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Now, we have all been in a very important meeting with someone who doesn’t care about those around them receives a phone call in the middle of it, interrupting everything. Cell phones, pagers, notebooks, all annoying toys that can interrupt. Well, I just saw something new to screw up your next meeting. What about a talking watch. That’s right. I just found a website that sells talking watches. Get one now and be the first to say your meeting was interrupted by someone’s casio, verbally telling you the time.

I was just thinking. Instead of taking the office group up north to North Carolina, what about going a couple hours south to Orland and having a nice little Disney Vacation. From what I hear you can book some really inexpensive Disney vacations online. I have actually been there several times with the family and we always have a good time so this trip should be something to talk about. I just hope the rest of the office staff agrees.

I have been thinking about doing a little business trip. Okay so maybe its more personal than business. I am thinking about making a business retreat to the Outer Banks. A nice vacation spot to just go and get away from it all. I will invite a couple of the main office staff and see if it goes well. I hear the place is beautiful. It should be fun.

It seems that American Express may be in some financial trouble of their own. American Express (AXP) might have been feeling left out of the government’s $700 billion financial bailout package. But now, as the company’s consumer credit quality deteriorates faster than rivals while the economy falls into recession, it can get help from Uncle Sam. On Nov. 10, the Federal Reserve approved American Express’ application to become a bank holding company. Until now, AmEx couldn’t use the same tools as its rival credit-card companies to raise cash. Under the government’s bailout plan, banks regulated by the Federal Reserve could rely on cheap funding from the Fed and from other efforts by the government to prop up the banking system. Also, these banks can compete for deposits from bank customers, another relatively cheap form of funding. This may be just what AX needs to keep them going. There is something seriously wrong with our economy when the credit companies can’t even get credit.