Archive for June, 2011

Last week I had lunch with a friend of mine. We were talking about each other’s businesses and our profile, so to speak, on Twitter. He said that in general he liked things I said, but wished I didn’t concentrate on race as much. I said a lot of things to him in explaining why […]

Today is the 10th anniversary of my officially starting my business. It came 2 weeks after my last “regular” job ended and I had taken some time to think about it. I actually hadn’t come to the full belief that I was going to end up being self employed, even though I was getting my […]

I have met very few people that haven’t complained about customer service at Best Buy. To say it’s horrible would be mincing words. On a post I recently wrote on my other blog, most of the people that commented had stories to tell about their bad customer service experiences while there; it’s not pretty. I’m […]

I have intentionally avoided mentioning anything on Father’s Day for years. It’s because my dad passed away on Father’s Day in 2002, though the date then was the 16th instead of the 19th. I’m not a father, and I probably will never be one. I’m an only child so I’m not an uncle either, although […]

My dad passed away on June 16, 2002 at 4:45PM. That was yesterday, and I knew at 4:45 yesterday that it had been 9 years. I was also contemplating something that happened only 2 or 3 weeks earlier, something that seemed to change my dad, at least in my mother’s eyes, and kind of in […]