Today I registered for a networking event that’s taking place tomorrow night in downtown Syracuse. I received email a little later on saying that the event had already sold out. I couldn’t blame anyone but myself because the email came last week, but I had too many other things going so I didn’t get to [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Sometimes, the pressure of going into another week actually shuts people down. They get the feeling that there’s these five days that are coming up that are going to have twists and turns and pressure that they’re not sure they’re ready for again. It doesn’t matter if you’re management or employee or working for yourself. [...]
Over the last few days I was at Turning Stone Casino in Verona, NY, which is only about 35 minutes from my house, at the HFMA Region 2 Fall Institute. It was actually a joint venture between three HFMA chapters in this state, the Northeastern NY Chapter, the Central New York Chapter (of which I’m [...]
This is going to be a relatively short post, based on my normal standards. Of course we have an election coming up here in America, and one topic that’s big on the list is health care. Since I’m a health care finance consultant, I have to give my little audit on what each candidate wants [...]
A few days ago, I wrote on Twitter and asked a question that has been bothering me for weeks. That question is, if Obama was a Muslim, why would that automatically disqualify him in the eyes of some people. I also added the second question, which is why people who are saying that don’t see [...]
Back in March, I wrote a post on the upcoming Opus Movie, a motivational movie that, in its own way, follows up on
First, the latest issue of the T. T. Mitchell Consulting Newsletter, Good Customer Service Doesn’t Trump All, is available. This morning I was at a board meeting for one of the groups I participate in. I was describing something I specifically noticed at the SOHO Show (Small Office/Home Office), an annual event in the Syracuse [...]
I encountered real poverty head on when my dad went to Vietnam back in 1969. For some reason, when he went overseas we couldn’t live in on base housing; I never learned the reason why. So, last minute we ended up moving to Kansas City, Missouri, to live with my grandmother. When my grandmother had [...]
Tomorrow is Blog Action Day. Its purpose is to highlight the problem and issue of poverty around the world. A Blog Action Day website has been set up to help track everyone who says they’re going to participate in this action. I’ve decided not only to participate, but I’m going to write a different post [...]
I’m basically staying non-political on my blogs, because I figure I have my positions and I know who I’m supporting, and why. However, that doesn’t mean that when there’s something that just doesn’t sit right with me that I’m going to let it go, and I don’t really care who it is at that point. [...]






