Posts by Jim

Have you ever had a day which was composed entirely of polar opposites? I got up yesterday at 4 AM.  It was our 4th Saturday of the month breakfast up at the Masonic Lodge I belong to.  We usually feed between 80 to 120 people.  Now you may think that sounds horrible to get up that early and work your butt off for six hours or so, but actually I enjoy it.  Don’t get me wrong, the 4 AM part I’m not loving, but I enjoy all...

So the other day I get home to find my wife is entertaining company – no – not that kind of company.  This was not a shotgun, bag of lime, shallow unmarked grave kind of moment.  It was one of her school teacher friends.  The problem is that they were in my master bathroom.  Now before you get it in your head that it seems a little odd to be entertaining in the master bathroom, I should explain that we just had the...

Let me begin by saying that I am not an automotive mechanic, nor have I ever played one on TV.  I know where to put the gas in, check tire pressure, change a tire, and if absolutely need be – change my oil – pretty much the sum of my automotive expertise.  I came to the delightful recognition that the passenger side front door lock of my truck was not working when I locked my truck.  How long I have been walking off from...

Why can’t people wait?  Every day when you go out on the Internet or turn on the TV, there is some news about some upcoming movie.  There is hardly a day that goes by without an update on the Age of Ultron or the Batman versus Superman movie.  You know what?  I don’t want to have already seen the movie before I go to the movie.  They start putting out clips one after another.  Have you ever gone to see a comedy, and after...

You know that no one likes to be made obsolete.  Every day you hear someone mention some job that has been taken over by a robot or some other form of automated process.  We want everything faster, cheaper, and if possible – controlled by an app on our Smartphone’s.  There is a price for getting what we want, and it means that some people will get left behind, if they cannot be educated to perform a new function. None of...