been a while

So it's been like 2 weeks since I posted and I find that I sort of missed it. There's quite a bit going on, so I'll cut to the chase.....

At work, we've been busting hump in budget preparation and meetings for the last week or so. I was traveling last week and got quite a bit done, although not as much as I might have liked. I did get some disturbing (to me) information. It's only really disturbing to me, and mostly because I had high hopes for our new master and commander. I was sitting in the conference room (traveling, remember?) and he comes in and cuts to the chase about how they paid the previous owner for a bunch of items that we were kind of holding in reserve. Now I have no problem with him getting paid. What upsets me is that the other shareholders (oh yeah, those guys) know about it too, and it sounds to me like they aren't going to get paid for the value of them. That's just wrong, and I was sorry to hear NM&C (New Master and Commander) say it.

At home, I need to just insert my house, my family and all my possessions into a bubble and disinfect them. The golden children are sick again, with some really nasty stomach virus that has laid #2 child really low.

Again about the economy. Toll Bros reported today, and the news was uniformly bad. A big mall developer is in serious danger of defaulting. I'm not going to recap the news for anyone, because all you have to do is hit CNN for an update. All I'm pointing out is that the news sucks, and we need something positive to happen to give people a shot in the arm. I used to think this was mostly about confidence, but I've sort of converted to the thought that consumers are just tapped out and couldn't spend if they wanted to. I think the housing bubble just masked it and gave us a few more years because credit was so stupidly easy to get.


I had a phone interview last night with some CPAs that represent a fab shop back in La. They are looking for a CFO and I have an opportunity. I'm not sure about the job, mostly because of the ridiculously rural location, and the fact that I want my daughters to grow up thinking being smart is a good thing. I'm probably going to meet with them the week of Thanksgiving, so we'll see what happens and what the area looks like. Truth be told, if they were to offer to buy me out of my house at no, or minimal loss, I'd jump on this sucker in a heartbeat even with the potentially fucked up location.

More later