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Once again it’s Memorial Day weekend, and for us it means
“back to the grind.” It’s kinda funny
how things have changed, where summer is now the busy season and the rest of
the year isn’t. When I was a student,
fall was the start of it all, and late May/early June meant the end. Once I got into the real world it was the
same thing – my first FT job was with a bank directly across from the
University of Michigan campus, so our busiest times always related to the
school year. Then I went back to college
myself, then taught (along with my radio duties), so the calendar was always
the same thing. Even once I got into
Market Research, it seemed that our slowest time was summer, since it was more
difficult to reach people via phone during that time (and the clients would
also seem to disappear for weeks at a time in July and August).
Now, for the last 14 years, summer has meant the busy
season, or, as they say around here, the “high season” (though with the new
marijuana laws going into effect in July they might want to reconsider). And once again we gird our loins for
seven-days-a-week action. It’s only 8-10
hours a day now, but once school is out, you can bump that up another couple of
hours. Since we make about 70% of our
revenue in the next 14 weeks, it’s difficult to gripe about 90-hour work weeks,
as that’s when the customer base is here and that’s how we pay the rent (and
ourselves). Still, it was easier to do
when I was 52. That seems like a decade
ago now.
What this does mean, however, is the temporary hiatus of the
“Wanna Bet” blog. I know you’re crying
now, but cheer up – come September I’ll be back at it, and it’s not like I’m
not still here. I’m just not…here. I will continue to troll Sheldon and his CSIG
minions over at the Coalition
to Counteract the Coalition to Stop Online Gambling, and I will follow (and
participate in) the advocacy action as we gain a foothold in Pennsylvania and
argue once again about California and fight Jason Chaffetz and Lindsey
(no-email) Graham in Washington…and it looks like we’ll be fighting Harry
(turncoat) Reid, too. A note about
Chaffetz – he might be out of action for a while as he announced that he’s undergoing
gallbladder surgery. I thought this strange as it appears to me that he already had plenty of gall.
See? Won’t you miss
me a little?
Nah. I’ll still be
here, in spirit if not in print. I
actually did four posts last summer – not sure how I found the time, but I
certainly had the motivation. The Newsweak
sham piece on online gambling, James
Thackston’s decrepit software, and a couple of other anti-Sheldon pieces
that almost wrote themselves. If that
clownass acts up again this summer, I’ll do my best.
And in 14 short weeks, it’ll all be over. Mostly.
Except for taxes.
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