November 26th, 2008 Al Kalter
It’s a short week here at APPX Software, and at most businesses in the US, as we take Thursday off to fill our faces with food, family, and football, and then stay home on Friday to recover. There may be no more authentic American holiday than Thanksgiving. It’s one that wasn’t invented by a greeting card company, although you can certainly buy Happy Thanksgiving cards at your local store. It doesn’t have a religious basis to it, although expressing one’s gratitude is certainly a significant tenet of most religions. And it does not recognize an individual, or a group of individuals (presidents, veterans) as other holidays do. We may attribute its origin to the Pilgrims, but it truly has become all about family. Except, perhaps, for the turkeys.
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November 19th, 2008 Al Kalter
I paid $1.94 a gallon for gas this week. Since I spent a few earlier posts complaining about the high prices of fuel, it’s only fair to report this latest, unexpected development. Never did I even dream that we’d be able to buy gas for under $2 a gallon again. Can it last? Will it go lower? My guess would be that the answer is no for both of those questions. But in the meantime, people are smiling at the pumps again.
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November 10th, 2008 Al Kalter
Well, it’s been a while, so I’ll offer an apology and an excuse. The apology is for allowing more than two weeks to slip by without a new blog. The excuse is that I was out of the country for 10 days (as if they don’t have internet access there). Anyway, with your permission, I’ll comment on some things that happened over the past 19 days.
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