07:56 – Imagine you’re not only dead broke, but owe the bank $500,000 on a previous loan that you’ve refused to make payments on. So you walk into the same bank, sit down with a loan officer, and tell him that you’d like him to lend you $100,000 more, but you won’t agree to the bank’s terms for that loan and you have no intention of ever repaying it. That’s pretty much the position Greece is in now vis-a-vis its lenders, except that the numbers for Greece are a million times larger. And all this time I’ve thought chutzpah was a Yiddish word.
Barbara’s back to work today. I’m shipping orders and building kits. I have orders for chemistry and forensics kits to ship today. Those are in stock. But I also have an order for a biology kit, and zero of those in stock. So my priorities are to ship the orders I have in stock and then to build another batch of biology kits.