Heat

Heat = Hate as in I hate the heat.  I used to think that since the average body temperature is somewhere between 95 and 97 that one wouldn’t be too uncomfortable provided the temperature outside didn’t go much higher than that.  Well yup, that assumption...

Small Talk

What’s worse? A person who talks too much with no chance of reciprocation, or the most boring person on the planet that doesn’t realize he is and yaps all day and night about everything and anything that rates lower than irrelevant and eventually does...

Swimming Lessons

I don’t know how to swim.  I had several chances to take lessons in grade school, but I hated having to wear the navy blue speedo they issued before heading to the pool.  So on swimming day, I usually came down with some nebulous condition to get me out of it....

Scams

There is a lot of scamming and crap going on. Fake charges on cards, getting congratulatory emails about something you have nothing to do with. But the best scam is the phone scam. So this is addressed to those people who make cold calls and what they can do better to...

Competency

Is it even a consideration in the working world anymore?  I mean how bad do you need to screw up before being kicked out the door?   For instance, take a listen to Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.  He’s the headliner in today’s Rolling Stone Magazine....