One of the guys working for me has been bringing in movie soundtracks to play at the store. I don't know what movies they are -- but I feel like I'm in a theater. Very anthem-ic. Gets lots of raised eyebrows.
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So the hijacker, D.B. Cooper might have pretty much used his own name -- and had a connection to Boeing -- and no one ever saw it before?
The F.B.I sure is on top of things....
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Linda thought she was renewing my New York Times Sunday paper subscription, and instead signed up for The New Yorker. I don't mind -- the cover illustrations and cartoons alone are probably worth it. I remember always looking at the magazine when my parents took it. (It appears to be maybe one third the size of the mag. I remember...)
I'll tell you....reading long magazine articles feels kind of strange nowadays, especially since most of the ones I'm interested in I read online anyway.
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I had one of those eye-opening realizations that make me wonder why I didn't realize it before.
Yes, I was up 10% in sales in July from the previous year, my first up month in 14 months. But ALL that increase (and more) was due to one category, which had an unusual reason for being up that probably won't be duplicated soon.
In other words, it was more or less a false sign. Take that unusual reason out of the equation, and I would have had the usual small drop.
Sigh.
Still, I'm still more profitable today than I've been in 90% of my career -- due just to the store maturation. It took a long time to get here -- years of investment in time and inventory. It's fully stocked in six major categories....
It was painful at the time, but it certainly has panned out.
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I was patting myself on the back for avoiding a 5% drop in the stock market.
If I had waited just one more day, I would have avoided another 5% drop.
Bah.
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I say we just ignore S & P's downgrade. Just pretend there is no such thing as S & P.
What did you say? Who's S & P?
See...it's easy.
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My gardening urge has faded with the heat.
I really don't like the heat.
Later: changed my mind. Spent an hour on the lawn with my cat. It isn't that hot, and I started to get the urge to weed.
Think I'll be doing that for the next couple days -- put my laptop on patio in case I think of anything to write.
Ah, the life.
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do the hot yard work early in morning
s&p was seen coming by everyone, more important is ramifications
now all will go south gnma, fnma, all usa debt has RISK every fucking usa ponzi paper to be downgraded to junk.
NOW EURO-ECB WILL GO DOWN & japan, next 10+ years US-EU-JP econ toilet largely because entitlements this where hbm&dunc mind-fuck because all countrys with 'entitlement obligations' are non-competitive in tomorrows dog-eat-dog world.
I have always said here 'survival'
you know virtually all of asia has no 'welfare' so this where ALL THINGS WILL BE MADE
BY DEFAULT USA post ww2 had its currency become 'reserve', s&p means shit cuz asian raters downgraded usa to junk last year
sometime in next 1-2 years usa will lose res-cur status what that means to US pubic hair is oil no longer be traded for usd. Then oil in usa will cost 10-20 dollars, civil war ... Econ-reset collapse of welfare and usa will bury the dead and once again be an agrarian leader & privatized penal colony.
Usa leadership is non-existent until all lawyers are removed from political&court system, primary problem today in usa is that non-productive redistribution class control the 4 estates.
All mercantile civilizations end this way just read 2 vol Sprengler 'decline of west' from 1915
the 'legal criminals' always fleece the production class by debasement or war
D.B. cooper.... yeah the FBI has a new, "new" suspect every 5 years or so... this is the same. And it probably ain't the guy.
I just thought it funny that a hijacker could use the initials D. And the name, Cooper, and no one thought to look for a guy named that.
I mean, you wonder if it was a spur of the moment thing, and he didn't give a shit and gave them close to his real name expecting to get caught.
"I really don't like the heat."
Only a true Bendoid would call the mid-80s "hot."
"One of the guys working for me has been bringing in movie soundtracks to play at the store"
Does your employee know about Varese Sarabande? Tell him to get the 4 disk 25th anniversary special collection. Blows me away every time.
I really think the best music -- certainly the best orchestral music -- is in movie theatres.
They even have (had?) a magazine for us really serious types: Film Score.
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