Of course we are excited to get back all of our bins, office supplies, and organization we were accustomed. However, our resolve to work diligently and create quality product has been the key to our success through all weather. We are prepared for the work, but more importantly, able and willing to pull the proverbial trigger at the right moments.

I previously worked where you could conceivably put off proving your abilities for weeks as you ask for office supplies and other items of environmental preference. They needed matching mesh bins, they needed specific drawer organizers, they needed a special type of computer mouse, and so on. Somehow matching mesh organizers were going to make them better sales people, and they just can’t get out there and rally business without the proper receptacle for their pens.

They would follow up their fulfilled supply list requests with the need to expense meals. That’s a common and effective practice for salesmanship. Many lunches and happy hours executed; very little moment in the revenue generating horizon. When one has not put any effort into learning the product, the lingo, or the client, it’s just free lunch for everyone but the boss.

Ultimately, many never made the grade and were let go after months passed and business did not pick up despite the expensed materials and outings.

I have several entrepreneurial friends and acquaintances. Those who are successful share a trait: nose to the grindstone ability and willingness. Those who are not as successful share a different characteristic: excessive purchasing and setting up of meaningless material business cliches not crucial to their needed infrastructure.

Even in personal lives and endeavors I find the same true. There are those who do with what they have and those who hoard until that perfect moment to act that never arrives.

The preparation needed to succeed personally or professionally is mental preparedness. Understanding and metabolizing the reality of the levels of stamina, sweat, confidence and sacrifice necessary is the most difficult facet of readiness.

When your foundation revolves around pens, paint, chairs, new house, and other outside material influences, it simply becomes an endless cycle of procrastination. You’ll forever have a reason outside of yourself for your failure to act and to take responsibility for the fortune that comes your way in life.

Be prepared to act at the opportunities before you. Be prepared to put footprints in the sand before stamping concrete with your mark.

Vietnamese actress stage-named Junie Hoang has sued IMDB for $1 million dollars for all the work she lost because the website revealed her age.

Who knew massage parlors were so discriminatory…

Congratulations, you’ve cornered employees into choosing what’s more important: their family or their barely-above minimum wage job.   All so yuppies, and their wannabes, can get their favorite over-priced drink on their way to spend time with their families. 

Merry Christmas…

At my home in Falls Church, Virginia, I went to the local chain grocery store to stock up on non-perishables on Thursday. I’m not concerned about damage as much as I have very little faith in the energy company to keep my power up through the 30mph winds and functioning after days after.

I head down the beer isle and it’s inundated with men…only men, I was the sole vagina…gathering cases of their favorite brew. I went between choosing Heineken or Corona only to start considering the possibility of being on the hurricane ravaged streets of Falls Church. Me with a fancy bottle of beer that trumps the canned 22 someone down the street would be drinking. I didn’t want their envy to encourage the looting of my now relatively unsecured condo thinking I had good merchandise. After that passing thought, I grabbed a case of Miller Light cans and proceeded with my journey.

Bread was gone. Water was gone. Many cereals were gone. Carts were filled with random items and left in the isles as the employees had no time or opportunity (and didn’t see the value in spending the time) to neatly stock the shelves.

I went to the candy isle for trail mix and it was filled with only fat women. All women. All size 22 plus. Needless to say no stray carts of merchandise were left in the isle so passing through the ocean of chocoholics was possible. I noticed a lot of those large candy bars…not King Size, those one pound bars I often wonder who purchases…were depleted.

I gathered all the food I had ventured out for except for Slim Jims, bottled water, and lighters. I go to one of the winding checkout lines and wait for a good 25 minutes to check out; all the while dodging the “cutting in line” attempts of two separate Asian men of small stature.

After leaving I went to the convenience store next door. It wasn’t busy and had the random items I needed. I go to the counter to pay for my items: 6 Slim Jims, 4 lighters, 2 boxes of pizza rolls, and a case of water. If that’s not a pothead food survival kit, then nothing is. The cashier looked at my items, looked at me, looked at my items again, and sighed with an eye roll as she scanned and bagged my purchase.

Reports from a colleague in Ashburn, Virginia, said that Thursday her local grocery store had plenty of non-perishables and water in stock but yogurts and shredded cheese were wiped out. Specifically shredded cheese. I would understand if the tortillas were also sold out too. Instead somewhere people will be popping mouthfuls of shredded cheddar like big league chew gum.

Reports from a friend in Dundalk, Maryland, is that several liquor stores are sold out of fine products such as Bud Light and Natty Boh. The North Point Wal-Mart and several grocery stores are sold completely out of soda. However, water is in full supply at aforementioned retail locations.

Reports from the television indicate that reporters are disappointed by the relatively uneventful storm, as they were from the week’s earlier uneventful earthquake, and wish they had a larger vocabulary to describe the current conditions with more than the same three sentences over and over again.

Pardon me as I break to crack open a can of Miller Lite and enjoy the view of the rain…

…I think I just saw a paper bag tumble down the street! Quick, Hon, grab the video camera!

Analysis suggest US is heading into 2nd recession.

Could someone please tell me when the first one ended?!