I've written before about how I hate Las Vegas. Pretty much every time I've been to Vegas for work in the past several years, I've hated it. Why? Here are Five Things:

• The gambling sucks. Gambling was once the primary draw to Las Vegas. The house always had the edge, of course, but years ago they could be gentle about it. Now they've worsened the ( Read more... )

Inlaws' Anniversary Trip Journal #7
IAD Airport - Tue, 12 Nov 2024, 2:05pmWe're in the process of heading home from our impromptu 5 day trip to visit Hawk's parents in Pennsylvania. We've driven 110-ish miles to Dulles (IAD) airport outside Washington, DC. From here we're flying back to San Jose with a connection in Phoenix ( Read more... )

I've finished the month of October 2024 with 62 journal entries posted to my blog. I thought I'd finish about 60 but then I squeezed in 4 just in the past 12 hours. Technicalities count!

Five Things:

• I once again met my baseline goal of blogging every day. I continue my streak of posting daily for nearly 7 months.
• With 62 blog entries I posted at a ( Read more... )

Wow, it was almost a month ago now Hawk and I made the decision to upgrade our phones. We've actually had the phones in our hands and been using them for a few weeks. How's it going? Although the transition process was ridiculously difficult our new phones are easily a win- and a very inexpensive win- over the phones we replaced ( Read more... )

Season 2 episode 8 of Breaking Bad introduces memorable supporting character, Saul Goodman, portrayed by Bob Odenkirk. Saul is a strip mall lawyer who advertises on bus stops and in cheesy local TV station ads. So why is he so memorable- and why did the writers spin off a multi-season series, Better Call Saul, starring him and his story? It's ( Read more... )

I posted yesterday about 5-day-a-week RTO mandates such as the one Amazon announced a few weeks ago. When a big change is being made it's appropriate to ask "Why?" Why is this change being made? And more specifically, what is the value the businesses are looking to achieve? People all over industry, from CEOs to business/HR consultants to ordinary ( Read more... )

It's in the news today that the last full-size Kmart store in the 50 United States is closing soon. According to this CNN.com article today (and similar on other media channels) the store in Bridgehampton, New York is scheduled to close on October 18. There's a scaled-down Kmart store in Florida, and 4 full-size stores in Guam and the US Virgin ( Read more... )

I was busy with work last week so I didn't have time to watch the Democratic National Convention. I'm just catching up on it now. I watched Night 1 of the DNC (from Monday) on Saturday night. Don't spoil the plot- I haven't read the books!As Night 1 full videos ran some 6 hours I just watched about an hour of highlights. Here are 5 Things I took ( Read more... )

Alaska Travelog #6
Anchorage - Sat, 15 Jun 2024, 4pm

After hiking Barbara Falls and Thunderbird Falls this morning we turned the car around and headed back south- getting back on track with our original plan for the day of driving to Seward, some 125 miles from Anchorage, and stop for a few hikes along the way- except that we were 30 miles on the ( Read more... )

It's been kind of a busy couple months for blogging. I say kind of because while I've posted above my average for April and May there's a lot of stuff I didn't write (yet) because I didn't have time or energy (or both). Let me share a chart since the last time I posted one of those was 3 months ago.


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