Dammit Dammit Dammit!

I told Bill this despicable Nintendo campaign to undermine confidence in Xbox was going to cost us. And it did. One large. I don't mean a thousand bucks either. We're talking large large. For you non-cognoscenti, that means one billion to us super-rich. Shit! Bach told me he had this under control. New units with some added technical doodad were going to quietly roll into the channel, we'd continue ignoring existing whiners, and everything would be okay. Like that worked. Prick. I should have thrown him under the bus when everyone was clamouring for me to do it. But nooo, I stood by him. This is how he repays me. At least the FAM isn't for a while. I couldn't face that mob of analystdorks right now. And thank God Liddell got onside. When I first approached him about burying the charge in '07 instead of '08 he got all pissy with me. "But Steve, GAAP says this and the SEC says that, blah blah blah". Like I give a flying f#!k, you by-the-book dork. In hindsight, maybe I shouldn't have started things off quoting the old "five-second" rule for eating food dropped on the floor. I guess they don't have that saying in the land where men are men, and sheep are scared. Anyway, we don't pay him the really big green so he eventually came around. As for you Bach, you'd better get your shit together and deliver that profitability we promised this year. And don't expect a big increase in year-end stock grants either. We both know where that money went.