While I have no doubt they’re the largest, we “enjoyed” our Applebee’s experience about as much as we would a root canal. Continue reading
Category Archives: Huh?
The Human Touch
Sometimes we can’t see the forest for the trees, kids. Yep – another Homer Simpson “DOH” moment. Nothing too earth-shattering, but a lesson worth remembering, this time from the Mrs. We had our first child 23 years ago. We made a decision at that time that one of us was going to stay home. Long story short, I worked outside of the house and she stayed home and took on the kids as a full-time job. I built up a network of business contacts; she made friends. Sometimes the categories overlapped for me; there weren’t categories to overlap for her. Continue reading
Filed under Helpful Hints, Huh?, Thinking Aloud
Hiding in Plain Sight
My nieces changed their profile names on Facebook. As I understand it, this isn’t some new form of teenage rebellion – dissociating themselves from their parents by changing their names – but a tactic that many kids are employing to make it harder for them to be found by admissions officers, potential employers, and others whom they might not want looking at their profiles. Given that we live in an age of “open, discoverable, and transparent,” this is kind of counter-intuitive. Or maybe not. Continue reading
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