foreclosure due to unemployment?

Wall Street is just making its created housing crisis hurt more people and have an even larger effect on the economy. The so-marketed "American Dream" was/is being promised while it rending it apart.

And the effect? Some from very dangerous countries, and others not so, are buying us up. And we are shilling it out as if we can actually meet any of the obligations we're getting ourselves into.

And the government wants to just put more of its obligations to us into the hands of businesses that can be bought up like what is happening now. And then it's the obligation of these other countries and their investment banks, and when they decide they don't want the obligations either as they have their own, who will be the first to take the hit? The citizens of the USA or the citizens we will be sold to maintain?

As you're reading this on a now-Google product, isn't it ironic that this is a reason for Yahoo's struggles?

28.1.08

Scrabble Weekend



Every weekend to the shore house has become a board game fest ever since the beach closed. The first several times it was Risk, which I was getting the hang of and I was pretty happy with all the outcomes, but now that Christmas has come and gone and Santa has left some things behind, the new game is Scrabble.

Being a wordsmith of sorts, I have a bit of an advantage, I suppose, but I got a run for my money and kept my scores in the 200s. That's below good, but now I have something to strive for. And the games go much faster than Risk.

And while you might not think a trip to the shore house in the winter is much fun, it's proven to be that, even when I don't get a glimpse of the sea.

Experimenting in the kitchen, still some time for yoga, and plenty more freedom is just what I need to recover from the weekdays at the job. And it's gotten far more exasperating of late, too. Last Thursday gave me an 11-hour day, unneccessarily, and today isn't figuring to be much better. It's now 8 p.m., and the deadline was 7 ...

Why am I typing, you ask? Because there currently isn't much for me to do. I waiting for other people to get their work done so I can do my work on it, but things are a bit backwards and I'm not at liberty to make demands of people as the hierarchy of this job makes no sense. But change isn't easy to come by here, if at all.

But, to make this season a little easier, I do have some extra days earned and those will be spent on the beaches of Puerto Rico.

Let the countdown to Feb. 8 begin!!