Happy birthday to meeeeee....

Quick update.

Fortieth birthday arrived quietly this morning at 9:30 without too much of a jolt, although I was perfectly happy at 39. My sister - who will be fifty at her next birthday - has taken great joy in rubbing this 40th birthday business in. In the last week, no fewer than FIVE cards. Since she can't be here to put little styrofoam tombstones in the yard and a black pall over the front door she has to content herself with caring enough to send the very best™. I really do love my sister. Every card reminds me why.

From the Employment Desk, when the shit hit the fan over CFO's announcement yesterday, he backpedaled some today. We had another meeting - there's only three of us so it sounds a lot more snooty that it actually is - where CFO reiterated that the company is not insolvent, we just need one or two sales to make up a shortfall. Welllll, goddamn man, you coulda said that yesterday, eh? Our break-even amount each month is only x amount of dollars, he says, which is pretty low, considering. Insurance will continue to be paid for, we just have to suck it up and get past the bump.

Uh-huh. Well, he's not a man for idle chat or pie-in-the-sky promises where there's no real hope, so I believe him, but damn...hate the stress of it, you know? And M and I still want to build the business at home, see where it takes us, day-job or no.

Happy birthday to meeeeee....

Quick update.

Fortieth birthday arrived quietly this morning at 9:30 without too much of a jolt, although I was perfectly happy at 39. My sister - who will be fifty at her next birthday - has taken great joy in rubbing this 40th birthday business in. In the last week, no fewer than FIVE cards. Since she can't be here to put little styrofoam tombstones in the yard and a black pall over the front door she has to content herself with caring enough to send the very best™. I really do love my sister. Every card reminds me why.

From the Employment Desk, when the shit hit the fan over CFO's announcement yesterday, he backpedaled some today. We had another meeting - there's only three of us so it sounds a lot more snooty that it actually is - where CFO reiterated that the company is not insolvent, we just need one or two sales to make up a shortfall. Welllll, goddamn man, you coulda said that yesterday, eh? Our break-even amount each month is only x amount of dollars, he says, which is pretty low, considering. Insurance will continue to be paid for, we just have to suck it up and get past the bump.

Uh-huh. Well, he's not a man for idle chat or pie-in-the-sky promises where there's no real hope, so I believe him, but damn...hate the stress of it, you know? And M and I still want to build the business at home, see where it takes us, day-job or no.