Another "Lost Weekend."

Beauty and the Business

I think I am looking very tired. I feel wrinkles, droopy sagging eyes and a heavy head. It's the norm for someone running a business I guess. I went out on Saturday to a few upscale clubs and just felt lethargic. I couldn't move my feet properly to dance as if they were both mired in hardening cement. Sunday was a slopshow, able to stuff face with McDonalds and then get involved in some hapless tennis. Monday morning was started without a shave and shower, it was almost as if I could not believe it was already morning. I think this man needs sleep. 

Otherwise the business has been pretty exciting. Recently we've done services for bed bugs, of course carpenter and pavement ants, termites, mice and rats, and we even did a exclusion for bats and a bat bug service. That was pretty exciting. Right now we're trying to optimize our termite searches to get some more termite accounts. Termites and bed bugs are the profits for a pest control company while regular pest control basically pays bills. Check out the website.

Recession and the City

Dancing with the Devil

I have had a number of very interesting liaisons in recent weeks and paramount are the sort of awkward dates that have come to characterize my interactions with a certain "friend". In a restrained but manipulated manner, I have carefully weaved my hand into the intrigue of attraction yet at go time there seems to be this natural reticence. I want to strike yet I am struck, time and again. I can't seem to understand the motives behind such obviously uncomfortable actions yet I can sense the fear. 

Asking an Irish to drink is like inviting the Devil to dance. There is never a beneficial outcome. Not entirely the case I would have to hope for my own sake, but the social habit of relying on drink to lubricate speech flow in the awkwardness of forced intimacy is something I am trying to squash. 

Picking up and moving - Boston

Artist's interpretation of the times

Big East Reigns on Mar 27, 2009

The Big East is really, really Big. Already poised with 3 of 4 teams entering the Elite 8 from last night's results, 2 more Big East teams are waiting to tap off tonight. And these teams are breathing down hard on Elite 8 status; Louisville, the overall first seeded team, and a Syracuse squad that no one seems able to slow down. Could it be possible to get 5 teams into the final 8? How does this now look for PC, a 19-13 bubble bust? I think PC's 10-8 record in conference makes clear of their status as an above-average team with potential to be good, but suffering from bouts of inopportune mediocrity. Only in instances could we make out a concise unity in their play that makes basketball teams great, far too often it was replaced with little effort into a numskull-esque, reckless performance, that left PC supporters embarrassed and basketball fans shaking heads (and writing them off as amateurs). Only from hard stats can PC manipulate its season into one so tournament worthy, yet it took all but one NIT game to vindicate its naysayers. Hopefully, the PC of '08-'09 can outlive some of this disappointing season with a bittersweet finish for the country's best college basketball conference. Never thought I could say this without reservations, but assuredly it is in the hearts of the all those PC... Go Pitt and UConn, Go 'Nova and 'Cuse, and even a lowercase 'go' for Louisville (even though it was Louisville who effectively ended PC's dream of a tournament berth this season). 

Boston's Sustainable Future

For those of you with an interest in green community events, next weekend Apr 3-5, the Hynes Covention Center in Boston is hosting down2earth: an exploration into sustainable living. As you may be aware, Blog Riotus is concerned with the environment and sustainable living. The cost for admission is $10 for any weekend day and the doors open at 11a. I am sure something there will spark some interest. My company, Green Planet, which is a ecological-minded pest solutions company, will be there in force, networking with other like-minded businesses and getting our name out to the green community.