I have been trying to catch up on some DVD watching lately….why does Hollywood hate us? Do they really think we are not worthy of their time and effort?

Nothing really to say. Nothing happened today, nothing to rant about except being cold *shrug*

Keys go jingle jingle

I have no heat
I couldn’t find anyone to bring propane
I have a headache
I hate each and everyone of you

Challange time was interesting this week. The teams were to put together an instructional demonstration for The Home Depot of something customers could build. Ok…not being handy myself, I could see where this would be a problem for some of the team members, but was it fascinating to see how it effected each team.

Net Worth – All the team members were gung-ho except for Erin, who was upfront from the get go that she had no clue how to do things like this. There was plenty of other things she could have done, but she seemed to think her lack of tool knowledge just excused her from the whole thing. The rest of the team was jazzed though about their project which was a movable Kitchen shelving unit.

Manga Corp – Craig was project manager, and while he was enthusastic, he seemed to have no easy way of communicating his thoughts to the rest of his team. And none of them were excited about his choice for the demonstration which was just a simple storage box.

So when it came to demonstration time, how did the teams do? Well Net Worth bungled everything about their demonstration. Assembled it incorrectly, didn’t involve the audience and took to long to do it.

Manga on the other hand, who were not hyped about their box project, got into it when they saw how excited the kids got about it. They wanted to be involved and do it with their parents. This in turn jazzed the team, and they performed much better in the actual crunch time.

Winners….Manga Corp. Even though the team was not excited at first, they had to admit Craid stayed true to his vision and it paid off. And HUGE kudos to Kendra for even saying the only person on the team who deserved the reward was Craig. Wow…a player who admits they screwed up. Good for you!

In the boardroom it was refreshing to see George and Carolyn bluntly told Trump that Angie, the project manager for Net Worth, did not deserve to be fired even though she made some poor choices. Wowzers…go lackeys!

So in the end, Trump bluntly told Angie her butt had been saved by the lackeys and it was down to the two she had brought back in with her…Erin, the slacker and Chris the hot-headed tobacco chewer. How do we know this about Chris? Well his team constantly reminds you he is a hot-head and Trump freaking obsesses constantly over the chewing. GET OVER IT TRUMP! Yes, it is disgusting, but there is more going on here. Like all your personal habits are wonderfil *coughhaircough*

In the end, Erin and her slacking ways went…no big loss…adios!

Oh, and on a side note, the Home Depot they went into at the end to announce the winner is on 23rd street in New York City. It used to be the building that housed Hasbro Toys NYC offices and Toy Fair showroom…..that hurt to watch. I loved that building, and have some really fond memories of that building. Oh well…time moves on.

Wow….Ulong won reward challange! Yay…go Ulong! Oh wait a minute…it was only reward. Silly me.

So off we go to immunity challange….oh Koror won that one….what a shocker! At least this time Ulong got rid of James.

There really is nothing else to say. This losing streak of Ulong’s is just depressing.

computer problems tonight…full post tomorrow

I have got to stop waiting until so late in the day to write my entries because this is what causes these stupid, little short entries. I want to hold to my at-least-one-a-day rule, but I am also getting annoyed with how short some of my enteries have been lately.

And also, there has been so much in the media I would love to talk about, but don’t because I like to remain neutral. *le sigh* I am going to have to figure out a compromise of some kind.

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Yahoo! News – Boondocks

I don’t always agree with Boondocks, but their humor about Wal-Mart lately sure has me chuckling.

Yahoo! News – Self-Service Hotel Check-In to Increase

This is either going to be the greatest thing to ever happen to business or travel OR the biggest headache ever. I will reserve judgement until I get to use it once for myself, but I do have some fears of the headaches.

Yahoo! News – Toys R Us Agrees to Buyout Deal

I covered the toy industry for several years as a magazine journalist, so this news fascinates me. In paticular though, this part:

“This is a day that toy manufacturers will be cheering. The last couple years have been bad news for the toy business,” said Jim Silver, publisher of Toy Book and other industry magazines. “This will really make a lot of people very happy.”

Folks..Toys R’ Us was bought by a combination of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Bain Capital and Vornado Realty Trust…Kohlberg, Kravis Roberts & Co are famous for being corporate RAIDERS…not saviors…RAIDERS.

You can not honestly believe they are going to leave TRU in it’s current shape. My bet…they want the land. TRU’s sit on traditonally pretty choice pieces of real-estate. Word is already circulating that at least 200 of the stores will probably be bulldozed. I mean, I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that a realty company was on the three companies involved in the buyout.

This doesn’t help the toy industry…that just solidfies Wal-Mart’s hold on their 30% share of the industry, which will now just continue to grow. Add this into the almost complete collapse of FAO Schwarz, the chapter 11 Bankruptcy of KB Toys, Wal-Mart will just continue to get bigger and bigger.

This is NOT good for the toy industry folks, not good at all.

I hate recap episodes…what a waste of a week! Yes, we got to see extra clips of the Apprentice’s being cry babys…NOTHING NEW THERE! Oh well….guess nothing to really say until next week.