Cut The Body Loose!

As in “How’s the job going, doing, coming, etc?”.

You mean what I have just lately come to call my “day job”.  I work for a company in Houston, but I just go up the river a ways to do that, at a location I’d like to keep vague.  I understand they miss me there, I have been on a health leave for several weeks.  On Monday I will return to work, at least I think so, and then I am told the position will not be funded in 2011 so it ends Dec 31st 2010, five and a half months work, maybe six with a notice at the end.

So I will be happy to go back to work there until the end of the year, and I will use my spare time to work on growing my side business, Terrific.IT LLC , such that it will support three couples or six adults and their children to come starting at New Years Day 2011.

Best regards,

David W.

David E. Wadleigh
President & CIO
Terrific.IT LLC

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Are you good?  More than simply checking for good behavior , being good has now come to include the status and condition of our life,.  Are our needs and perhaps some wants met?  Are we are hale and hearty?  Satisfied with our lot, and prepared for tomorrow and our future?  Then you are good.

So what about your investments?  You good?  Nearly every person I speak to says their net worth took a hit in 2008, usually by the falling housing market and the stock market 401K’s got hit too.  What will 2009 bring, other than the job losses we see in the first half at least?  Will our economy bottom and bounce a litte up again this year? Is it time to double down on our equity investments yet?  I mean, if you are going to buy low, then we must be getting to the time to buy soon with these record lows.

What about those job losses?  I guess a lot of folks will be forced into early retirement.  Some of these might actually afford to retire, others will want to work albeit perhaps less than full time or for less than previous pay at less demanding jobs.  One thing I experienced in Calgary in the early 90’s economic bust there was that enemployed people with bills to pay soon become very entrepreneurial as it is one of very few things you can do to survive or even thrive without a job.  Have you got a plan to retire, to scale back, or to get entrepreneurial if the ecomony doesn’t provide a traditional job?

Comments welcome, are you good?

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Several thousand unique threads of fact, opinion or thought, delivered in the form of emails, txts, sms, im, www, face, voice, video links come rushing at us every day.  Life is so much more complex this way than when our anscestors sat in trees or caves and grunted shreiked or grunted their joys and frustrations.

Takes hurricanes, they used to just whack us – we once had no forecasts or satelite photos.  No warning or even acknowledgement that it was only a hurricane was given  in the middle of the thing, our anscestors had no way to even know the storm would sometime end.

Todays ecomonic rush to the bottom is in my mind like droughts and pestulance must have been for our ancestors.  An attack on crops (income) or wealth (stored crops) to threaten securtity.  It is a problem that most of us did not really see coming, if we are honest with ourselves.  At least even the best of us did not know the timing.  How did our ancestors deal with problems they couldn’t forecast or predict?

So today the problems we solve are ones where we have no shortage of different opinions and ideas, forecasts, projections, pundits advice columns, etc.  We often today can even manage to understand and model the effect of solving one problem in different ways would have on the outcome of the other problems!  What has stayed constant is that some members of our tribe, party, clan or neighborhood have done well enough to help lift us all.

The thing I notice about Obama and other successful folks is that they are seldom found idle, usually they are busy working in every “spare” moment, especially when the work consists of thinking and communicating.  So this is how I feel I am motivated by our new President, to get busy and to do whatever small part I can towards fixing problems of the country.  All our ability to forecast and understand the future outcome of our actions will only move us forward if our leaders still continue to make a constant effort and not grow idle or get stuck on some single thing.

Incidently, I slept for 16 hours earlier this weekend, so NOW I am kicking into gear.  Yes, I see the irony in that.

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We must greaten Greater New Orleans, and it will take a lot of greatening.

Now we have a President who will keep the broken promises though, so I hope (pray) for first class levies and rebuilding wet lands.

I savor the idea that something might actually get fixed up here after people aren’t worried about the levies.

I find that it also motivates me personally to “greaten” a few things in my life, to do stuff and checki it off, to move forward.

What can we, you and I, do to help greaten Greater New Orleans?

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