Cathy Hirko: February 2009 Archives

As I was editing a story today about the candy-maker Necco, I didn't realize it at the time, but I was munching on their Sweathearts candy as I was editing. Necco has been making the candy since before the Civil War.

It's Valentines Day on Saturday, so you are bound to have one of the pink and red boxes of the message hearts somewhere in the workplace. I've seen at least three this afternoon alone.

Don't forget to check out our story on Friday on the candy hearts. It looks like Necco is expanding their offerings. In March they are offering the "Twilight" series message hearts. I guess this begs the question: Is candy recession-proof?

So, my husband read my post this weekend and laughed at me.

He's like, "You don't fly." He's right, I don't fly ... often. Maybe once every two years.

But, I'm telling ya, if I do fly in the future, I'm not paying $7 for a freaken airline pillow!

In the topic of "we probably have too much time on our hands and should be doing more work," I was chatting with the biz folks today about cell phone voicemail.

A pet peeve of mine is having to listen to long voicemail messages.

You know the ones:

A coworker forwarded this Exchange post to me. Looks like a group is getting together to form a 'Friends of Farmers Market' group for the West Market Street market.
They would like local farmers market fans to join and preserve the market. Let us know what you think.

If you want comfort, it's going to cost you.
If I want a pillow on my US Airways flight, I now have to pay for it. There's a fee for pillows on airplanes. To be fair, US Airways is not the first airline to make you pay for it.
No thanks. I'll just bring my own.

It's like a roller coaster of news for Harley-Davidson recently. Now Warren Buffett is buying up Harley debt. Wonder what that means? Check out the story we posted this morning.