Whoa, hey, a post that has nothing whatsoever to do with baseball!?Hello again and welcome to real life circa fall 2007, which is just getting back underway as I write this. Let's do some updating of where things are at this moment in time, shall we?
After three months of dicking and dallying around with two different dentists getting bite molds done, a root canal performed, a few cavities (re)filled, and my roots scraped so deeply I thought I might lose an eye or get a hole in my chin, I have a crown at last, and it feels awful. Huzzah!
That is the good news.
The bad news? I am also right back to square one again in a monetary sense after having burned up all of my carefully-maintained emergency funds over this ongoing dental adventure (the costs of which I greatly underestimated at the outset, apparently). So, in addition to maintaining minty oral freshness, I am now back to performing breathtaking feats of financial gymnastics as I seek to sprint through the next two months keeping bills caught up, setting aside some more money for an cleaning appointment in three weeks and getting a Christmas shopping plan ready for a few weeks after that.
The situation at work is still cautiously optimistic, though we took a punch in the mouth in September figures-wise. While we were against a freakishly busy month, this still knocks us back from being flat with the year-to-date 2006 figures a bit and we're hoping to make that up by the time the holidays roll around ... though with October coming in as underwhelming at is has been, we're now looking at long odds of having another "up" year. Not helping matters much is an absolutely anemic fourth-quarter release schedule and, perhaps, some increased competition in the form of a shiny new Target location that opened a few miles down the road from us.
Lastly, in the category of "any publicity = good publicity," the store had a backhandedly positive mention in a recent "Best Of Cleveland" poll run by Scene magazine. Apparently, our most notable feature at the store is our amazing cassette tape selection! This is tantamount to handing Best Buy an achievement award for their magazine rack. Even funnier still, we were just talking a few months ago about finally ridding ourselves of these things once and for all, and now we're actually selling them too well to do so, thanks to this article. Life remains chock full of surprises ...
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