Why is life not fair?
1. I lost a lot (for me) of money when Cape Fear Bank's assets were turned over to the FDIC. Their stock is now worth $0.01 and I bought it for $10.00 per share (I think). I have too much invested in individual bank stocks.
2. The wind is blowing so hard outside I am afraid that a tree is going to fall through my house.
3. My core sales are off 65% from about eight months ago and my company's profits are off almost as much.
4. I am saving nothing toward retirement. My real retirement plan is for the business to do well enough that I will be able to set money aside in the future.
5. Doing business is going to continue to get more difficult with Obama in office and I will get to keep less of my hard-earned money as the government sticks their hands further into my pockets.
6. I don't score every night- or every month for that matter.
8. My wife would not give me permission to score with someone else besides her.
9. If she did it wouldn't take me more than five minutes to finish.
10. My libido is not diminshing with age.
6/20/2009
6/17/2009
I Hate Lawyers
I have just signed a licensing agreement and I feel like I am running naked through a field of razor blades carrying a 55 gallon drum of isopropyl alcohol with holes in the bottom. The agreement puts almost all of the risk on my company - the licensee. The licensor is taking comparatively no risk. The licensor will not even warranty that he has the rights to license his invention.
I could go into all the details but I would bore myself and I know them all and no one reads this anyway, but if someone sues my company claiming that the product we are manufacturing under license infringes on another patent we are completely fucked because the inventor is not even claiming to have the rights to license what he is licensing. Were my company sued in this manner we would have no recourse with the inventor.
Normally I would never enter into an agreement that is so one-sided but without this agreement my company is effectively out of business. Eight months ago when our business outside this product we are licensing was good, I would have never signed this agreement and put my company at such risk. But now our core business has dropped off a cliff and the inventor has us by the balls even though he really doesn't know it.
His attorney is not an intellectual property specialist and the attorney I am using most certainly is. It is painfully obvious that the inventor's attorney doesn't know much about intellectual property law. The agreement he as drafted speaks so loudly to this point that I can even see it. Nevertheless the inventor is going by what his lawyer tells him to so they effectively are bending me over and ramming it home.
The agreement is so far outside the norm for licensing agreements that it is absurd. The licensor's attorney says this is a "hybrid" situation so it doesn't fall under what a normal licensing situation would entail The only thing "hybrid" about this agreement is that it is so one sided and that if I didn't sign it I might as well declare chapter 7. No other company with a sane CEO that was not desperate would sign an agreement like this.
I feel so damn vulnerable and I am pissed off that I had to be in this situation. I feel just like a prison bitch.
I could go into all the details but I would bore myself and I know them all and no one reads this anyway, but if someone sues my company claiming that the product we are manufacturing under license infringes on another patent we are completely fucked because the inventor is not even claiming to have the rights to license what he is licensing. Were my company sued in this manner we would have no recourse with the inventor.
Normally I would never enter into an agreement that is so one-sided but without this agreement my company is effectively out of business. Eight months ago when our business outside this product we are licensing was good, I would have never signed this agreement and put my company at such risk. But now our core business has dropped off a cliff and the inventor has us by the balls even though he really doesn't know it.
His attorney is not an intellectual property specialist and the attorney I am using most certainly is. It is painfully obvious that the inventor's attorney doesn't know much about intellectual property law. The agreement he as drafted speaks so loudly to this point that I can even see it. Nevertheless the inventor is going by what his lawyer tells him to so they effectively are bending me over and ramming it home.
The agreement is so far outside the norm for licensing agreements that it is absurd. The licensor's attorney says this is a "hybrid" situation so it doesn't fall under what a normal licensing situation would entail The only thing "hybrid" about this agreement is that it is so one sided and that if I didn't sign it I might as well declare chapter 7. No other company with a sane CEO that was not desperate would sign an agreement like this.
I feel so damn vulnerable and I am pissed off that I had to be in this situation. I feel just like a prison bitch.
6/15/2009
Poopin' Milestons
The twins are somewhat potty trained now. Big boy still prefers to poop in his underwear but has the pissing in the toilet thing down. The poop in underweare is always a blast when the poop is not solid. Big girl is about at the same place. I took them to a park yesterday and she pooped in her underwear. The walk they do after they shit their pants is so fucking funny. It is a stiff legged thing. I hope they can put two and two together and figure out that if they hold it until mommy or daddy can take them to a potty it will be a lot more comfortable.
The family is at our mountain house this week and I am here at home trying to go to sleep after preparing for my board meeting in the morning. Business absolutely sucks big donkey you know whats. Our core business is off over 65%. If it weren't for the new product we picked up to manufacture we would most likely be out of business. That opportunity came along at just the right time. If the economy doesn't pick up soon I don't know what the fuck I am going to do.
Ain't life fun.
The family is at our mountain house this week and I am here at home trying to go to sleep after preparing for my board meeting in the morning. Business absolutely sucks big donkey you know whats. Our core business is off over 65%. If it weren't for the new product we picked up to manufacture we would most likely be out of business. That opportunity came along at just the right time. If the economy doesn't pick up soon I don't know what the fuck I am going to do.
Ain't life fun.
6/07/2009
Abstinence Streak Ended
Through no fault of my own the two month abstinence streak ended last night- no blood related children within 30 miles did the trick and I didn't even have to initiate. It was good for me but I am pretty confident it was a major disappointment for the wife.
5/26/2009
When the wife is away
The wife went out with some friends tonight and I cooked the kids dinner played with them, read them books, let them watch the nightly ritual TV of Backyardigans (either this or Barnyard, Max and Ruby, Diego or Dora), read to them again, put diapers and pull ups on and somehow miraculously got them all in bed without their mommy.
So now I am waiting and hoping that mommy comes home horny since it has been almost two months. I have not begged for it because the wife has been going through a very difficult time since her father took his own life at the end of March. It was a horrible, horrible experience that I would wish on no one.
I am optimistic that the wife is starting to feel better and maybe I am a selfish person becuase I want her to have sex with me so soon after this tragic event. I sure as hell am not going to initiate sex now but I wonder how long I would have to wait if I were to wait until she initiated it? It could possibly be six or more months. Unfortunately for both of us our libido is quite different.
So now I am waiting and hoping that mommy comes home horny since it has been almost two months. I have not begged for it because the wife has been going through a very difficult time since her father took his own life at the end of March. It was a horrible, horrible experience that I would wish on no one.
I am optimistic that the wife is starting to feel better and maybe I am a selfish person becuase I want her to have sex with me so soon after this tragic event. I sure as hell am not going to initiate sex now but I wonder how long I would have to wait if I were to wait until she initiated it? It could possibly be six or more months. Unfortunately for both of us our libido is quite different.
5/17/2009
Tractor Shows and Broken Arms
Lolo broke her arm the day before I left for Honduras two weeks ago. It was a Sunday and she was at my Mother-in-law's house playing with her distant cousins and she tried to do a cartwheel while running in flip flops. It snapped both her radius and ulna about in the middle. It was a good break because it did not occur on any of the growth plates so there was no need for pins or screws.
Lolo was a trooper and didn't cry until she thought she was going to get a shot. Her arm looked really horrible as you can see from the picture. Ouch.
She is healing very quickly and she should get her pink cast removed by the middle of June.
Yesterday we all went to the local tractor show and tractor pull. I bought a six pack of deep fried double stuffed Oreo cookies. Never again... enough grease to produce several piggie pornos. We then took the kids to a nice little cafe where an classical guitarist was playing.
I'm tired.
4/14/2009
Unibroue Chambly Noire
I was so pleased with the beer I had last night that I thought I would try another bottle of Unibroue. I purchased a bottle of Chambly Noire. I am not as impressed with this beer. It has the awesome bubbly effervescent sparkle that I love in a bottle fermented beer but it has thin body compared to what I had last night. It doesn't have the sweet undertones that the Trois Pistoles has but it is dark and has a clean taste.
I'm In Three Year Old Hell
I know that what I am experiencing is pretty normal, or at least I hope it is. Trying to put my 3 year old twins to bed causes a LOT of mental anguish on the child's part and the parent's. Both twins always demand that mommy put them to bed and if I carry our son to his room he is screaming at the top of his lungs for his mother. Of course his mother has to tend to his twin who also demands that mommy put her to bed.
If you let the male twin in the same room with the female twin while mommy is putting her to sleep the male twin is bouncing off the walls and knocking shit over while screaming so then the female twin will not settle down and go to sleep. Thus I am forced to remove the male twin from the room and take him to his room producing from him the most unpleasant writing, screaming, kicking, crying and fit pitching one could imagine.
I have tried a small light spank on the rear just to get the boy's attention but only after positivie reinforcemnt fails. Of course the negative reinforcement doesn't work either so when I put the male twin in his bed and try to cover him up he immediately jumps off the bed and bolts for his sister's room where his mother is.
I have to keep reminding myself that he is just three. But this is difficult when it happens EVERY night and it will continue to happen EVERY night until he grows out of it.
I need a beer.
If you let the male twin in the same room with the female twin while mommy is putting her to sleep the male twin is bouncing off the walls and knocking shit over while screaming so then the female twin will not settle down and go to sleep. Thus I am forced to remove the male twin from the room and take him to his room producing from him the most unpleasant writing, screaming, kicking, crying and fit pitching one could imagine.
I have tried a small light spank on the rear just to get the boy's attention but only after positivie reinforcemnt fails. Of course the negative reinforcement doesn't work either so when I put the male twin in his bed and try to cover him up he immediately jumps off the bed and bolts for his sister's room where his mother is.
I have to keep reminding myself that he is just three. But this is difficult when it happens EVERY night and it will continue to happen EVERY night until he grows out of it.
I need a beer.
4/13/2009
Excellent Beer
I love good beers. I am drinking a bottle of Trois Pistoles by Unibroue. It is a bottle fermented beer with 9% alcohol. It tastes really bubbly and full bodied with a full mouth feel (does that also mean full bodied) and I just love the taste. One 750 ml bottle cost me about $7 and had made me feel really good tonight while I sit here watching Star Trek the Next Generation and browsing on the net with this shitty internet connection at our beach condo in North Myrtle Beach. The connection keeps dropping out.
I gotta pee.
I gotta pee.
3/28/2009
Flying Squirrel Follies
I was sitting here in front of this computer earlier tonight and I though I heard some rusting and scratching. I wrote it off as the noises my son makes before he goes to bed since his bedroom is directly above my office.
A few seconds later I heard scurrying and caught a glimpse of something moving on the floor in my peripheral vision. It went around my desk and in a corner piled up with miscellaneous shit. The scurrying noise stopped. I stood up very slowly to get a look. At first I assumed it was a rat but when I saw it I noticed the wide tail. Then it jumped from the floor to the wall. I have a grass cloth wall covering in my office. It climbed right up the wall (as if it had done it many times before- it obviously knew it could get a grip on the wall) and then ran around the perimeter of the room, behind the filing cabinet (I hate papers and I need to get rid of that damn thing) and then to my window sill where it stopped.
It sat there on the window sill about five feet from me and just looked at me. Staring at it closely I noticed that it was a squirrel. I had an old folded shirt on the floor in front of the window so I stood up very slowly and slowly picked up the shirt while the squirrel just stood there looking at me. I threw the shirt on the squirrel and grabbed it up. I squealed a little bit but it was unhurt. I put it in a large bin made of see through plastic and took it upstairs to show the wife.
It didn't look the same as the squirrels we see around here in our yard by the thousands. It was grayish brown and had some stripes that ran from its front legs to its back legs along the sides of it's body. It wasn't much longer than 6 or 7 inches with its tail and it had large eyes. We assumed that it was just a juvenile gray squirrel with an eye problem.
Instead of killing it we decided to let it go. So I took it outside, put the bin on the brick wall surrounding our patio which is about four feet high. I opened the bin and jumped out and then glided about ten feet away before hitting the ground and running away.
At that point I realized that it was a flying squirrel. I didn't even know that we had flying squirrels in this part of the country but by Thor we do!
So now I want to know how that little bastard got in my house and then in my office!
A few seconds later I heard scurrying and caught a glimpse of something moving on the floor in my peripheral vision. It went around my desk and in a corner piled up with miscellaneous shit. The scurrying noise stopped. I stood up very slowly to get a look. At first I assumed it was a rat but when I saw it I noticed the wide tail. Then it jumped from the floor to the wall. I have a grass cloth wall covering in my office. It climbed right up the wall (as if it had done it many times before- it obviously knew it could get a grip on the wall) and then ran around the perimeter of the room, behind the filing cabinet (I hate papers and I need to get rid of that damn thing) and then to my window sill where it stopped.
It sat there on the window sill about five feet from me and just looked at me. Staring at it closely I noticed that it was a squirrel. I had an old folded shirt on the floor in front of the window so I stood up very slowly and slowly picked up the shirt while the squirrel just stood there looking at me. I threw the shirt on the squirrel and grabbed it up. I squealed a little bit but it was unhurt. I put it in a large bin made of see through plastic and took it upstairs to show the wife.
It didn't look the same as the squirrels we see around here in our yard by the thousands. It was grayish brown and had some stripes that ran from its front legs to its back legs along the sides of it's body. It wasn't much longer than 6 or 7 inches with its tail and it had large eyes. We assumed that it was just a juvenile gray squirrel with an eye problem.
Instead of killing it we decided to let it go. So I took it outside, put the bin on the brick wall surrounding our patio which is about four feet high. I opened the bin and jumped out and then glided about ten feet away before hitting the ground and running away.
At that point I realized that it was a flying squirrel. I didn't even know that we had flying squirrels in this part of the country but by Thor we do!
So now I want to know how that little bastard got in my house and then in my office!
3/24/2009
Demanding Little Minions of Satan
The following is a conversation between my almost 3 year old daughter and me:
Adrienne: Where is my blankie Daddy?
Me: I'm sorry honey, I don't know.
Adrienne in an annoyed tone: Well, go get it!
Adrienne: Where is my blankie Daddy?
Me: I'm sorry honey, I don't know.
Adrienne in an annoyed tone: Well, go get it!
3/10/2009
Gimme a 1098, 1099 DIV, 1099 INT, and a K-1
Preparing the information for my accountant to prepare my tax return is becoming extremely burdensome. The properties I own are sucking me dry and I am spending way too much time keeping up with all the bookkeeping. I need a personal secretary. I have already put about five hours into this and I will probably have to take a day off work to get it completed.
Grrrr. Maybe a flat-tax would be better. I better study up on that one.
Grrrr. Maybe a flat-tax would be better. I better study up on that one.
3/09/2009
Life Goes On as Kids get more Smartassed
The wife is sick. She has a cold.
Lolo likes to watch the Food Network. She wanted to see a person's cooking show who she said looks like Uncle Greg but with skikey hair. Well no such person has a show on at 8:00 pm on Monday so she was disappointed.
I need to fill out the forms to turn over my information to my tax accountant but I am so tired and I have been procrastinating.
Out.
Lolo likes to watch the Food Network. She wanted to see a person's cooking show who she said looks like Uncle Greg but with skikey hair. Well no such person has a show on at 8:00 pm on Monday so she was disappointed.
I need to fill out the forms to turn over my information to my tax accountant but I am so tired and I have been procrastinating.
Out.
3/08/2009
Another Glorious Day
We had a great time last night with our friend coming over. They brought their kids and our hellions and theirs played very well together. We ate steak and drank. So I guess I am trying to kill myself with cholesterol and saturated fat.
I had put the trailer on the bike and rode the kids around. Up and down the very steep driveway and up and down the road in front of our house. It was one hell of a workout. Especially after walking the greenway in the morning, picking up sticks, working outside and washing both Volvos. It tired the shit out of me. I guess I am not 20 anymore. Plus my heart rate is still in the 80s, I have not exercised pretty much at all since mid-November, and I am a slacker. All the activity pretty much slammed me. The drinking certainly didn't help. I had two beers and two Makers and Ginger. I was feeling no pain. But I am kinda stupid because I am still on warfarin sodium (coumadin) and I am not supposed to drink because of that medication. Maybe I really am trying to kill myself.
The hellions were SO tired last night after all the play. The twins went to sleep about 8:30 and Lolo didn't go to sleep until about 10:15! I think that might be a record for her.
The wife and I got in bed about 11:30. No nookie for me this weekend.
This morning got rolling like insane as usual. The wife was running late for teaching Sunday school so she took off and I kept all three hellions. We rode bikes and played on the swings. When the wife got back she came to me and pulled me aside because she didn't want to tell me what she was going to tell me in front of the kids. She said through tears that she got a speeding ticket on the way to Sunday school. I guess she was terrified of my reaction.
I just told her not to worry about it and gave her a hug- being the perfect husband that I am.
Since we have been married she has received four speeding tickets- in eight years. Once she had a cop follow her for 5 miles. He told her that he gave her every chance to slow down but she never looked in her rear view mirror and she continued at about 80 mph so he pulled her and ticketed her.
Then last year- I think summer - she got another one and now this one. I used to give her hell about driving too fast. When she got the ticket last summer she told me in no uncertain terms that I was not to rag her about the ticket and that I was not to bring it up again. I have observed her wishes.
Now she has done it again.
I was very nice to her today but I just don't understand it. She is smart enough to know that speeding is dangerous. She is smart enough to know that speeding tickets cost a LOT of money. She knows that she speeds. I have explained to her about how the odds of getting killed go up exponentially when you speed. None of that seems to matter.
At the risk of being considered hypocritical, I have had two speeding tickets in my life. The last one was about eight years ago where I did not notice the reduced speed in a work zone.
This shit really pisses me off. I just don't understand why someone would continue to not pay attention to their speed when they know the facts and that the odds are that they are going to get a ticket. I guess I will continue to keep my mouth shut but it really pisses me off because she drives the kids around. Her failure to pay attention to how fast she is going increases the odds that our kids will be hurt or killed. I guess it is just like that fact that the wife will not normally tighten the 5 point harness in the twins' car seats. She routinely leaves them loose which also significantly increases the probability that they will be seriously injured in a wreck.
Ok, I am finished venting but I am still pissed off about it and the fact that she knows she is wrong but refuses to attempt to modify her behavior even when it can mean that she is sacrificing hers and the kids health and safety. I guess it is kinda like me drinking while taking coumadin. So maybe I am a hypocrite- well at least my behavior is not putting my children's health at risk.
I'm out.
I had put the trailer on the bike and rode the kids around. Up and down the very steep driveway and up and down the road in front of our house. It was one hell of a workout. Especially after walking the greenway in the morning, picking up sticks, working outside and washing both Volvos. It tired the shit out of me. I guess I am not 20 anymore. Plus my heart rate is still in the 80s, I have not exercised pretty much at all since mid-November, and I am a slacker. All the activity pretty much slammed me. The drinking certainly didn't help. I had two beers and two Makers and Ginger. I was feeling no pain. But I am kinda stupid because I am still on warfarin sodium (coumadin) and I am not supposed to drink because of that medication. Maybe I really am trying to kill myself.
The hellions were SO tired last night after all the play. The twins went to sleep about 8:30 and Lolo didn't go to sleep until about 10:15! I think that might be a record for her.
The wife and I got in bed about 11:30. No nookie for me this weekend.
This morning got rolling like insane as usual. The wife was running late for teaching Sunday school so she took off and I kept all three hellions. We rode bikes and played on the swings. When the wife got back she came to me and pulled me aside because she didn't want to tell me what she was going to tell me in front of the kids. She said through tears that she got a speeding ticket on the way to Sunday school. I guess she was terrified of my reaction.
I just told her not to worry about it and gave her a hug- being the perfect husband that I am.
Since we have been married she has received four speeding tickets- in eight years. Once she had a cop follow her for 5 miles. He told her that he gave her every chance to slow down but she never looked in her rear view mirror and she continued at about 80 mph so he pulled her and ticketed her.
Then last year- I think summer - she got another one and now this one. I used to give her hell about driving too fast. When she got the ticket last summer she told me in no uncertain terms that I was not to rag her about the ticket and that I was not to bring it up again. I have observed her wishes.
Now she has done it again.
I was very nice to her today but I just don't understand it. She is smart enough to know that speeding is dangerous. She is smart enough to know that speeding tickets cost a LOT of money. She knows that she speeds. I have explained to her about how the odds of getting killed go up exponentially when you speed. None of that seems to matter.
At the risk of being considered hypocritical, I have had two speeding tickets in my life. The last one was about eight years ago where I did not notice the reduced speed in a work zone.
This shit really pisses me off. I just don't understand why someone would continue to not pay attention to their speed when they know the facts and that the odds are that they are going to get a ticket. I guess I will continue to keep my mouth shut but it really pisses me off because she drives the kids around. Her failure to pay attention to how fast she is going increases the odds that our kids will be hurt or killed. I guess it is just like that fact that the wife will not normally tighten the 5 point harness in the twins' car seats. She routinely leaves them loose which also significantly increases the probability that they will be seriously injured in a wreck.
Ok, I am finished venting but I am still pissed off about it and the fact that she knows she is wrong but refuses to attempt to modify her behavior even when it can mean that she is sacrificing hers and the kids health and safety. I guess it is kinda like me drinking while taking coumadin. So maybe I am a hypocrite- well at least my behavior is not putting my children's health at risk.
I'm out.
3/07/2009
Skiing for the second time and Miscellaneous Rablings
Lolo skied for the second time on Tuesday. She did such a great job! I bought her a private lesson that lasted an hour then she went up the slope called Easy Street with me about five times. She loves skiing.
A-man really wanted to ski too but he is too damn young. Maybe next year he will be able to go.
My business sucks big ones. Orders for our manufactured goods went from an average of 11,000 dozen in September 2007 to an average of about 3,000 dozen this past week. If this keeps up I am quite possibly fucked. I will have to lay off more people and do some drastic downsizing. The economy really, really sucks.
I am listening to Kiss 95.1 in Charlotte. I have been listening to it for about 5 hours while working around the house outside. I washed both Volvos and cleaned out the garage. This damn radio station has played the same songs repeatedly over and over. I hate top 40 radio.
The kids are at the in-laws right now. They went down there yesterday and the wife and I had a night out on our own. We just went to a local Mexican restaurant and then came back home and crashed.
The water heater in our Mountain House is dead and will need to be replaced.
We have friends coming over tonight. Two couples and their kids. Wow, it is nice to have somewhat of a social life every now and then.
A-man really wanted to ski too but he is too damn young. Maybe next year he will be able to go.
My business sucks big ones. Orders for our manufactured goods went from an average of 11,000 dozen in September 2007 to an average of about 3,000 dozen this past week. If this keeps up I am quite possibly fucked. I will have to lay off more people and do some drastic downsizing. The economy really, really sucks.
I am listening to Kiss 95.1 in Charlotte. I have been listening to it for about 5 hours while working around the house outside. I washed both Volvos and cleaned out the garage. This damn radio station has played the same songs repeatedly over and over. I hate top 40 radio.
The kids are at the in-laws right now. They went down there yesterday and the wife and I had a night out on our own. We just went to a local Mexican restaurant and then came back home and crashed.
The water heater in our Mountain House is dead and will need to be replaced.
We have friends coming over tonight. Two couples and their kids. Wow, it is nice to have somewhat of a social life every now and then.
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