As usual, I was running late this morning and missed both buses I can take to the Caltrain. With no back up plan and laden with a grocery bag filled with whiskey for the new wet bar in my office, I did what anyone in the dark carrying a bag of booze would do at [...]
Posts Tagged ‘economy’
feeling it
Posted in all, tagged economy, life changes, unemployment rate on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
regressing in the recession
Posted in all, tagged baseball, economic clusterfuck, economy, politics, sports on March 4, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I hate scary movies. As a child I recall screaming and crying in the back of the family station wagon while my parents and older sister calmly watched Gremlins on the big screen at the local drive in theater. Throughout the entire film I covered my ears and stared out the back of the car [...]
something to think about
Posted in all, tagged economic clusterfuck, economy, job security, layoffs on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In San Francisco, I now know more people who are unemployed than going to work everyday. The horror began back in November when the quagmire on Wall Street still seemed far away. I remember talking to the folks back home in Boston and hearing tension in their voices. It reminded me of my childhood when we would [...]
doomsday?
Posted in all, tagged bailout, doomsday, economy, mccain on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I left work yesterday we had a $700 billion bailout in place. When I got home we didn’t. Minutes later reports surfaced that Washington Mutual was seized and the first presidential debate was still up in the air. I sat waiting for reporters to announce that parts of the sky had fallen over D.C. Then I [...]
money musings
Posted in all, tagged economy, money musings, stock market on September 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Editor’s warning: I am about to sound like your grandmother for a second. But …
When I was a senior in high school, a gallon of gas cost 99 cents. (I can even recall seeing signs for 89 cents a gallon in parts of southern New Hampshire.) Not even 10 years later, I just filled up the [...]
