All things being equal, I would probably have opened today, at least for half the day. But this has been such a killer cold bug, I'm going to take another day off.

Besides, my goal next year -- err, this year -- won't be on increasing gross sales, but on profits. This is a good precedent for me. Trying to artificially boost sales is exactly the wrong start.


NBC continues their extremely shortsighted policy of running an annoying promo in the bottom left corner of their shows. What's to keep them from running another one on the other side, or on all the corners, or permanently along the bottom? Or constant streaming? It was bad enough to some completely mood shattering promo would pop up in the middle of drama, but now they're leaving it there permanently?

Bad enough that they're doing it on T.V., but advertisers are becoming worse at the movies and dvd's as well.

The more they chase us, the more we run away.