I also hope you can "recharge" MB.

LOL

I will be fine in the morning. I am hoping it will slow down a bit tommorrow. I still have to pack for a camping trip on Friday. My batteries should be fully recharged by the time I go back to work.

The only thing keeping the paper I work for afloat is U.S. tax dollars. We lost $3.5 million last year and they are dumbfounded about how it could happen. Yet there are very few signs of this "paper" adapting.

A friend stopped by this morning and we played around with a few ideas for a story illustration. I think this is the concept we are going to work with. What does it say to you?

OH CRAP!

Looks like a man contemplating suicide.

Why are you "crapping" Skunk.

Seriously, it COULD say many things. My above post of course but also a "If I could only go back I would change what happened".

It could also say "I never thought it could happen to me". And there are a multitude of other things I can't think of.

That's what HE'S thinking, Not me.

I'm sorry to hear that.

Most of the big newspapers and magazines had a "wait and see" attitude, as technological shifts were occurring. Their plan was to watch and see which ideas were promising, and buy those companies up, when they seemed worthy. The papers were taken by surprise when those companies, such as Google, Amazon, Yahoo, etc., rapidly became far more valuable than the newspapers, so the newspapers couldn't buy them.

And, as for the notion of those papers innovating for themselves, instead? Like you said, they were content. The newspaper model had been stable and profitable for more than 80 years, and they assumed it was timeless. Meanwhile, they placed incompetent boobs at the head of newspaper companies, due to family relations with the paper's founders.

When the tide of change came, they were completely unprepared to adapt.

I would also think about another wasted life, a life that could have been a productive member of society and perhaps actually done something GOOD for the world.

Supposed to be a PTSD illustration, but suicide is all we could come up with this morning