Somebody at the Oregonian watches the Simpsons. I was perusing the classifieds the other day and saw a dozen or so ads in the “Tree Services” section. Two, however, were prominent and next to each other: One for a Mr. Tree and the other for The Tree King. +1 to my nerdliness for recognizing the joke; well played by an intern at the Oregonian I am guessing.

The CEO is coming up from underwater and will have much more for you here soon. The last week or two has been fairly insane for me, what with the CFO’s brother’s wedding, the CFO working late, the kids being sick, my work (my employer announced a new CEO today; as you might imagine there has been some tumolt in the Kjel.org CEO’s workplace lately) and everything else going on in the world (I’m looking in your direction, Chosen One aka Pres-elect Obama). Anyway, back to normal soon.

Everyone should please remember to keep Saturday Dec 6th open . I will be there when it opens at 11:00. I hope to see all of you.

Oddly enough I have also been asked to lead a “team-building trip” to the same beerfest earlier in the week, and be responsible for the mug and ticket buying for our office. Weird how those sorta things work out. I will do my best to lead the event, but if we just so happen to have any spare tickets left over after the exercise is done who knows what will happen to them . . .