Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Do it yourself blues
I am one of those unfortunate slobs who tries to fix his own appliances. It is challenging and does save money, I suppose. But the downside of being a DIYer is getting the parts one needs. This involves a call to a well known department store that shall remain nameless except to say it rhymes with...
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Sunday, November 30, 2008
Aren't we as important as Barbara Striesand?
It must be cool to be a celebrity and have so many people hang on your every word just because you are who you are. You wouldn't have to be thoughtful or right (or even left) or anything responsible like that. Just say whatever you want and thousands swoon in agreement, lambs being led, thoughts...
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
All work and no play
I have worked every day since November 13 th, most of them 9 or 10 hour days. The test series we are doing is very intense. It is a new method and so far we are the only ones to get it to work properly. Needless to say, when that happens and EPA is looking over your shoulder, there is an immense...
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
Auto erotica
Auto industry in meltdown, country to follow? These are hard times. So hard, the top three auto execs flew in corporate jets to Washington D.C. to ask for a bailout. One would have thought maybe they would jetpool as an example to the rest of us on how to be frugal. Well, it looks like congress is...
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Saturday, November 15, 2008
A new call to bare arms
The alarm clock goes off somewhere over our heads, awareness jams itself into our brains. Somehow things will never be the same again. We have arisen from an age when things like this couldn’t happen. The shackles are flung far, but not it seems, far enough. Those who hate wait besides the gate...
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Friday, November 14, 2008
Wag the Blog
An important facet of blogging is to grab the reader by the eye with a good headline. Face it, you are writing in hopes that people will read what you have written. Whether you think you have priceless advice or just want the clicks you have to attract the readers attention. While we’re on the...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Jimi Hendrix and Chet Atkins
Who’s picking and who’s grinning? Ok, I know that was Buck and Roy, but you get the idea. I have always loved the sound of a guitar. I can’t remember a particular song from my early days, but a few reside in a special alcove of my memory. One was a 78rpm record that was a marble colored green and...
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Sunday, November 9, 2008
When will everything start to get better?
I’ll tell you, next spring, summer of for sure in the fall of ’09. I base this on the way the stock market works. You see, they look at sales projections versus actual sales. When projections outstrip sales, Wall Street sees that as a sign the markets are weak or failing. At first blush this seems...
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Thursday, November 6, 2008
Jimi Hendrix, greatest of all time?
Guitar giants are often put up against each other as a topic of discussion, but to watch them in action is an end to the argument. They are all great. Case in point: The Experience Hendrix tour which concludes this week in Seattle Washington and Portland Oregon is a tribute to the man and his music....
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008
History has found us
The question now is, how will history remember us? To put it into perspective, it is political history, so do not expect an end to divisiveness. Now it will be Barak Obama’s turn in the fishbowl of public life. Every word, every gesture, every eyeblink will be scrutinized. Every slip of the tongue...
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