A couple of weeks ago, "W" came to town. He ended up going to a locally owned restaurant for breakfast. Actually, it was just dry toast and coffee; he'd probably had waffles on Air Force One. His visit was not that far from the store so traffic was blocked off for miles which caused many employees to be late to work. I lucked out and took a different exit and got in on time. Most of our delivery drivers were not so lucky. One of them got stuck for almost 45 min. and the other was immobile for 90 min. Thanks George!
A friend of mine works at a local hospital with a woman whose son is part of the morning show of a local radio station. According to the woman, her son told her the Secret Service came to the station and told them they were not allowed to say anything bad about the President while he was in town. The morning folk stated talking about W and the S.S. intervened and told them they couldn't talk about the prez AT ALL!!! Guess we shouldn't be surprised that the guy who wants to take away as many free speech liberties as possible sends the S.S. in to make sure everything is under control. That's what you do when you take over a country, take out their communications...learned that in history class.
Speaking of communication, our CEO started his own blog about a month ago. This blog is a part of our intranet at work. He writes a column once a week and we can submit a comment if we'd like. The man had no idea what he was in for. The comments on the first two blogs had nothing to do with the blog topic. He was bombarded with questions about everything that is wrong with the company. People were looking for answers. Answers that they were obviously not getting from store managers or district managers (or even higher up the chain). I really believe he thought he was stepping down off the mountain to pass along words a wisdom to his followers, as though we'd be waiting for him in a subjugated position.
He's trying to bond, I suppose, but when he spent one blog running down what he did in the course of a day, he name checked so many people, I felt like I was listening to someone who hasn't pumped his own gas for a few years.
By the third blog, he'd had enough. In a rather pissy tone, he told us we should stick to the blog topic or offer up "big picture" questions. His responses to most comments are condescending and often have several spelling and grammatical errors. Seriously, he's not some teenager textmessaging a friend during study hall to find out where this week's beer party is located. He's a freakin' CEO--invest in spell check buddy...or better yet, keep a flipping dictionary at your desk. I know where you can pick one up cheap.
Here are a couple of random things:
Stephen Colbert is apparently getting his own flavor of Ben & Jerry's.
Duke fell out of the Top 25 rankings for the first time in 11 years. They missed the number 25 slot by just 8 votes. They had the second longest streak at 220 consecutive weeks in the rankings. One more week and they would have tied UCLA, which went 221 a couple of decades ago. Still love them though.
Several people in Boston are idiots. Essentially, a series of lite brites were up for about 2 weeks before someone noticed and confused a cartoon character with a terrorist threat. Maybe it's because Boston is close to NYC that they are hyper freaky about this sort of thing, but come on people.
The new Nine Inch Nails cd comes out April 17 and it's called Year Zero. I'm excited. I'm sure the rest of you probably don't care that much, but that's okay.
One last bit, another sign the world is coming to an end...today we got in a Grey's Anatomy magazine. ARRRGHHHHH!!!!!!!
That's that. Hope the crazy font action made up for the lack of photography this time around.
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