While chagrined at the day's events, executives at Duff & Phelps take some heart that because of electrical glitches, the bell never actually rang on Monday.
There's just one teensy-weensy little snag in that messaging: The election is actually on Tuesday, six days away.
Two of them, actually: On Saturday night, the nostalgic hip-hop tour Rock the Bells came to town, with a second stage courtesy of the indie-rap tour Paid Dues.
Actually on Wednesday, it was downright Seattlelike, cool and breezy, with a brilliant sky — a reprieve for runners who are left to take advantage of trails usually populated by overcaffeinated commuting bikers, who zoom along dinging horrid little bells and screeching, "ON YOUR LEFT".
So we developed a slide for use at conferences… an e-flyer that we sent out actually on Monday, to a list of people who attended our January meeting… used some of our contacts with some of the other clinical trials networks to distribute to their membership…".
"But I actually shot one on Friday, and now I wouldn't hesitate to buy one".
Heck, it's actually lower than the 2.1x multiplier from Friday the 13th, which actually opened on Friday the 13th over Valentine's Day weekend 2009.
David's incredibly supportive, so actually on a day-to-day basis, there is no material change.
It beat every program actually showing on Friday except for "Numb3rs".
How much consumers actually spent on Friday will not become clear for several days.
Oil futures barely reacted to the news, with prices actually falling on Friday in New York by about 1 percent to $81.20 a barrel.
