Archive for December, 2010

I was somewhere with my wife where she had to sign a whole lot of papers. It was almost worse than buying a house. There were also tons of other paper and stickers and such that the person had to deal with. It was really weird, and I thought it was overkill. I asked the […]

We’ve had a lot of snow in the Syracuse area over the past week, and there’s a lot more coming, it seems. Because I don’t own a snow blower and didn’t sign up for snow removal services, this means I’ve been outside a lot shoveling snow out of the driveway. It’s a tough proposition sometimes, […]

Earlier today I was reading a news story about a protest that went on in Mexico over the weekend. The protest was for peace, but it had a strange overtone. That overtone was the overwhelming support of the people for a drug lord that had been killed in a confrontation with police on Thursday. People […]

A couple of months ago I was at my consultant’s group meeting and I brought up a question I’d always had issue with. I’m an independent consultant. In my marketing materials, I often vacillate between using “I” or “we”. Most sales studies you do state using “we” without telling you why, and I felt it […]

A couple of days ago, someone posted a link to the video below. It’s terrible that it took me so long to get to it, but when I saw it was 16 minutes long I just said to myself that it could wait until I had time for it. When I watched it I loved […]