11-29-08 Nana Heads 3: Tiara Bob & The Dreamboats reunion Cruise CONTINUED THREAD #7!

[jd99]

Good afternoon Nanaheads.
It's getting cooooooooooold here. All windy and cloudy. Feels like fall. Ick.
Off to the bone doc to see if Miss Elizabeth gets yet another cast.

See ya later.
jeff

 

[lvstitch]

Good afternoon Nanaheads.
It's getting cooooooooooold here. All windy and cloudy. Feels like fall. Ick.
Off to the bone doc to see if Miss Elizabeth gets yet another cast.

See ya later.
jeff

I'm so jealous. It's still 100 here .

 

[jd99]

A surprise top of the page!

 

[pgfour]

Yeah Bob! You tell him! It's not like when WE went to our 4-bedroom, 4.5 Bath cabin with cable, hot tub, fully-equipped kitchen, etc. wayyyyyyyyyyy up in the middle of nowhere!

Well,
we did have to rough it with little to no cell service, musty hot tub, no mirrors in the upstairs bathrooms, AND we had to keep our drinks on ice in the cooler since the fridge couldn't keep up.

 

[jd99]

I'm so jealous. It's still 100 here .

As much as I hate winter, I understand. I lived in southern california for 2 years after grad school and it was never that hot there, but i really did get tired of the sun blazing through the window every single morning. I was there during a huge drought and I longed for one cloudy day.

 

[pgfour]

You can't take Nana points from a founding Nana!

I was around before Nanas were called Nanas, so I think I can.

And don't forget I gave you your Tiara Bob name -- I can it back. So there, hmph!

 

[pgfour]

I will say at least last night's show actually had some elements of reality to it. Those weigh-ins were just like mine.

You have to weigh-in in a warehouse with all your co-workers?

 

[woogal]

Have you started reading Twilight yet? I just finished Midnight Sun...OMG...I really do love Edward

Nope, still trying to finish up Jimmy Buffett, then Twighlight is next. The girl at work I told to read it finished in less than a week and is on the 2nd one already!

 

[woogal]

That's just what one Alan H. Fishman might have thought when he woke up Friday morning.

Fishman was the new chief executive officer for Washingon Mutual — WaMu — the nation's largest savings and loan, which was taken over Thursday night by federal bank regulators and quickly dumped in a fire sale to JPMorgan Chase for the Wal-Mart-like price of $1.9 billion.

But don't cry for Fishman, who reportedly was sky-high — literally — last night, on a flight from New York to Seattle, when WaMu collapsed. Even though he's only been on the job for less than three weeks, he's bailing out with parachute worth close to $20 million, according to an executive compensation analysis conducted for the New York Times by James F. Reda Associates.

That's right, $20 million for 17 days on the job ... and his company failed.

Fishman, who formerly was chairman of Meridian Capital Group, apparently was much coveted by WaMu, which was counting on him to lead the failing thrift out of mortgage troubles that pushed the bank to a $3.3 billion second-quarter loss.

According to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, WaMu threw a $7.5 million bonus at Fishman when it hired him on Sept. 8, and guaranteed him an immediate cash severence of $11.6 million — both of which he gets to keep.

He also was eligible for annual bonuses of up to 365 percent of his annual base pay — set at $1 million — to go with millions of shares of company stock.

Fishman does lose out on a big bonus that would have kicked in had he remained on the job through 2009.

Documents show WaMu was going to pay their new boss $8 million to simply not screw up and get fired — all negotiated as the Seattle-based banking giant's loses climbed to an estimated $20 billion.


Uh, where do I sign up?

 

[pgfour]

Hi Bff-NV!
Hi Bff-OH!
Hi Him!
Hi all other Nanas worthy of Nana points!
Hi Bob!

 

[woogal]

Hi BFF-IL!
Hi BFF-NV!
Hi J-FED!
Hi all other Nanas that don't have bugs up their butts today!

 

[jollyg]

Hi BFF - OH
Hi Greg

Hi Christine

Hi Shell

 

[TiggerKing]

Nope, still trying to finish up Jimmy Buffett, then Twighlight is next. The girl at work I told to read it finished in less than a week and is on the 2nd one already!

Which Buffett book?

 

[woogal]

Old one. Tales from Margaritaville.

Hi Greg

 

[pgfour]

Hi again Greg!

I always seem to miss your green light....

 

[jollyg]

I was around before Nanas were called Nanas, so I think I can.

And don't forget I gave you your Tiara Bob name -- I can it back. So there, hmph!

My goodness....somebody picked up a set of brass balls from somewhere?!

 

[jollyg]

Hi again Greg!

I always seem to miss your green light....

Hi Cheri

Sorry I'm falling behind. I didn't sleep last night and am having a hard time trying to keep up!

 

[jollyg]

Howdy Bob!

 

[jollyg]

What? I finally get caught up and nobody's around anymore?

Guess I'll go see if I can take a nap while Brayden and Holly are napping.

 

[cmom]

Ok what is midnight Sun. DO I need to go to the store again and get another book for the set? Im only on the third one. AHHHHH.