Once you get to a certain age you have to start checking and watching your sugar. For some this age comes early in life with a diagnosis of diabetes and for others it comes when you “approach 50.” Rest assured, if you life long enough and actually have to go see a doctor at some point, this task is in your future if not on your daily to-do list already. One thing I have yet … Fast vs. Slow CaloriesRead more
Thank You Sir May I Have Another
Tales that just make you want to scream and other humiliating kicks to the crotch.
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If I Only Had Time to Focus
How many times have we all said that? I would complete “thing x” if I had time to focus on it. Sadly, it is a lie we tell not only ourselves, but to others. Today, October 30th, 2013, we had yet another HughesNet outage. No matter what those commercials say about Gen4 and its “customer satisfaction” I can tell you J.D. Edwards never talked to me or anyone I know. The phone number for HughesNet … If I Only Had Time to FocusRead more
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My Shoes Are Too Tight
There are many “learned” egg heads out there who will give you rules and charts for ranking that which gets shown on television. Not surprisingly, most of the really popular shows rank really low when it comes to writing. I guess that is why we can enjoy weekend “marathons” of said shows because people have an incredible ability to consume oatmeal. Don’t get me wrong, I love the NCIS stuff. I even watch some of … My Shoes Are Too TightRead more
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Round-Up Ready Cocaine Syndrome
Quite some time ago, back when I used to blog for “the Fool”, I wrote a post about how farmers were going to have to dust off their Weber Weeders and start walking soybeans again. I was lambasted by people who had just stumbled out of a coffee shop. (Coffee really is the beverage of life’s losers.) They were even more outraged when I told them 2-4d quit working years ago and 2-4d ready soybeans … Round-Up Ready Cocaine SyndromeRead more
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Ethics in Income Act
Many years ago, we had news stories about someone occupying a chair at a major brokerage firm for six months while “the board” searched for a full-time candidate. After attending only a handful of meetings, this individual pulled the ripcord on a $360 million dollar golden parachute. Needless to say, the blue- and white-collar workers who had retirement accounts holding mutual funds managed by said brokerage firm were immediately crying foul. The brokerage firm brushed … Ethics in Income ActRead more