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[AlohaDawg]

...try unsuccessfully to post a link to www.squirrelunder******.com. I am so not amused anymore.

don't worry, we get the gist. Will the debate cover the important issue of Y-fronts for small mamals tonight?

[theinevitable]

man, falling asleep at the foot of the toilet is not really that fun at all.

Hopefully today will have a better outcome. Grocery shopping, laundry-doing, CD reviewing.

[Doc]

Drive down to the beach with some friends and get rear ended just as we get there.
Everyone was fine but the car's a write off and people were all too stressed to want to go to the beach anyway which was my vote.
Bugger.

[theinevitable]

um, golfhaus, how are things in charlotte?
is there blood running in the streets? are people burning their houses to the ground? mass suicides in country club dining rooms?

I would call my parents, but I'm trying to put off the part where they tell me I need to drop out of school and come home to work on the mines.

[theinevitable]

i can't tell if you're kidding lately/ever, to be honest.

wachovia is all kinds of getting screwed up, and is getting bought out by Citibank. It is headquartered in Charlotte and employs a huge number of people there. Until 2 years ago my dad worked there. lately they've been more or less begging him to come back, apparently, and last time I talked to my mom he was thinking of taking it. Right now he works at e*trade at a high-level executive job. But I know he still has/had a lot of stock in Wachovia.

[Arachno-capitalist]

The CEO of Wachovia, Rob Steel, was on CNBC just last week telling the world how solid his bank is and said they only had $10b in bad debt. Today it came out that he actually has $60-80b. I guess thats a rounding error?
I haven't heard anything like massive layoffs, but I am planning for the eventual revolution in the second great depression. I think Ill be a blacksmith, or a wheelwright.

[Doc]

Wheelwright? Pah! Ye break yer pappy's heart taking on such airs and graces.

[CortJstr]

Today I'm going to learn Wachovia was headquartered in Charlotte. And to think, just a few short years ago it was just that bank nobody had heard of that was taking over all the other banks.

[Golfhaus]

My first bank account was a Central Fidelity account, which became a Wachovia account during that buy-fest they went on. I went with BofA when I got married because my wife had an account there. No riots in the streets yet (maybe if it had been BofA packing up), but it sucks for me because I was thinking today about throwing my resume up on the wall and see if I could drum up some interest somewhere. But if Wachovia is going to send a few thousand people with college degrees into the pool, I have to accept that I'm stuck where I am, and perhaps even a little lucky that I'm there.

Lately, what we've been dealing with is almost a week of not having any damn gas. My wife had to use a sick day on Friday (my boss let me work from home) because we didn't have enough gas to make it to work, much less back. I think they're saying two of every five gas stations have ANY gas. The lines are averaging a half hour, one guy over the weekend got arrested for pulling a gun on a guy that he thought cut him in line. If there's any silver lining, it's that Pat McCrory got out on Thursday and said "THE GAS IS COMING TOMORROW, EVERYTHING WILL BE BACK TO NORMAL THIS WEEKEND" and it's still not. So fat chance of him winning the governor's seat now - people in Charlotte want to give him a wedgie, not a promotion.

[littlefallsmets]

Something with a Tutonic sounding name taking over the world?

You don't say.

[theinevitable]

actually, the current (or former?) Wachovia is really mostly First Union. First Union bought Wachovia, but part of the deal was that they'd keep the wachovia name.

oh, in other news, my school is tarting it up for the VP Debates this thursday.

it is embarassing that they think it is a good idea to take gorgeous, classy old buildings and put big banners that say 'WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS' on them. Also, that based on the press kits we got for the radio station, they gave out stuff that is basically "hey! Wouldn't it be cool to do a feature for your news outlet about how darn great this school is?"

I am mad that I didn't apply for a press kit.

[jaydub]

..sneak the wife and little one out for a restaurant lunch.  The great thing about wee ones is all they do is sleep.  They're like little timers.  Feed them, they sleep for 3 hours, then wake up and screech for more food.

I would make an unkind comparison to some of my coworkers, but it wouldn't be the truth.  Some of them don't eat.  Or sleep.

[Arachno-capitalist]

Lately, what we've been dealing with is almost a week of not having any damn gas. My wife had to use a sick day on Friday (my boss let me work from home) because we didn't have enough gas to make it to work, much less back. I think they're saying two of every five gas stations have ANY gas. The lines are averaging a half hour, one guy over the weekend got arrested for pulling a gun on a guy that he thought cut him in line. If there's any silver lining, it's that Pat McCrory got out on Thursday and said "THE GAS IS COMING TOMORROW, EVERYTHING WILL BE BACK TO NORMAL THIS WEEKEND" and it's still not. So fat chance of him winning the governor's seat now - people in Charlotte want to give him a wedgie, not a promotion.

Is there some physical infrastructure problem preventing the delivery of gas? Or do you have price controls in place that prevent a gas station from raising prices to say, $5, and having gasoline trucks lined up to deliver?

[wombat]

A-Cap, you make it sound like it is poor Golfhaus's personal fault. I am sure he has no price controls, much as he might like.

From the AP:

The shortage started with the one-two punch of Hurricanes Gustav and Ike, which shut down refineries along the Gulf Coast. Now, more than two weeks after Ike, many refineries are still making fuel at reduced levels.

While other parts of the country get gasoline from a variety of domestic and overseas sources, the Southeast relies heavily on two pipelines that carry fuel from the Gulf of Mexico. Because the gasoline moves at just 3 to 5 mph, it can take up to 10 days to reach Atlanta.

Gasoline can't go more than five MPH. Who'd have thought?

[theinevitable]

tonight my roommate made a delicious roast with rice pilaf for dinner.

L'shanah tovah!