I’m thankful for…

Dark blinds that keep the early sun out of my bedroom on a day I can sleep in.
Baby monitors that alert me to nightmares and the honor to cuddle and comfort my daughter through the experience.
Kids’ naivete to just tough it out and do what they have to do (when noses bleed, fingers are squished, [...]

Thanks

On a day where we are supposed to stop, ponder, and give cognizant acknowledgment to the many good things in our lives (but here in America, judging from the size of my newspaper this morning, it is apparently about planning our shopping day for tomorrow), let be the voice crying in the wilderness begging you [...]

Starting up

I’ve been asked to review some taped presentations of some technical presenters.  I’ve been shown their guidelines — it’s pretty minimal.  The sponsor of the program wants it “interesting”, “exciting”, “informative”, and “imminently applicable to the layman watching”.  I wasn’t sure what to expect.

The people knew their stuff — that was clear.  The slides all [...]

Apology excepted

Seth Godin brought to our attention the issue of people apologizing before their talks. I’ll rate this a TTPP (Top Ten Pet Peeve), and generalize further.
It’s not just about egregious time overshoots, but any element that requires the perceived need to apologize:

“I’m sorry I’m so scattered”
“I’m sorry you can’t read this”
“I’m sorry I don’t [...]

New bank looming

I find online that I have a service fee from my bank:

Clicking ‘more info’ I find out that there was only one fee and the total is correct:

How comforting. This will be the sixth time this year and second month in a row I’ve had to go in to discuss “service fees” with them. [...]

We’re sorry, no fries

Keeping with our Sunday night tradition, we went through the drive-through of a well-known fast food restaurant that shall remain nameless, but it’s image is led by a red-haired girl named Wendy.  We order the same thing every week.  We’re fairly habitual about it.

Tonight the unseen voice cut me off before I could get “#2 [...]