Business Stuff on the eve of a holiday, oh and yes, holiday?

I struggle with Thanksgiving.  I was discussing this down the pub last night with a friend who also wasn't born here. Christmas is my big childhood turkey fest.  I just don't feel anything towards Thanksgiving.  I've a lot of work to do, the business needs clients to make some decisions and the decision making process ground to a halt last week and probably won't start again until Monday.

The window for closing new business is pretty narrow between now and the end of the year.  I might be able to scare something cash generating up from some people, but we've a pretty nasty cashflow crunch in early December.  Having said that, Q1 2013 is looking like a record breaker.  I just need to scare up some money in the meantime. I have some options for that, but one of them is pretty expensive.

Apart from the cashflow crunch, we've had a great run through the summer and we've delivered some great work.  I'm really happy with some of the stuff we've done and it's looking good.  We're still hurting from a customer going under owing us $10,000 and that's really tough to handle, especially when they actually had the money to pay us and didn't.

Something for the weekend/holiday...

Hat tip to Chris chris_gerribfor this gem from the wonderful Rand Simberg.

Apparently the Libertarians have found their real cause.  Fighting for the 100W light bulb.  Why?

I have no fucking idea, but they're really really funny about it.

Poetic Justice...

With the last votes being counted, it looks like Mitt Romney will end up at 47% of the popular vote.

Colour me amused.