Well I'd say that 2009 is off to a somewhat so-so start.  The end of 2008 wasn't at all that great.  I found out just a week before Christmas that the entire call center staff here in the city was laid off, so it wasn't a very merry Christmas for all of us (across the board under our company about 525 people were laid off a week before the holiday ( Read more... )

Omigawd!  I can't believe it's that time of the year again.  Well, actually, we're already 4 days in to 2008.  New Year's Resolutions are often done before the stroke of midnight December 31st, but that's IMO.  Others, I believe, start their list on the actual 1st of the month -- shortly after the stroke of midnight.

Almost every year I make a "list ( Read more... )