November Happenings

On the investment house front, Sharon and I are promoting the availability of the house at the Xion Solutions site. So far we’ve had a couple nibbles but nothing solid yet. We’ll keep at it.

The last few weeks at work have been busy, gearing up for FY11 plans, budgets, forecasts, etc. Having gone through this process for the last several years at Capcom, I’m pretty well prepared for what’s happened so far. We’ll be having meetings in Japan in about two weeks to go over consolidated figures among all of the business units and territories on the second pass submissions. I’m also having a lot of meetings with several producers to get updates on some projects in development I haven’t seen first hand in many months. I’m looking forward to the trip actually.

In other travel news, I just got back from a “day trip” to NYC. I did manage to see my parents for dinner (some old school Italian place on Resturant Row) the night before some meetings at Marvel, so that was nice. The same day I made that trip I got my confirmation from United that I’m good for another year of 1K status  (I want my Global Services status back still though… maybe my Japan trip in December will tip me over). Unfortunately, despite that I was still #10 on the upgrade list for my flight back from JFK to SFO. That route always seems to have a TON of global services, higher 1K mileage customers.

This week is Thanksgiving week and technically I’m on forced vacation for the couple days that I didn’t already have off as a company holiday. Even though I didn’t plan it, it’s nice actually. Today I spent the day with Kaiya and Sharon, had lunch with the in-laws. Ran a couple of errands. Tomorrow I’ll do a few things at the investment house (I still need to get the damn lawnmower running to mow the lawn) and get a massage. In the afternoon, Sharon and I are hoping to see Harry Potter 7 in Imax which is something she and I have been looking forward to for a long time.

For Thanksgiving, it’ll just be the inlaws and us. We had a couple of other guests lined up but in the end, they wound up making other plans.