So 2009 has been quite a ride of a year. It started out a lot better than it is finishing, that's for sure, but now I'm happy to try to dust some of this off and get going again in 2010 ( Read more... )

It's minutes from the opening of the stock market and all of the futures, all of the other world markets results overnight point to a large drop for the market today ( Read more... )

Over the last few days the stock market has gone from bad to worse, and at my job, calls are spiking. We've been asked to work more overtime and take short lunches. The callers have become more and more agitated, searching for any information they can. For me, it's been tough ( Read more... )

I spoke to my parents again tonight. Despite being 100 miles away from Galveston, they were without power. Their whole county is in the dark, and may be for several days. My Dad said that not only were many of the powerlines hit in the area, but the main powerplant was also damaged in the storm ( Read more... )

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✬One more day of work before Christmas tomorrow. My excessively grinch-y overseers are closing the office early, but instead of being nice and just giving us the time, they asked up to get up early and come in early so we can still work our full shift ( Read more... )

Today is my 5th LJ Anniversary. Although my blogging, with long, windy posts, had diminished quite a bit over the last year, i still find LJ to be a wonderful community and I'm very happy of the connections I've made here ( Read more... )

Wow, it's been a tiring couple of weeks lately. Mostly it's all work related. One thing I have learned, the division of the company i work for isn't really good at crisis management. well, they just aren't that good at management period because this shouldn't be a crisis in the first place ( Read more... )

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I lost the job ( Read more... )