Took the truck to work today, planned on getting it inspected because it’s like 3 months expired, but never ended up doing it, so I guess it’s going to have to happen tomorrow.

Worked all day, from 1 until now, 2:05AM, but it feels like it’s 10:00PM.  Not sure what happened.

Craig stopped by today on his way in from Boston, and Syd stopped by as well.  Craig and I went to get coffee.  I never ate lunch, or dinner, again, not sure what happened there.

Luis and I spent the last 5 hours talking about so many levels of stuff.  We have a lot to do with our futures, not sure exactly how we are going to find the time to be the superstars we plan on being.

I went to Shaw’s to grab some groceries, and had a coffee at Starbucks.  Ran into Kimberly and Fran at Shaw’s.

I sent out an email for estimates on the bathroom remodel to 5 different construction companies, 3 replied so far.

The market sent another clear signal that the entire planet’s economy is FAR from being even remotely in the positive. Continued economic problems sent the Dow on its second largest slide in recorded history, with the largest being only 2 weeks ago, and the third largest; last week.

The Dow tumbled 733.08 points, or 7.87%, to close at 8,577.91 on Wednesday. In addition to this being the Dow’s second largest point drop, it was the blue chip index’s biggest percentage loss since Oct 26, 1987, which followed Black Monday on Oct 19, 1987.

The Commerce Department released abysmal retail sales figures, showing a decrease of 1.2% last month, the widest decline since a fall of 1.4% in August 2005. Analysts were expecting a drop of only 0.7% for September.

My sales are down 20%.

With consumer spending accounting for two-thirds of total economic activity, the new retail figures are a strong indication that we are, for all intents and purposes, in a recession. The technical definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth as measured by the gross domestic product (GDP). One more and we’re 100% in a textbook proven recession, and I guarantee it will happen.

More bad news came from the Fed with the release of the Beige Book report, which stated that the economy continued to worsen in early fall as financial and credit problems spiraled out of control. The report hit Wall Street on the heels of Ben Bernanke’s comments, indicating that the credit market rescue will not instantaneously shock the economy back into good health.