First Impressions

First impressions. There’s notoriously so much emphasis put on its importance.  Seems to be a narrow view of a person, compared to two weeks in solitary confinement.  So are we still doing this?  Do we really know who you’re hiring based on the traditional...

Summer Olympics

2024 OPENING CEREMONY TICKETS STARTING AT €9,500 So it’s unlikely I’ll be attending.  I could take a loan out and use the house as collateral.   Just seems a bit … um what’s the word … extravagant.   That’s over $10,000 for us ugly...

Sweep It Under The Rug

Sweep it under the rug means to conceal or ignore an issue rather than confronting it.  Everybody does it.   Taxes and Trump.  Sweep it under the rug.  Not the one on his head, and not the one in his secret documents room. My mother used to sweep it under the rug when...

My Sanity / My IRS

First let’s start by placing my hand on a bible swearing this story is the truth and nothing but. What’s that?  Oh you’re right.  I don’t have a bible.  I’ll go with a quartz countertop. Wait.  I hate this countertop.  It shows every...

A Skeptic of Weight Loss Trends

Right around the time I hit forty, most of me was in pretty good shape.  Decent muscle mass. Consistency on the ceramic throne.  Hair still making an appearance.  Eye sight and hearing like a bat.  But, a little flabulous around the waist line.  Nothing major.  Just a...