Checkered Lounge Pants

Hmmm, where did the summer go?? She just flew by eh? I will tag this my "healing summer" or my "crash summer" or just "summertimmmme and the living is easyyyyy" LOL. My folks dropped in for a visit and, leave for home today. That, along with Da Gar visiting on his Hawg, and my run to Boston to see the new grand kid made for a sweet summer..hey, that's it! Why commemorate the summer to tumbling on my Hawg when I can commiserate a closure with a "Sweet Summer"? O yaaa! Global climatic gaffes and political slip-ups aside, it was a gorgeous season in my region. The harvest is here and the crops are plentiful and the bounty abundant. I have been hitting the fruit stands like mad filling up my Dad on his beloved tomatoes, and, scoring big on the ingredients to inspire Mom to cook up a storm of homemade favourites like cabbage rolls and pies. My neighbour organized a tour of his families massive greenhouse operations and the folks were guided on a

Expense abuses rampant at OLG: documents Shared via AddThis Quite frankly, I wonder why all the surprise about the conduct and the opulence in this "culture of entitlement"!! This behaviour is common course and general practice in the board rooms, limos and private jets of the vast majority of corporations. The only appalling aprehension, in this instance, is the realization THIS cash string is tax dollars instead of investors dollars. I dedicated almost a decade to negotiating contracts with national and multi-nationals and the entitlements were far more excessive and obscene in the private sector corporations than crown corporations, I was dealing with. This culture is one of the executive communities dirty little secrets, that's not so secret anymore. I recall a story from my associates, about one of the multi-nationals, when we were together berating the paradoxes of cost cutting in the field operations while senior level managers were gallavanting around the continen