“Umm.. Excuse me… Could I get a couple of those bowls you guys have? Y’know, those shallow, black ones?” I heard someone asking around the corner up at the counter while I sat in the dining area of Jack In The Box last night. “WHAT ARE YOU USING THEM FOR?!?” retorted the manager lady in […]
DRAFT CHALLENGE BLOGS: Please create your draft challenge blogs here on the “Crew Corner” page the week-end prior to your challenge or no later than two days prior to your scheduled date. Hey we can spell check now too Woo Hoo 😉 Drafts need to be password protected because we need to be able to […]
It wasn’t a long part of my professional career. It was only a couple of years. I remember the questionnaire I had to fill out when I applied for the job at Countrywide Home Loan’s Full Spectrum Lending Division: How do you feel about sub-prime lending? At the time in 2006, I didn’t even know […]
7 huge reasons why the factory farming industry is seriously flawed (part one)
I don’t do many political blogs, but there’s something going on in West Africa that seemingly no one cares about because I sure haven’t heard about it on either of my two main sources of news: The Rachel Maddow Show and The Daily Show. The situation in Ivory Coast has gone on long enough!! Doesn’t […]
They wouldn’t let me attend Public High School #70. It was the closest high school to my home in Jakarta, but the family I was staying with wouldn’t even send their own kids there, much less the 16 year-old American exchange student trusted to live with them. See, SMA (Indonesian for high school) 70 was […]
One thing I always heard when I was working in retail is that a person is X times more likely to tell someone else about a bad experience they had with a product or business than a good one. I forget how much the X was. I think it varied depending upon how strongly the […]
This week’s BFF #75 Inspiration: “Black Friday Sales” ********************** Another Chance (To Beat the Lines) No shopping done, my sanity spared, so glad “Black Friday” has come and gone. No standing in line, no tempers flared, no aggravation, not from me. For I waited ’till the very next day, time enough to shop for me. […]
Part 2 of 2… Here’s a link to part one. Here’s an archived recording of the show. Personally, I liked the feature that used to be on this player where I can download it as a podcast to iTunes instead of streaming it live. You have to go to the show’s page to get that […]
