Wherein we replace the programmatic news decided by the Powers and minion Editors. And instead, we use a “What keywords really matter in my Life?” approach. We’ll give you the idea and you can dial it in to whatever your circumstances are. It’s a reaction to wife Elaine’s sometimes habitual listening to the “all news” … Read More
Some while back, I mentioned that I’d picked up the Chineseum welder model similar to what’s on Amazon – like this one ($28) – which is “similar-to” the very reliable Smith Little Torch which – at $155 – is a shade more expensive. Before my review of the offshore entry, a few words contexting things for … Read More
While our rise as a technical society has exceeded past efforts, over time it seems destined to fail. Not everything is ultimately extensible. Limits to resources is a hard thing for the bacteria in the agar dish to accept. In this morning’s discussion (other than the ChartPack and a few news items weighing on Future) … Read More
My latest adventures in the world of medicine – like a recent nuclear treadmill test – have lit a series of interesting linkages. This morning we raise some fascinating questions about prophesy, the role of hypoxia, and then wonder is sleep apnea exists to “pave the way” into our personal future. This may seem like … Read More
Right out of the box, I’d have to say that there has been tremendous fluctuation in the fate of hobby shops around the world. Covid, all that. Mark Your Calendar Home handy-bastard festival note coming up: National Retail Hobby Shops Association has a big convention set for from Sept 11-14 in Lost Wages. See here … Read More
Our Daily News-to-Use Consumer Tips first. Amazon has a 47% off deal today on broad (chisel tip) black Sharpies. Four pack under $5 bucks. Why? We get the odd box from Amazon and elsewhere around here. So we have taken (when not burning trash) (burn ban is about due, thanks to fire risk out here in … Read More
This is really a report on faddish Accounting, because it drives so much else. Including retirement. Or, given there is a shortage of workers in the country, de-retirement. Jacob Soll’s book The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations provided some of the impetus for the ideas herein. Soll’s next book, Free … Read More
A fellow seeker of the “right path” took me to task overnight for the Monday column opening. Where I wrote “There’s not a hell of a lot to yammer about this morning….” In which he pointed out that Evil is everywhere these days, a Drooler is coming for our guns (and seems fixated on 9 … Read More
(Part 1 of today’s report. Part 2 (Housing report) will be up about 8:15 AM Central) Time to pick up the remnants of the 3-day weekend and roll back to the job – if you’re not yet in one of the Dole Classes. Let’s do a little Future Tripping and lay out some of the … Read More
[Exceptionally long (for the free side). But go ahead, take some time and relax with it… Holiday, and all.] Today’s coffee klatch of day-traders and tool sluts is now in order! Our usual dose of news, but then back out to our shop as the weekend enters its final hours. (Gimme a chorus of “Damn!) … Read More
This being a holiday weekend, we will mainly focus on charts. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty going on. It’s just some of it is below the surface. We will, of course, “scratch that itch” a bit. It’s what we do. We also drop into a reflective mood in a snip from the Reporter’s … Read More
With no major financial stories to parrot, (Dow futures +236) we find ourselves, once again, stuck in “The Investor’s Dilemma.” Which happens when we have “conflicting inputs” for investment decisions. You see, just as the (bicameral) brain often operates like a deadlocked House vs. Senate, and just as duality appears in poetic as compared with … Read More
A synthesis of goal planning and time management styles. Since no one has “enough time” in the world, most “time management approaches” don’t focus enough on how things end up being scheduled in daily life. Apologies in advance – this morning’s report is a 60-page .PDF but after we go through MBO, Pomodoro, and all … Read More