Random thoughts, life lessons, hopes and dreams
A couple weeks ago, the National Hockey League (NHL) here in the United States suspended its season. The next day, the players on the team that I follow, The Pittsburgh Penguins, agreed collectively to provide the people who work at PPG Paints Arena, the salaries they would have earned in the five remaining home games.... Continue Reading →
Last week, we received a warning flier in the mail. “You’re TV Equipment is Outdated!” I’ve been getting emails about this for several months. I don’t really care. I switched to Hulu and YouTube TV over a year ago. This mailing called attention to a series of events over the next 90 days, where I... Continue Reading →
It’s time for Linda G. Hill’s double-stuff Saturday, where Stream of Consciousness Saturday meets Just Jot January and we’re left with: “Your prompt for #JusJoJan and Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: ‘last call.’ Talk about the enterprise (sales or service) conducted by the last phone call you received from a business you’re not associated with... Continue Reading →
When I was packing up my office, I stumbled across a few mementos from a period about twenty years ago when I volunteered for our local Junior Achievement (JA) program. I was the leader/teacher for the JA program designed for fifth grade students. I was assigned to a class in a Catholic elementary school near... Continue Reading →
Let’s change this up a bit. I’m going to give you the one-liner, and then you are free to leave. Well, you’re always free to leave, but you know what I mean. If you want the longer-than-one-line story that this one-liner brought to mind, you’re equally free to continue reading. There’s another one-liner near the... Continue Reading →
It may seem ironic for me to be posting on this subject after my typo-ridden SoCS post on Saturday, but I decided on Friday that this would be my one-liner. Faith and I drove from Connecticut to Pittsburgh to meet-up with my brother, who drove in from Iowa. We hung out for the weekend, went... Continue Reading →
Over the course of 42 years in business, I can’t begin to estimate how many sales calls-emails-faxes I’ve received, not to mention the random people who still just show up at the front door with their, “I’m in the building visiting another client…” spiel. I get it, they are in sales and this is what... Continue Reading →
If you follow my Saturday series, you may have heard me mention Corona Beer. I have come to prefer Corona over other lagers, and now I have a new reason to support the brand – the Corona “Losing Blue” can. Corona is brewed in and imported from Mexico. Mexico is a country whose economy depends... Continue Reading →
Wow, a week has gone by and we are back at the bar for Linda G. Hill’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday, and Linda has cooked up quite a challenge this week: “Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “’the last piece of mail you received.’ Talk about the subject of the last piece... Continue Reading →
