Gobble, gobble

About 12 years ago, I went to work for a company called Creative Solutions with 130 employees. We write tax and accounting software. A few years after that, we got bought by Thomson, which is a pretty large company with about 30,000 employees, based in Canada and with interests in a lot of companies. Still, they mainly do information, accounting and legal stuff.

Just got an email this morning; apparently Thomson is merging with Reuters. It's always hard to tell from the outset what a "merger" is going to be; whether the final company looks more like one or the other, and whether the business units under each will get shaken or not. AFAIK Reuters doesn't have any divisions currently that write tax and accounting software, and Creative Solutions seems to have risen to near the top of the bunch of companies that Thomson owns that do this sort of thing, so I guess we're OK.

Lost & found

I found a wallet by the roadside for the first time today. Really odd since it was out on a rural road in the middle of nowhere; you would only be on that road if you were going to some local house, or if you were lost.

Opened it up enough to find the driver's license, saw that the owner was a woman from Toledo, which is 70 miles away. I had thought it would almost certainly be a local since the road goes nowhere on the way to anywhere. I didn't rifle through it but it looked like it had some cash and a lot of credit cards and such in it.

I dropped it by the cop shop on my way through town a few minutes later. That station is normally unmanned. There was a woman inside cleaning, she let me in, we wrote down some info and left it on the desk for the next officer that checked in to work on.