stupid shockmarket
I should blog, as it’s been a while since I have.
The US-led economic meltdown is sucking hard. Shares are down of course, but so is the dollar. For the software business, any American customers who actually pay their bills is great, but for me personally living OS, the baht dropping from 33 to 22 baht/dollar effectively increases my cost of living by 33% unless my maths is wrong. Also, the hardware business is suffering with prices shifting between the time orders are placed and the time they’re invoiced. We’re having to contact some customers and tell them we’re unable to fill their order at the price they ordered at. Bleak stuff.
Rob’s long-awaited suit postage is finally updated status-wise on the Thailand Post website: dispatched from Sydney on Friday. Also some books I mailed to Andrew a week later seem to have been dispatched from Sydney on Friday as well. Ah surface mail. Next time I will know better.
I’ve been watching a show called Mad Men, concerning a Manhattan Advertising Agency in the 1960s. It’s really quite interesting, and very period: there’s a lot of smoking, a lot of drinking, and the women are treated pretty badly by the men in charge. I think it’s on in Australia on the ABC before or after The Hollowmen. Also, The Hollowmen is great. Hilarious show, with many characters you can recognize in real life.
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October 13, 2008 1:25 pm
By Lairdy, October 13, 2008 @ 2:16 pm
I hate to break it to you, but your cost of living has gone up 50%.
Something that used to cost 33 baht, cost you 1 AUD. If the same item still costs 33 baht, it now costs you 1.5 AUD.
By Chuckler, October 13, 2008 @ 2:32 pm
hmm that’s worse. thanks anyway, captain math.