The seer speaketh
Sep. 2nd, 2005 07:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peterbirksGeorge W Bush on ABC last night.
"I don't think anyone anticipated a breach of the levees. They did anticipate a serious storm, but those levees got breached".
Birks blog on Sunday, 18 hours before Katrina hit New Orleans.
[New Orleans is] seriously in danger of a kind of flooded and destroyed fucked that we haven't seen in a major US city since San Francisco in 1906. Most of this will be because of flooding (the famous Katrina Waves....) that, if the levees break, will move through a city that for various reasons was built mainly below sea level.
Clearly he has the wrong advisers....
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Although George W doesn't read this blog (but should), it appears sometimes that the rest of the world does. No sooner do I say that I might just spend the month bonus hunting, when Party offers me 30% bonus up to $200, possibly in addition to the regular monthly reload bonus. Bastards.
And then, just when I admit that I am a horrible risk-averse coward when it comes to potentially life-changing decisions, my ex-boss telephones me, tells me that he is going back into business (he sold up his old business to the company for whom I currently work nearly five years ago), and asks me to join him in his "new venture". And I start worrying about reward-to-risk ratios, etc etc. We're having lunch next week, so I'll see what he wants to offer and what he has in mind. But, stick-in-the mud that I am, I can see myself staying here.
"I don't think anyone anticipated a breach of the levees. They did anticipate a serious storm, but those levees got breached".
Birks blog on Sunday, 18 hours before Katrina hit New Orleans.
[New Orleans is] seriously in danger of a kind of flooded and destroyed fucked that we haven't seen in a major US city since San Francisco in 1906. Most of this will be because of flooding (the famous Katrina Waves....) that, if the levees break, will move through a city that for various reasons was built mainly below sea level.
Clearly he has the wrong advisers....
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Although George W doesn't read this blog (but should), it appears sometimes that the rest of the world does. No sooner do I say that I might just spend the month bonus hunting, when Party offers me 30% bonus up to $200, possibly in addition to the regular monthly reload bonus. Bastards.
And then, just when I admit that I am a horrible risk-averse coward when it comes to potentially life-changing decisions, my ex-boss telephones me, tells me that he is going back into business (he sold up his old business to the company for whom I currently work nearly five years ago), and asks me to join him in his "new venture". And I start worrying about reward-to-risk ratios, etc etc. We're having lunch next week, so I'll see what he wants to offer and what he has in mind. But, stick-in-the mud that I am, I can see myself staying here.
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Date: 2005-09-02 08:26 am (UTC)I know you're risk-averse but I would have thought you'd be keener to be in there haggling for an equity share in the new business. After all if your ex-boss has sold out once he's a lot more likely to do the same in another few years time. That very fact might be a good bargaining card. In some ways I would have thought that this is the kind of therapy you probably need. Some kind of challenge like that is more 'fun' than what you do right now surely.
But you've got the knowledge to weigh up whether this is a 55/45 bet. Just make the evaluation and size up the odds.