Earlier this week I read yet-another Buzzfeed listicle/quiz for amusement, "There Is No Way Anyone Has Done More Than 25 Of These Things Unless They're Over 65". It's in the same vein as a similar Buzzfeed listicle I read (and wrote about) a few months ago. I suggested Buzzfeed retitle that article as It's Official, Gen Z Thinks Anyone Over 40 Is A ( Read more... )

When I drove out to Roseville Wednesday evening ahead of a customer visit Thursday morning I stayed at a Home2 Suites hotel. Home2 Suites is one of the many brands in the Hilton Hotels portfolio. (How many? Hilton currently has 18 distinct brands.) Although Hilton is one of the collections of brands I always check when I'm planning a trip, this is ( Read more... )

Hard Seltzer is a new category of alcoholic drink that has emerged over the past several years. It's often associated with Millennials, the age group that have popularized it & to whom it is generally marketed. If you've heard Millennials talking about drink brands like White Claw, Topo Chico, and Truly- those are hard seltzers ( Read more... )

"Nobody wants to work anymore." That's become a common refrain in the US, especially from people on the political right. It's a catch-all complaint to denote any of an umbrella of socio-political grievances from one's dislike of minimum wage laws, to snide beliefs about public assistance benefits and who uses them, disregard for satisfactory ( Read more... )

Last night I watched S1E4 of The Book of Boba Fett. The series has developed nicely since its uneven start in S1E1. My concern back then was, "It's not clear why I care about these characters" - the main characters Boba Fett and Fennec Shand. If the previous episode started to make their challenges interesting, more than just a series of fight ( Read more... )

Recently we watched episodes 2 and 3 of The Book of Boba Fett. These episodes continue the things that were good about the premiere, particularly the rich visuals and the moody setting, while developing enough of a narrative arc to keep the story interesting. They continue to humanize Boba Fett and introduce new villains and challenges to give the ( Read more... )

As I wrote about my youngest sister turning 40 recently I thought about how the 10 year age difference between us made a difference in how we grew up... and how it didn't. At age 40 my sister is technically a Millennial, while I'm squarely in the middle of Gen X. But she's at the cusp of the Millennial generation; people born just 1 year earlier ( Read more... )

On our hike at Grand Canyon Sunday (see previous blog) very few people on the trail were wearing face masks. Hawk and I carried ours in our pockets and put them on whenever we passed people on the trail as well as when we stopped at crowded spots such as Ooh Aah Point. There, as with Bryce Canyon earlier in the week, we were in a tiny minority, ( Read more... )

An article in my newsfeed caught my eye over the weekend. "Meet the 'Henrys'" it led, and continued about Millennials who make six-figure salaries but still say they feel broke. Source: Business Insider article, 25 Nov 2019. Yes, it's over a month old so it's not really news. I presume it landed in my feed anyway because Apple News has decided I ( Read more... )

I've written a few times about Millennials in the past few months. My posts such as "On The Millennial Murder Watch" were reactions to reading news articles online about Millennials. Well, all it took was clicking through a few articles for the Apple News app on my phone to decide I want to subscribe to Millennial news. Now "Millennials" is one of ( Read more... )