Yesterday, I mailed a check to Uncle Sam for $1000.00. It was Q4 payment for self employment tax to keep for being penalized for not paying/withholding enough tax through the year. That sucked, since I had to scrap every cubbyhole to get that much together. Gary Roberts died same day. He was my sister’s first husband […]
My son has begin to post blogs of his mountain hiking adventures and I really enjoying reading them with one exception. His choice of fonts sucks. Here is an example: “my body tells me to “move or freeze … “ My eyesight is 20/70 in my left eye and 20/40 in my right eye. I […]
Rita’s Mom has been here since Thanksgiving. She is 93 years old. I won’t write about her personality. That is best left unwritten. What I do want to write about is getting old. Really old. I consider anything over 90 to be really old. Rita’s Mom is frail. She has this walker she is semi-attached to. […]
Layoffs Got this email from my son this morningL Yesterday I got back from a SQL conference that LEGO paid for me to go to… it was in Vegas. Today I have no job because LEGO abruptly shut down our entire office and laid off over 100 people. I not only lose my job, but […]
Cloud Computing Today it works like this. Tomorrow, it works differently. In the mid 90’s, I made a decision that my staff would get Windows PC’s on their desktop, It was then that I started to develop a theory. My theory has to do with the time it takes humans to adapt […]