So… the Canadian women’s hockey team is in trouble. For smoking cigars and drinking beer after their win yesterday (jeez, I’m on a real cigar kick with posting, huh?)

Let’s get this straight: it’s ok for baseball players to spray bubbly (and I’m sure at some point, some underage 20 y/o rookie was in on it), and it was ok for Red Auerbach to light up a victory cigar after the Celtics win, but it’s not ok for these women who just won Olympic gold?

Say those words again - Olympic friggen’ Gold.

Maryellen tells me I’m very progressive in my views towards women, and it extends to this as well.

Drink / smoke up, ladies - you earned it.

Ok, this isn’t so much a post about Dracula smoking cigars with Godzilla as it is to prove a point. In other words, this post is a test. A test that has to do with business and marketing. More to come in a few days.

And now, I’m off for the long weekend (I may even smoke a cigar… although not likely with Godzilla and Dracula. That would be kinda cool, though…)

Enjoy your President’s Day Weekend, everyone. I’ll return to this test next week.

Just got done watching The Who perform on the Superbowl halftime show.

Not really impressed - very safe, very predictable. Their 6 most popular songs, squeezed into 12 minutes. Likely just what the Superbowl wanted.

I’d love to see them book Neil Young, and have him say “Screw the greatest hits medley…. here’s 12 minutes of “Down by the River”" 

So I get one of those pieces of mail today (I think it was from GEICO insurance company) that was addressed to “Dan Furman or Current Occupant”. As I looked at that address, I took a moment to think about what that is really saying:

It’s essentially saying “Ok, we’d really like Dan Furman to read this, because he’s a fine individual that we want to do business with. But on the off-chance that Dan is not here, well, ANYONE ELSE will do. Really, anyone living at this address is fine. Tax cheat, axe murderer… whatever. If you’re at this address, even if you’re not Dan, open this up - we want YOU.”

I’m glad Maryellen doesn’t feel this way.

Enjoy your weekend.

Ok, I’m about a month into this sleeping thing I mentioned in an earlier post, and it has been fantastic. It’s made me look at insomnia and the like a little differently. At least in my case.

Quick recap: I had horrible insomnia, which started two years ago when I began “getting up earlier” to be more businesslike in my business.  At least I thought it was more businesslike. A month ago, I nixed that, and followed my heart/body in wanting to stay up until 2-3am, and sleeping until 10-11am.

I’ll fall short of saying “my experience is everyone’s”, but I am also convinced that if one goes to bed / gets up when they really want to, they won’t be as apt to have sleeping problems. I know it worked for me, and I had AWFUL sleeping problems. Because I’d turn to the clock and say “@#$%, I gotta get up in 5 hours. PLEASE fall asleep”.

But now, I look at the clock and say “it doesn’t matter” (because it truly doesn’t), and I fall asleep. Plus, I go to sleep whenever I am truly tired enough to sleep, not when I have to. This is a huge revelation for me - I feel like I hit the lottery.

Now I understand that this is not useful to millions of you out there. You have your life setup where you have to get up at 5am or whatnot to get to work, etc etc. But this is useful to millions of others who, like me, kind of have options. I work for myself - work starts when I get here. As long as I can realistically converse with other people during “some” normal business hours, it makes zero difference if I’m here at 8:30am, or 11am. Let me repeat - it makes no difference.

If you have insomnia, yet can realistically set your life up to follow whatever your body’s natural sleep pattern is, I strongly encourage you to give it a try.