In case you're wondering, and frankly even if you're not, today I had 6 cigarettes. I probably could have stopped at 5 and tomorrow I plan to. Speaking of tomorrow I need to go to the DMV, turns out my license expired this year on my birthday -- and that was a few days ago. I hope they don't make me take the test.
The SF WorldCon is happening next week in Glasgow, Scotland. Some day I'm going to make it to one of those. Instead I'll be at the Vegas Star Trek convention the week after. I expect that I'll be able to read about WorldCon in various posts in other places...I'll have to scour the web.
I read an article today about a female sales executive who lost her job and has sued her employer alleging that her termination was based on unlawful discrimination.
The thing that astonishes me is that they fired her after she lost 3 of her quadruplets. Shocking enough if she had lost them all at once but even more heartrending is that she lost two of them, then a third before she finally carried the fourth to term. Maybe the company legally had grounds to terminate. Maybe it was a "solid business decision" But didn't anyone think "PR disaster?" It makes this company look really bad and frankly they're going to have a hard time spinning it in any positive direction. I can't begin to comprehend what her boss and ultimately HR was thinking. If this goes before a jury the company that fired her is hosed. I bet they settle and quickly. My advice: get cash, not stocks.
Still not up to writing about the rest of the Ireland trip. Once I get feeling guilty enough it will happen.
Posted by Dawno at July 27, 2005 10:03 PMI cannot believe it...I forgot to wish you Happy Birthday. So this is wayyyyy belated. I need to visit here more, and get more of the scoop on the Odawnster.