Category Archives: Helpful Hints

Mr. Fish

I’m pretty sure I’ve explained my theory that many of the really great food places in this country are not very fancy.  Actually, my friends would tell you I regularly use another term, ending in “hole”, to describe them.   Sonny Bryan’s, Arthur Bryant’s, Dreamland – all great BBQ places, all decoratively challenged (I love euphemisms). Continue reading

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Clean Up Your Act

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I was cleaning out my spam folder the other day and I found a piece of commercial email that had been labeled as spam.  And I know who the culprit is that made that happen:  me! Continue reading

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Phone Insurance

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My eldest daughter is telephonically challenged.  It’s not that she has trouble using a cell phone – she’s got that part mastered.  No, she has issues keeping her cellular lifeline in one piece, out of “liquid”, and in her possession.  I guess this offsets her many wonderful qualities!

When it came time to buy her the latest replacement phone, she opted for a Blackberry.  Bigger, harder to lose, more functional, but way more expensive.  So we opted to pay AT&T the $5 a month to insure the thing in case anything ever happened.  Well, it did and what a revelation. Continue reading

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