Mitch's Blog

My wife has been out of town this entire week. Two weekends before, she was out of town for four days; this time it’ll be eight in total. Over that long weekend she was gone, I didn’t know how to take care of myself, and it was somewhat embarrassing. My wife does a lot of […]

I have a friend that just had a business contract go badly and end abruptly. When she asked what the problem was, she couldn’t get a straight answer from the people other than to say they weren’t happy with the direction things were going. At the same time, even though she was upset at how […]

I can’t believe the amount of spam (and I don’t mean the lunch meat) that’s been coming through lately. What’s even more interesting is the amount of spam that’s trying to come through. For my email, I use a program called Mailwasher. What it does is checks email while it’s still on the server, before […]

I went to an event this morning that’s associated with the consultant’s group I belong to. After the presentation, when most of the people were gone, one of the members asked me an intriguing question. It was “Have you been discriminated against while living here?” My immediate response was “Yes”, but then I asked him […]

Fighting through one of our famous Syracuse surprise snowstorms, I drove 30 minutes of a usually only 5 minute trip this morning to a breakfast meeting of the Greater Liverpool Chamber of Commerce. The host of the event was Verizon Business Services, and they were going to be talking about their Fios service. I’d heard […]