| To sleep, perchance to ... work?
It can feel like not getting any sleep. You work all day, collapse in your bed and dream that you are still working. Then you wake up to find that you really haven't been working. And now you must get up and work again, even though you're exhausted from working in your dreams. Staples Inc. calls this phenomenon "sleepworking." On Thursday, the office-supply retailer released results of an online survey showing that more than half of small-business professionals are "sleepworkers." "Our customers often tell us there just aren't enough hours in the day, so it's understandable that business activity is invading sleep time," said Staples executive John Giusti. Frank Schultz of the Tavern Hospitality Group says he's constantly dreaming of business — which for him means expanding his chain of tony neighborhood taverns.
Getting inspiration in dreamland
A recurring dream is not uncommon. But Donald Meyer's is a bit of a doozy. The St. Cloud, Minn., resident is a number cruncher by day and game inventor by night. And not just by night, but in his dreams. Talk about taking sleeping on the job to a new level. "After a few hours of sleep, my mind is rested, my body's rested and that's when the games want to come," Meyer said. "I'll wake up at 2 o'clock and have this game in my mind. Then I refine it over and over in my sleep over however many nights and catch most of the bugs. At some point, boom, the whole thing is there. I don't talk about it too much because it sounds crazy." Ya think? Still, creativity works in mysterious ways, and it's hard to argue with Meyer's results. His first game, Keesdrow, has garnered honors ranging from a Children's Choice Award in Canada to a "Top 5 Games Award" from Mensa and sold 25,000 units in less than three years.
Fair manager Frenkel dies at 71
John Frenkel Jr., who followed in his father's footsteps as general manager of the Pensacola Interstate Fair, died at his home Monday."He died in his sleep," said Don Schroeder of his 71-year-old brother-in-law. "He had been sick for quite a while. He had a bad heart condition and other medical problems."The Frenkel name is synonymous with the fair, and John Frenkel Jr. was general manager for at least 38 years."He literally took the Penascola Interstate Fair to another level," Schroeder said. "It was one of the top fairs in the country under his leadership. It was a phenomenal fair."Mr. Frenkel's dream was to take over the fair for his father, said Mr. Frenkel's brother, Don, the fair's current general manager."It's been in our blood to take it over," Don Frenkel said.Mr. Frenkel's father, fair founder John Frenkel Sr., died in 1988 at 95.In 1913, there was a fair in Pensacola at the old Kupfrain's Park, but it folded after a few years.Frenkel Sr.
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