[sammyg2]

I was at our corporate offices in San Antonio all week hob-nobbing with the bigs, yesterday they took me up the the 12th floor where the executives live. Not very many regular folk ever get up there.

I sat in the head chair in the board room, the chair that's reserved for the chairman.
Kinda silly but still kinda neat. I popped off a few BS orders to see how it felt. This room was worth a couple million easy, the chairs were probably $25k a pop. The table was huge and probably cost a couple hundred K. We're talking lavish.

I also spent a half hour or so on the trading floor with the VP of sales and marketing. Totally not what I expected. Very structured, not crazy or wild at all. Just a few hundred very smart people making deals that could save or lose $100k in seconds, and they do that all day.
They have all kinds of stress relievers, ping pong table, nurf darts, nurf frisbees, nurf golf sets, just in case they start to lose it.

BTW the big screens on the trading floor that weren't displaying some sort of stock figures or prices or spread sheets were all tuned to FOX NEWS!

I asked the VP about that, he said Fox is a bit slanted but it the most accurate and timely cable news service out there.

BTW all the VPs I talked to said the proposed cap and trade bill that congress is trying to sneak by will be a disaster of epic proportions on our economy. Not good.