Some over the road truck driver once said that if you become a driver to find something, you won't find it out there. There is nothing on the open road but time to think ( Read more... )

The local NHL franchise, Red Wings, had their season and home openner tonight versus last year's Stanley Cup Champion, who also knocked us out of the playoffs last year: the Ducks of Anaheim. Given that information, do you think we sold-out the Joe? Nope, we didn't. Only got 17,610 tickets sold out of a possible 20,000 tickets. That's only 88% ( Read more... )

Today I was asked to take a position in a different department at work. This department, and what they do, is directly related to me becoming more knowledgable in my special line of work. Because of this, and the whole advancement of my career at a niche consulting firm blah blah blah, it was really pushed on me. Well, not hard but my manager ( Read more... )

The question in my subject heading was asked at the beginning of an Acura commercial. To the right of the question it had a gaggle of answers: never, sometimes, most of the time, always. This was a question, when, I asked myself, I wasn't sure how to answer ( Read more... )

The lease on my current residence is up at the end of this July. So that means I have to give me (sometimes) hard-earned money to the people that own this place only four more times before I can move out without incurring any penalty. That may seem like a long time, and I'm sure its a bit too early to start asking, but it's always good to start ( Read more... )

Here's an idea I had for a commercial to push Nintendo's DS Lite (they don't need try and sell anymore than they do when production can't keep up).

Setting: Somewhat busy subway cars or in a city bus over a span of 5 days.

Characters: Along with extras filling up the subway or bus, one teenage boy, one teenage girl. Both probably around 16 - 24 ( Read more... )

I was compelled by recent news that the Best Buy that once occupied the corner of Dix and Eureka had finally openned in what was the food court of the Southland Mall to think about the strip mall which BB had once been a part of in Southgate. Downriver residents had heard about the potential move around a year ago, so for them to open in ( Read more... )

I'm not sure how many of you actually follow or have any interest in the way that (large) cities exist and their health, so this post may be a bunch of blather about nothing. But I feel I must voice my opinion about something related to it. So here goes ( Read more... )