Unknown but Wonderful Vietnamese Food
I have no idea what it is called. You cook meet and wrap tem in the thin round paper like thing with vegetables and noodles that I dipped in the hot water to soften it. I had this in Portland, Oregon. I wish I have something like this in Washington.
Do you know this person?
He is one of the most successful business people that I personally know. He is Mr. Junki Yoshida. We went to meet Yoshida-san, chairman of Yoshida Group, in Oregon. He owns and operates 18 companies including Yoshida Foods, Oregon International Airfreight. He is an extremely busy person, but he always spend entire afternoon. He sits on the board of directors of my company.
He will be involved more with the company that I am creating too. He is coming to Seattle to speak at Seattle Executives Association where I am a second VP. I will get to introduce him tomorrow.
The Great Wolf Lodge
We went on a day trip to Portland Oregon. It is about 180 miles (290km) one way. It usually takes little less than three hours on Interstate 5. About a half way there, there is a place called Tenino and we saw great building being built for last several trips. The place is called The Great Wolf Lodge.
We decided to visit and have breakfast there. It was an amusement park with huge indoor swimming pools and rides. There are a lot of customers. It was a lot more than we were expecting. We had buffet style breakfast ($13 each). We all thought it was an Indian Tribal Casino, but no casino there. We were really surprised by the amount of businesses they are generating being in middle of Seattle and Portland.
No recession there! It is a good sight to see.
On the way back from Portland
I am writing this using my cellular phone.I will post something about this trip tomorrow.
Japanese Tourists in Korea
Last tome I was in Japan, there was a line of people checking in to the flight that is bound for Seoul and Pusan. Economy is a funny animal. Regardless of the financial situation, there is flow of money from the high to low. That is what we learned in college (Economics 101). Let the economy do its thing, it will somehow work out.
Let the private companies be private. There is nothing government can do. If the government can do anything about the economy, Soviet still be a communist country.
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Interesting Marketing Tactics
Is it only me, it sounds like they are so confident that Sergio cannot win, Taylor Made is willing bet on it. I personally use Taylor Made Irons and like them very much. I am thinking about getting r9 Driver, but after seeing this I dont know if I want to buy this.
Washington State
It has a population of 6.6 million. Democratic Party runs the State for a long time. When Gary Lock (I believe he is the commerce secretary for Obama administration) was the governor, the State had balanced budget and 2 billion dollar surplus. After the first term of current governor Christine Gregoire, the State is now facing 9 billion dollar budget deficit. That is $1,363 per person in the State of Washington.
The State government is planning to spend $1,363 that they do not have and pass that on to us by means of additional taxes.
When will the government know that they can not just keep spending money. I know it is for a good cause, but you just dont have the money to do what you want.
I am not happy about all the idiots of the large corporate managements, But the amount of money the government is spending is out of control. We need to do something about this. I know it is not only Governor Gregoires fault that there is 9 billion dollar budget shotfall, but she is in the position to fix it. I hope she will. The governorship is not a popularity contest. I hope she knows that.
As a small business owner, I do not want to pay for any waste by the government.
Sounders FC 3 - Red Bull NY 0
I hope it does not come to the point where city, or county or state must raise tax to support this franchise, which is a private business. We are doing that to Mariners, Sea Hawks and Sonics (they left when we told them we are spending no more tax dollar). Why should our tax be used to help private businesses?
Oh, I for got we are spending our tax money on AIG, CITIBANK, GM, CHRIYSLER Last I check, they are private companies. I am working to make money to pay tax so that idiots at those private companies can get paid huge bonus. What a deal. I would like to be on the receiving end of that transaction. The only way I can do this is to make company big and run it down. Run it down part is somewhat new to me.