That Be Snow In There Mountains
What a wonderful but early day. We did not post last night and for good reason. We be tired. After a delicious home cooked meal (Devin did some ham steaks, home fires, and great Caesar salad.) I helped Jack with some English homework. Yes, me helping someone else with English. I don't know a dangling participle from a (hold it I have to look up another grammar word) passive equivalent. What I found out was amazing.
After typing millions of words on the computer, you can highlight a word, do a right click, go to "look up" and you can use a dictionary and a thesaurus for information about the word you highlighted. Seriously. Go ahead and try. If your e-mail browser is not MS Word, just cut and paste this paragraph and try it. I sit here while you do it. Mm mm mm, mm mm mm, mm mm mm mm mmm. (That was Jingle Bells if you were wondering.) Ok your back, Cool.
Anyway, I tried to hit the sack kinda early last night but that did not work. I spent a while reading my new book. It is an old new book as I heard they have made the book into a movie. Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy, by John le Carre. I remember reading this a long time ago and then one of my golf buddies Tim said they made a movie out of it and it was getting decent reviews. I went home a loaded it on my Kindle. It is a slow start but I like the voice. (That is literary terminology for I can read it easy.)
This morning I was up at 4:50 to jump in the shower, wake Jack, get him to practice and then wait for the tickets for our football game to go on sale. I was at the school at 5:54. I waited and waited and cleaned up 143 e-mails, listened to Bloomberg on the satellite radio, and waited and read some more of TTSS on my Kindle, then read some of the Financial Times on my Kindle, and at 7:15 went to the athletic building where the tickets would be on sale. I was the 4th person in line. Last week there was about 50 people.
I had a feeling that with general admission unassigned seating that the early worm was just going to get cold, dirty and hungry.
That was the case. I did not have to be there at 6:00am. Well I got my e-mails done and caught up on some reading. The good news was no dogs exploded this morning.
After arriving at the office and slurping down a bit of coffee, I attended a great meeting of folk on our executive steering committee meeting. This is where key execs from all over the world centralize ideas, product concepts, and strategies as they apply to our strategic planning function. Then we as a steering committee review the recommendations, commit resources, and set priorities accordingly. Today's meeting went extremely well as there were very few distractions and noting but good builds on programs we already have in place. It was about two hours, but worth the time.
It was on the way to lunch when I saw a beautiful dusting of snow on the mountains above our home. It was really nice. Made me long for Utah. Then I had lunch at yah, you guessed it Hanna's. I owe Marykate and her family dinner there as we challenged each other to dinner there over the SMCHS vs Mission Viejo Football game. (I remembered MKM, Devin and I are working on a date.) I was bad and had a sloppy sandwich, but its rainy and overcast and needed some comfort food. Good stuff.
We made it back in time to close the market. But more about that later.
After a busy afternoon, I headed home and we got lazy and ordered some pizza and wings. After that, Devin had a little photo project for me involving horse pictures e-mails, down sizing huge photo files, and Christmas cards. It took about 2 hours. Then it was a little TV and at 11:15, we decided to put this beast to bed. So what happen in the market today?
