Toosday

I find it only fair that if I will be sharing my thoughts, that segregating my good and bad ones wasn't fair.  It should be known that I'm not always pessimistic about life or depressed about everything that is the "bay area".  I guess, since I think about work a lot, I should talk about that tooday too.

I did my regular rounds of store hopping tooday, dropping in to see how each of the manager's was doing and how the store's profits and losses were.  Thankful to say that all stores are positive for the month, for now, and this will be a nice, strong five-week September.  However, with the approach of Halloween, long summer nights getting warmer (as they should be cooling, gotta love the bay) and November, December and January are just around the corner I've been working earnestly to improve our branding, company image and push for total standardization all across the board.

We've made progress! If just a little, we have made progress.  I am working directly with Comcast Spotlight Productions to put together a set of commercial spots for next year's campaign as well as getting started on character design and conceptualization.  I know that this will be the best part of my day, working on what I love most (marketing and pr/advertising) so I will need to pace myself along the week to not get too discouraged or tired of constant bullshit that I receive from this company day in and day out.

On a side note, upgrading out employee uniforms is second on the list (only to our website) and should be addressed very soon.  So finding a clothing distributer is on the agenda for the month of October, with a strong hope of having them picked, created and delivered no later than the first week of November (gotta love small budget businesses).

Hey, today I'm not depressed, but I'm not happy. I guess it could be worse.