Back by popular demand....

The famous Chili Weekend at Doukenie Winery in close by Hillsboro (just west of Leesburg) is scheduled for Jan 25-27. The weather might be chilly outside, but the homemade chilli promises to warm you right up. Enjoy a glass of award-winning Cabernet Franc or the new release of their 2005 Vinter's Reserve. Check it out....www.doukeniewinery.com or 540-668-6464 ext. 201.
Enjoy....

Virginia Wine Tours

Enjoy Virginia's beautiful countryside, award-winning wines and its many, varied vinyards within a thirty minute drive from ther Homewood Suites Dulles North hotel. Reston Limousine
can arrange day or night tours at rates starting at $35.00 per person. Contact them at 703-478-0500 or visit their website at ...www.restonlimo.com for the complete rates and packages.

Holiday Art Show ...

Gallery 222 in downtown Leesburg is pleased to present its annual Holiday Art Show featuring original paintings. The gallery is located on 222 King Street and the show and sale continues until January 18, 2008.

Snow Day

Ok guys sounds like our area might be gearing up for the year's first snow!!
Everyone get your snow gears out.
And don't forget kitty litter for your tires (helps with traction control).

SANTA CLAUS MANAGEMENT TIPS

This week, as we go into the Christmas Holidays, we try and juggle so much in work and family. We may have some "wisdom" from the man in red to help us along:Management speak can be hilarious when it’s applied to non-management situations. Tech guru Jim Carroll — a futurist, innovation expert and author (How to Innovate When Faster is the New Fast; What I Learned From Frogs in Texas) — has posted a witty analysis of the success of Santa Claus’s business model on his website.[Santa’s] operational insight is pure genius (He's organized. He's got a list. He checks it twice. Operational excellence is his middle name.)He’s a fanatic on customer oriented innovation (He knows exactly what the customer wants. There's no other individual or organization who has such deep insight into the customer. And he's had this core focus for hundreds of years.)He is mindful of work life balance (Some people take a few weeks off for a holiday. Some might take off a month. Santa takes off entire seasons.)He’s not afraid of those who are different (Rudolph. Red Nosed. Reindeer. Enough said. Santa has got this diversity thing down to a science.)These are funny, but I’m not sure whether I’m laughing at Santa Claus or the cult of management trying to create a language that can be applied to creations as fanciful as Santa.I mean, can you imagine a management consultant suggesting a CEO use Santa Claus as a role model? And yet Carroll’s list makes more sense than management philosophies based on driving out sentiment from business decisions and that real leaders must be SOBs.There’s more wisdom here than just humour

Turkey is in the Air

Thanksgiving 2007 is just around the corner! This year it's a tad early on November 22. Don't forget to make room in your freezers cause it's time to shop for turkey!
Countdown to Turkey Day is 15...
Have fun!!

Daylight Saving Time

Spelling and grammar

The official spelling is Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight SavingS Time.
Saving is used here as a verbal adjective (a participle). It modifies time and tells us more about its nature; namely, that it is characterized by the activity of saving daylight. It is a saving daylight kind of time. Because of this, it would be more accurate to refer to DST as daylight-saving time. Similar examples would be a mind-expanding book or a man-eating tiger. Saving is used in the same way as saving a ball game, rather than as a savings account.
Nevertheless, many people feel the word savings (with an 's') flows more mellifluously off the tongue. Daylight Savings Time is also in common usage, and can be found in dictionaries.
Adding to the confusion is that the phrase Daylight Saving Time is inaccurate, since no daylight is actually saved. Daylight Shifting Time would be better, but it is not as politically desirable.