The good news is I’m still alive and well and finally going Mac after 20 years of Wintel oppression. Aside from that, the only positive thing I can think of to say is the second half has got to be better.
The 2009 Halftime Report: 10 Random Impressions
- Calling it an insane year would be a ludicrous understatement; but you and I are still standing, at least for now. It could be worse - check out this Business Pundit post Nightmare Layoff, the Singapore way.
- Have you seen any signs of all the spent stimulus money? I haven’t. But I have seen an excellent solar company acquired in a fire sale. Isn’t alternative energy supposed to be a priority?
- We built a new house at the peak of the housing bubble, so it’s probably worth about half what we paid to build it. That’s okay as long as my wife doesn’t divorce me.
- It’s finally happened: there are too many things to worry about to actually worry. Inflation, income, California’s economy, America’s economy, the value of my house, Cap and Trade and my skyrocketing energy bill, what’s going to happen to my health care? My limbic system is officially overwhelmed.
- I sure am drinking a lot of wine these days. Wonder why. At least it’s less expensive wine.
- With no IPOs, who needs all those old investment banks, anyway? But seriously, the banking industry somehow always ends up on top. In ten years they’ll be behind another bubble, just wait and see.
- Our financial system in ruins and all the attention’s on CEO pay (as it should be, sort of) but athletes and actors are still raking in megabucks beyond all sensibility.
- Twitter’s an interesting phenomenon, but the 1 percent that does 99 percent of the tweeting, like a hundred times a day, I mean, who are these people? Do they have lives?
- With all that money sitting on the sidelines, I can’t help but wonder what all those Silicon Valley VCs are doing with their time; sitting around talking about the good old days?
- Polluting the environment is bad, but I still don’t think global warming is a real problem we should be doing anything about. Mark my words: twenty years from now people will be saying Atkins diet, male enhancement, colon cleansing, and global warming all in one breath.
If I’m still blogging The Corner Office for BNET in 2010, I’ll probably do this again.
