Back from Vacation

Hey- I took a little family vacation last week. Spent some time with the family having fun. It was great to get away from it all! Yesterday was a clean up day, cleaning up mail, email, voicemail, minor operational issues, a 2 hour managers meeting - so no time for a post.

I've got a couple of updates for you.

• New manager seems to be getting on well so far, pretty much a flawless week although he did have plenty of oversight from our current senior manager and only had to run the show one day while I was gone - but did well nonetheless!
• Biz is basically flat, we had a little bit rougher of a month in July than I was expecting/hoping for - profit was down because certain expenses are loaded into the summer months because that is usually when cash flow is best, however this year, cashflow has been somewhat flat of course, so it is pinching profitability even further.
• August has historically been better than July but the jury is definitely still out on that one. Our first week is flat over July's numbers so we will have to wait and see.
• The world of high finance seems to think things are moving in the right direction, market had a good week last week and oil prices are falling, back to reality that is! In that department there was a great article from Ben Stein about the oil market.

I'll try to post later with some more updates but thats all for this morning.