Chicks and sticks for Christmas

My top two gifts from Christmas '08:

1. Nancy Lopez golf clubs from my man! Along with a couple accessory must haves.

2. Twenty chickens...Yes, you read correctly. Twenty chickens (or, about that). Bought to help families from Cameroon to the Caribbean through Heifer International. The website says, "Heifer helps many hungry families with a starter flock of 10 to 50 chicks. A good hen can lay up to 200 eggs a year - plenty to eat, share or sell."

Dedicating myself to life, not work

From this day forward (and some of those days of the past when I had similar, positive thinking thoughts) I will not be known just by what I do for work, but for what I do in life.

This post by the author of the Someday Syndrome blog has been good for me. It's probably good for you too.

BKBM’s Response to the Budget Crisis

A friend of mine just told me that the company she works for, BKBM Engineers, not only cut four people as a result of the budget crisis, but made a decision to cut 10% of everyone’s salary and decrease to 36 hour work weeks. “36 hour work weeks, 10% hour cut, 10% pay cut,” my friend quoted. However, the sad truth is is that just because the company is paying less, most likely does not mean less work. “We will probably work the same amount, just less pay.”

When asked what kind of impacts this might have on her company she said, “Is it too late to sign up for classes at the U of M? Now I have free time so I can take a class.”