Tag Archives: advice

No, You Don’t

Nuevo Kindle de Amazon

Some of you may be aware of the controversy Amazon has caused by deleting copies of a book from customers’ Kindles. Ironically, it’s the Orwell book “1984”, where Big Brother is always watching. But this post isn’t about that. Instead, it’s about a quote that appears at the very end of a piece the NY Times wrote on Sunday. Continue reading

Leave a comment

Filed under Helpful Hints, Reality checks, Thinking Aloud, What's Going On

Insurance

Midtown Manhattan, New York City, from Rockefe...

We moved the eldest daughter from one apartment to another in NYC over the weekend. While she hasn’t yet accumulated the vast amount of “stuff” we all do over the years that necessitate bigger and bigger spaces to contain it, she had enough that we needed to rent a truck to move it 60 blocks uptown. And that’s when the fun began. Continue reading

Leave a comment

Filed under Uncategorized

One Simple Question

Picture of an authentic Neapolitan Pizza Margh...

We ordered some food last evening from a local Italian restaurant since we were all kind of busy, wiped out, or both.  I phoned in the order which we picked up not long thereafter.  In the order was some extra food, which surprised me, but apparently it was compensation for the fact that parts of the order were messed up (Hey! When we ask for mushrooms on the pizza it’s because we want them and no one here ordered a white pizza!). Continue reading

Leave a comment

Filed under Helpful Hints, Thinking Aloud