Good day all.

I agree Pip, if I have the computer on, I get nothing else done.

I'm not seeing a whole lot on my plate today. The day may go smoothly.

Ugh. I was up at 3am getting sick. Came back to bed and hubby was up at 4am until 5:30am getting sick both ways. I think the stomach flu may have hit our house. I only had a one time deal basically so I came to work. I'm still wondering if my food just didn't agree with me but hubby is shivering and everything. He stayed home. He was still having issues when I left. My stomach is a bit off but I'm gonna try to eat something and see if it helps.

I had weird dreams too. First one before I was sick, I was pregnant. The one before I realized hubby was up and sick- my step-daughter's half-brother(who was younger in this) was put in our fish tank to calm him because he was crying. Apparently he could breathe in water and he liked it. It eventually disturbed me and I pulled him out.

Carry on...

hope Mr Woo feels better and you too Woo.

Morning everyone else

Not sure if it is a diploma issuing event, Emily and I saw about 20 snowflakes before dance started. I was sad cause it snowed in a lot of areas, but not by me....

aww ruby! One of my friends in NC shared this pic with me of her snow: SNOW PIC

I was hoping for you.

Howdy.

I was up from 3:30 - 4:15 too. A server got overloaded and quit responding long enough to set off the monitoring.

On with the day!

Morning. Sunny an 20 degrees here now.

Seems like we had some early starts around here. You people that need it should nap.

It should be the same crap just on a different day for me today.

Hump on.

Morning again, all. I've been at the office for a bit. It never starts the day on the right note when someone is standing at my desk waiting for me when I come in. Oh well... that issue has been taken care of for now.

Woo... sorry you and your hubby are not feeling so hot.

Pip... good luck with the hole drilling.

JD... you've probably guessed the announcment correctly. Bummer!

HI everybody else! Hope everyone is having a great day anyway.

Not necessarily JD. You will probably stay and you voluntarily leaving won't help anyone. They may lay off full-time employees. We all know that, no matter where you work, us full-time folk cost a lot more that part-time people. If it is costs they are cutting, your $7.50/hr job doesn't compare with someone's imputed cost of $35/hr job.

ewww.....yea......

Profits down 65% for U.S. Bank
By Paul Gores of the Journal Sentinel

Posted: Jan. 21, 2009 11:51 a.m.

The parent company of U.S. Bank said today that profits fell 65% in the fourth quarter as it added almost $1.3 billion to reserves to cover loans that could go bad.

Minneapolis-based U.S. Bancorp reported fourth-quarter net income of $330 million, or 15 cents per share, compared with $942 million, or 54 cents, in the same period last year.

"Although we were able to absorb the increased cost of credit and market-related write-downs, I am disappointed with the overall decline in this quarter's earnings," Richard K. Davis, chairman, president and chief executive, said in a news release.

However, Davis noted that the bank has remained profitable in a difficult economic environment and continues making new loans.

"Importantly, during the fourth quarter, our business lines originated over $16 billion in new loans to businesses and consumers," Davis said.

U.S. Bancorp, formerly Milwaukee-based Firstar Corp., has 121 branches in Wisconsin and is second in deposit market share in the state to M&I Bank, according to Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. figures.

By late morning, U.S. Bancorp stock was down $2.38, or 15.5%, to $12.96. That's well off the 52-week high of $42.23.

ya thats who I work for. DUH!


just kiddin. ya. I shoulda made that clearer.

JD The Jazz Doctor wrote:

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ya thats who I work for. DUH!

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And here I was feelin' bad for ya! 

 

I stopped looking fuzzy. just reduced the contributions down to 2% to try and ride this out with more cash on hand....

I was thinking about this a bit back, our 401k administrator said "well a down market is good for investors. You buy more shares at a better price. The chances of 1000 shares going up a penny is much more likely than 10 shares going up a dollar.

Fine, good. But with what money am I buying them shares? You done lost my money thus far.

I know. The problem is the shares need to rise. If they are still falling it doesn't do us any good. Oh well. I was a bit bummed after I looked at that last night. Silly me.

Note to self: win big lottery jackpot and live off the interest.