2005-11-11
Work
Wednesday was an interesting day. It started on Tuesday when, at 4:00pm, we received an email from the president of our company. He said there would be an all company meeting at 3:30 on Wednesday and that you had better have a good reason to miss it if you can’t be there.
Hmm…
Well, we come to find out that our company is being sold. There’s a story at the StarTribune. This was one of those “worst kept secret” types of things. Many people figured it was happening, but not to who or when. Now that it’s done, a lot of the business things that have happened over the last 6 months or so suddenly make sense.
There is, of course, the usual mix of people who think it’s good and those who think it’s the worst thing ever. I fall on the “good” side. My friends probably aren’t surprised at that, being the eternal optimist that I am, but I seriously think it’s good for the company. Our previous (current) parent company isn’t really focused on our industry and has sold off other, more profitable, businesses in the last couple of years, so it only makes sense that they’d sell us too.
Plus they’re offering us retention plans, so that’s nice. Of course, the rumor is a certain percentage, which some people think is good, and others think is terribly small.
Anyway, we’ll see how it shakes out. I’m not surprisingly optimistic, but you never know.
Scotch
What’s better than sitting with your wonderful and lovely wife, kicking back and relaxing on a Thursday night? Well, nothing really, but a close second may be receiving a Dial-A-Shot from AlCantHang. Nothing like getting a call asking for Scotch advice. Of course, he’s asking for advice to get Scotch for people who are actually from the UK, so the pressure was on. Not sure how it turned out, but there was a shot of SoCo downed in flyover land in coordination with one at the Boathouse.
Poker
On the poker front, I will be playing in a home tourney next week. This is another in the semi-regular “Dirk’s Tourney” series which just happens to be about the best run tourneys around. Buy in is $30 with $20 rebuys for the first 90 minutes. I’m already trying to instill fear by saying I’m only bringing $30. I also make sure to remind them that they’ll be playing against a Professional Poker Player (TM) and, let’s not forget, the 21st best poker playing blogger in the world. So far it hasn’t worked, but there’s still a week left… 
November 14th, 2005 at 1:31 pm
I had Hickory on my “watch list” for a while. Looks like a small company that could really take off.
November 14th, 2005 at 1:33 pm
Chris, your comment thing is very hard to read. It took me 3 tries to see it was a D, not a 0. FYI.
November 16th, 2005 at 7:17 pm
I think your friends should be neverous about playing against a proffessional poker player… but I think your 21st best poker blogger is a little less threatening