You! You Did This To Yourself!

Like a lot of people I have spent the last few weeks working while keeping an eye on the stock market. I know there has been a lot of gnashing of teeth about Citibank and Bank of America, two of the largest banks in the world.

Their long slide into irrelevance and embarrassment is their own doing. I refuse to feel pity and shame for these companies that made irresponsible decisions and are now causing us all to suffer.

Citibank, in particular, has lost 97% of it's value over the last five years. I hope you fail. I hope you fall into bankruptcy. I hope your executives soil themselves as shareholders and employees alike storm the boardroom and demand justice.

watching Man vs. Wild and working on documentation.

I have this sinking feeling that I'm being outmaneuvered on something and I don't like it.

getting all caught up after a very busy night last night.

so I just keep wondering if there's going to be some point where the NYSE hits 0. what then? go home, hug the family, and wait for the end of the world?

to the girl on the blue scooter: the sight of you laughing as you raced cabs down JFK, your purple scarf waving in the wind, made my morning

Yesterday's Loss in Soccer

The kids' loss in soccer yesterday is still sticking with me.  I'm not sure why, though I know that I was hoping to win.  The team we faced was very physical, and I haven't taught my team to be like that, so I guess I was hoping for skill to win over violence.  Violence is probably too strong a word, but my daughter's knees are bruised up this morning and scraped.

You who know me know that I don't worry about bruised and scraped knees per se, it's part of childhood, but I don't like it when it comes at the hand of kids who are routinely pushing my little girl to stop her from dribbling the ball.

Very frustrating.