Another one of those days

So far it’s been one of those days where I wish I’d just turned off the iPhone alarm, rolled over and went back to bed.  Unfortunately, given that I had four clients on the calendar, an interview coming up at 6:20 p.m. (guess it’s a good thing it wasn’t scheduled for 4:20) and a film screening afterwards, that wasn’t an option.  I consider myself lucky I was only at the office 45 minutes beyond the scheduled time.  Somehow I managed to leave with more work to be done than I had before I arrived there.  I hate when that happens.

I’m actually going to have a good day tomorrow.  I thought I had two screenings scheduled, but that’s next Wednesday.  So I’m going to go to a bargain matinee movie and then come home and watch two or three movies I have on DVD.  Two are from tax clients and the third is a screener I need to review.  Hopefully we will field a team for trivia to defend last week’s Weds night title.

I’d never heard of Lululemon until 2010 when I was doing 2009 tax returns.  There was a Lululemon location near my office and one of the women working there came in and I did her return.  She was very pleased and referred a number of the store’s other employees to me.  So I wandered over when I had a moment to see what they were.  I’m saddened to hear that their stock is taking a hit for something that doesn’t appear to be their fault.

Apparently some people don’t grasp the meaning of the word “re-boot” when it comes to movie franchises.  I don’t know any other way to explain that people are wondering if the Daniel Craig “Bond” films are “prequels” to those previously released.

American Airlines is trying to defend a severance payment it will be making to its CEO in the amount of $20 million, to a bankruptcy trustee.  It is indefensible.  When a company is in profit mode, let it pay its CEOs what it wants.  When it is bankrupt and trying to not pay creditors…enough said.

Anyone wanting more evidence that Hollywood has little interest in new ideas need only look at the latest regarding a big screen version of “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.”, a TV series that hasn’t aired during the lifetime of much of the prime movie-going audience.

This Date in History:

On this date in 1279, a Mongolian victory ends the Song Dynasty in China.
On this date in 1863, the SS Georgiana, a Confederate cruiser, sinks.
On this date in 1918, the Congress approves Daylight Savings Time and establishes time zones.
On this date in 1920, the U.S. Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles.  Again.
On this date in 1931, gambling is legalized in Nevada.
On this date in 1941, the 99^th Pursuit Squadron is activated.  They are better known as “The Tuskegee Airmen”.
On this date in 1954, Willie Mosconi set a world record by running 526 consecutive balls playing straight pool.  The record still stands today.
On this date in 1965, the SS Georgiana’s wreck is discovered, 102 years to the day it was destroyed.
On this date in 1966, Texas-Western becomes the first university to win the NCAA men’s basketball Final Four with an all-black starting line-up.
On this date in 1979, the House of Representatives begin broadcasting their day-to-day business on C-SPAN.

Famous Folk Born On this Date:

David Livingstone (“Dr. Livingstone, I presume”)
Wyatt Earp
William Jennings Bryan
Joseph Stilwell
Earl Warren
Brent Scowcroft
Philip Roth
Clarence “Frogman” Henry
Sirhan Sirhan
Glenn Close
Harvey Weinstein

Bruce Willis

Neil LaBute