Mold Inspector

I nearly jump out of my seat at the cell phone vibration when it alerts me to an incoming call. Every time. In addition to the startled tensing, I usually let out an involuntary “Ungh!” from the back of my throat. If you see me jump and vocalize involuntarily, you know I’m getting a call. [...]

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Wise Decisions …

A few days ago, Sophie, a medical missionary in Ethiopia, wrote these words in her blog: The particularly heart-breaking part of the day came when a mom with twin 4-month olds came.   But you need to hear the beginning of the story first.  2 weeks ago, a mom brought twin babies and asked if we [...]

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Facebook Friend Request

A few of my FaceBook friends: I haven’t ‘penned’ anything for months, it seems. No one’s anxiously awaiting my next missive.  95% of my hits are the results of  searches for “newcastle brown ale” or “froot loops.”  The other five are my regular readers. Hey, newcastle and froot loops people…. how’re you doin’? I forget, [...]

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Do What You Say You Will Do

My very first blog entry (a whole 18 months ago) was a little blurb about how we don’t. Do what we say we will do. Back in CorporateLand when I had the window office and thought people actually listened to what I said and wrote, there was a placard on the wall just above my [...]

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Something to make us all happy?

“Cause I just don’t have the words right now…. Dear Mister Fantasy play us a tune Something to make us all happy Do anything take us out of this gloom Sing a song, play guitar Make it snappy You are the one who can make us all laugh But doing that you break out in [...]

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A Three Year Plan — Yikes!!

The following post was first published in July 2009.  We’re a little over two years into the plan.  Anyone got a guess as to how well we’ve been tracking with the plan we developed? I was scheduled to attend participate in a meeting tonight to begin to develop a “Three Year Plan.” Thankfully, the event [...]

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In Addition to Stupid Flakes….

Back in May, a a judge in Cali (the U.S. District Court for California’a Eastern District) dismissed a complaint filed by a woman who said she had purchased Cap’n Crunch’s Crunch Berries  ’cause she believed that Crunchberries were real fruit. That lady probably saw those commercials where the Cap’n and the Crunchberry monster were vying [...]

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Headlines

Iran opens nuclear fuel facility Iran’s president has inaugurated the country’s first nuclear fuel production plant, making what correspondents say was a defiant speech. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cast doubt on Iranian claims of major progress. “We don’t know what to believe about the Iranian program,” she said at a news conference in [...]

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These Days . . . .

As I was perusing the news yesterday, I noted two articles of some interest. The first was from WSJ On-line and spoke of a certain Russian academic – a former KGB analyst – who, in September 1998, during a conference on information warfare in Linz, Austria, presented a theory that the U.S. would collapse in [...]

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I almost forgot

Festivus is (commonly) celebrated tomorrow . . .

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