Ready Or Not… It’s almost here. 2021 looms. With a little free time on holiday weekends, it’s useful to turn off most of the hype-crazy mainstream media. Instead, try doing a “personal performance audit.” Designed to answer key questions. Like? “Did I have a Plan this year?” In the unlikely event you did, “Did you …
-things I learned This Week: Turkey is for Our Convenience Not the calendar’s. We will not be doing the turkey Sunday, as planned (rescheduled from Thursday). Because we both have other things we’d rather do. Messing with a 20 Lb. turkey didn’t sound like as much fun as tossing a pot roast in and letting …
First You Need a Plan I can’t emphasize this part enough. Before you visit another website, turn away from the screen and list the half-dozen things you – YOU (the one with the money) – really want to accomplish in 2021. Steal Your Eyes from Click Bait! Every time you see a “news story” about …
Another Year of Many Turkeys An unusual number have held political office this year. Yet, even after elections (such as those were) we still seem to have a huge flock. So it’s with great anticipation our “Annual Turkey Leftovers” is back again. Picking up the History: Back in 2013. we share the best turkey leftovers …
How BIG is Enough? Did I ever show you my electronics bench? Total Train Wreck: (Fully functional, just looks like hell…) It’s ALL there. Desoldering machine, microscope for SMT parts, even a spetroscope for LED color checking. Thing is, I never get around to keeping it clean and organized. Project overlap. Phones ring. Martini time …
The Best (& Worst) Boss is? US! One of the treasures of being raised in a “firefighter family” is that everyone “worked on the off-shift.” Sure, a lot of union jobs in the 50’s and 60’s were paying enough that one person working in a household could “get by.” But fire, police, and other first …
No matter which side of the aisle: And paradoxically…recommended by a Canadian. Maybe they have better memories, eh?
We had a weird error on the Internet today. Our site here went down (“server crash”) but the strange part was that when it crashed, there is a program we run for added speed which does caching. At the time of the server crash, the ‘snapshot’ taken was a link to Kitco – and now …